Johanna Beisteiner Premio Teatro della Concordia 2016

Beisteiner Johanna Live in Budapest 24-10-2009 Foto culturawiki

Beisteiner Johanna Bernabe Paulino senior junior workshop Madrid Oct2000 FotoCulturawiki

Johanna Beisteiner (born 20 February 1976) is an Austrian

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ist,

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and

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Life

Johanna Beisteiner received her first guitar lessons at the age of nine at the

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music school in her hometown

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. In 1992, when only sixteen years of age, she became a student at the

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, from where she graduated as a concert guitarist as well as a

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with a PhD Thesis on ''Art music in figure skating, synchronized swimming and rhythmic gymnastics''.
Johanna Beisteiner is an internationally active guitar soloist and singer, her repertoire contains music from the 15th to the 20th century as well as

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. Inter alia she played several world

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s of works by the composers

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and Eduard Shafransky. Moreover, she worked with known orchestras such as the

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, Sochi Symphony Orchestra, Graz Chamber Philharmonic and Budapest Strings Chamber Orchestra, renowned conductors such as

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, Béla Drahos,

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and Oleg Soldatov and the Argentine

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dancer as well as

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Rafael Ramirez. In addition to her numerous recordings for

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, she also appeared in television and radio productions for ''RAI 3'' (

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), ''Channel 4'' (

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) and ''Bartok Radio'' (

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) and recorded soundtracks for movies.''Biography''.
Biography on the official website of Johanna Beisteiner. July 2011. In 2012 she composed her first own piece ''Zemlinsky's Night'' on themes by

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.
In 2017 Beisteiner was invited by the

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to give concerts at

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as well as

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with works by Reuben Pace and Johann Sebastian Bach. In 2018 she was selected by Reuben Pace as the interpreter for the world premiere of his ''Mdina Suite'' for guitar solo at the

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. In the season 2018/19 she played her own arrangements of Renaissance works in a program on

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at the

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in Vienna and sang in a duet with the actress and singer Katrin Stuflesser. As part of her solo concerts in recent times, Johanna Beisteiner interprets also

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s (e. g. by Schubert or Mozart) and accompanies herself with specially developed playing techniques. In October 2022 she went on tour in the

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with performances in New York City, Washington DC and Durham (North Carolina). During this concert tour, she presented her one-woman show ''Farkas in America'' ― a combination of recitation, music and flamenco dance ― at the

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and at the PSI Theatre of Durham Arts Council. This one-woman show was based on the book of poems ''Farkas entdeckt Amerika'' (en: ''Farkas discovers America'') by the Jewish-Austrian comedian Karl Farkas , who ironically described in this work his escape from the Nazi regime via France and Spain to the USA and his life there from 1938-42. Beisteiner also gave a solo concert at the

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with songs by Schubert and Mozart and works for solo guitar by Pace and Albéniz. Beisteiner plays on classical Spanish guitars made by

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and

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Honours and awards

*2008: Crystal trophy '' 200 Years Teatro della Concordia'' (

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) *2011: Honorary Membership in the '' Association Hohenschönhausen Castle'' (

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) *2016: '' Premio Teatro della Concordia 2016'' for Beisteiner's own composition ''Don Quixote Fantasy on themes from a ballet by Minkus''

World premieres

Works by Robert Gulya

*2000: ''Fairy Dance'' for guitar solo *2006: ''Capriccio'' for guitar and piano *2007: ''Night Sky Preludes'' for guitar solo *2009: ''Concert for guitar and orchestra''
Sample of first movement
performed live in 2009 by Johanna Beisteiner and the Budapest Symphony Orchestra conducted by Béla Drahos (Video published in 2010 by

Gramy Records Gramy Records is a Hungarian record label specializing in jazz, world music and classical music. The company was founded in 1999 by Attila Egerházi.

). *2009: ''The Milonguero and the Muse'' (Tango), second version for flute, guitar and string orchestra
Sample
of this tango performed live in 2009 by Béla Drahos, Johanna Beisteiner and the Budapest Symphony Orchestra (Video published in 2010 by

Gramy Records Gramy Records is a Hungarian record label specializing in jazz, world music and classical music. The company was founded in 1999 by Attila Egerházi.

) *2010: ''Waltz'' for guitar solo *2013: ''Nutcracker Variations'' for guitar and string orchestra

Works by Reuben Pace

*2017: ''Concertino'' for guitar, harpsichord and orchestra

Works by Eduard Shafransky

*2004: ''Requiem for guitar'' *2007: ''Caravaggio oggi'' or ''Reflections on a painting by

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''
Sample
(Video published in 2010 by

Gramy Records Gramy Records is a Hungarian record label specializing in jazz, world music and classical music. The company was founded in 1999 by Attila Egerházi.

) *2007: ''Night in Granada'' *2009: ''Old quarters of Alanya'' *2009: ''Songs of breakers''

Discography

CD

* 2001: ''Dance Fantasy'' * 2002: ''Salon'' * 2004: ''Between present and past'' * 2007: ''Virtuosi italiani della chitarra romantica'' * 2012: ''Austrian Rhapsody'' * 2016: ''Don Quijote''

DVD

* 2010: ''Live in Budapest''

Soundtracks

* 2005: ''Truce'' * 2007: ''S.O.S Love!''''S.O.S. Love!''. Article on the IMDb website. 2007
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Bibliography

* ''Art music in figure skating, synchronized swimming and rhythmic gymnastics / Kunstmusik in Eiskunstlauf, Synchronschwimmen und rhythmischer Gymnastik''. PhD thesis by Johanna Beisteiner,

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2005, (German). The PhD thesis contains, inter alia, an analysis of the film

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(Chapter II/2, pages 105-162) as well as extensive descriptions of several competitive and show programs to

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and

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Article about the PhD thesis
of Johanna Beisteiner in the catalogue of the Austrian Library Network. 2005. (German and English)

References

External links

Official website
of Johanna Beisteiner

of Johanna Beisteiner on the website of

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*
Biography
of Johanna Beisteiner on the website of ''Kultur Tirol''. 2011. {{DEFAULTSORT:Beisteiner, Johanna 1976 births Living people Austrian classical guitarists 21st-century Austrian singers 21st-century women singers Austrian music arrangers People from Wiener Neustadt Women classical guitarists 21st-century guitarists 21st-century women guitarists