Christoph Wigelbeyer

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Christoph Wigelbeyer, 2008

Christoph Wigelbeyer (* 1973 in Wels , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian choir director , conductor , singer and music teacher .

Life

Wigelbeyer graduated from singing school, piano and violin in his hometown and at the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz as part of the Upper Austrian promotion of young talent . This was followed by a teacher training course for music education and instrumental music education with a focus on singing and choir conducting, as well as a three-year solo singing training at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw), in addition he completed master classes and private lessons. In his diploma thesis in 1998 he portrayed Ernst Ludwig Leitner, who was also born in Wels . A year later he also wrote an article about Leitner in the Austrian music magazine .

He sang in the Vienna Chamber Choir and the Wiener Singverein (directed by Johannes Prinz ) and in the vocal ensemble Company of Music (directed by Johannes Hiemetsberger ). He can be heard on the piano on Nancy Van de Vate's 1998 album Vol. IV together with Elke Eckerstorfer and Sybille Bouda with the piece Contrasts for two Pianos, six Hands (1984). With Eckerstorfer he also played the Small Suite for Twenty Fingers op. 61b by Iván Eröd on a CD published in 1997 by the Music Education Department at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

From 2006 to 2008 he was a member of the vocal ensemble Mainstreet and was part of the ensemble at the farewell concert on December 21, 2008 in the Vienna Metropol . In 2010 he founded the youth choir pro.vocant, which he directed until 2013.

Since mid-2013 he has been leading the youth choir “Neue Wienerimmen”, founded by Johannes Hiemetsberger and Jürgen Partaj, with around 80 singers, which is a project of Jeunesse Austria . Together with Hiemetsberger, he was previously responsible for the choir rehearsals for the accompaniment of the 2013 spring program of the Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra (SJSO) by the “New Vienna Voices”. The “New Viennese Voices” also performed at the Hollywood Film Music Festival in Vienna from 2012 to 2016 and were performed under Wigelbeyers and Jürgen Partaj's direction in January 2017 at the Vienna Chorforum with the program “Austria: Big Daughters, Big Sons!” Awarded Choir of the Year 2016. Other projects of the choir under Wigelbeyer's direction include appearances at the opening of the Vienna Life Ball (2014 and 2015), at the Expo 2015 in Milan , at the opening of the Carinthian Summer 2016 and at the Liszt Festival 2017 in Raiding .

Wigelbeyer is a full-time teacher and choir director at the BG & BRG Vienna III (Boerhaavegasse) . The upper level choir received the rating “very good” under his direction at the Federal Youth Singing 2007 and was subsequently allowed to participate in the performance of the compulsory piece, a cantata specially composed by Herwig Reiter for the occasion, at the final concert in the Bregenz Festival Hall .

He is also a lecturer at the Institute for Music Education Research, Music Didactics and Elementary Music-Making at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.

Fonts

  • Ernst Ludwig Leitner. A portrait. Diploma thesis in music history, University of Music Vienna, 1998.
  • Ernst Ludwig Leitner: "As white as snow, as red as blood." In: Österreichische Musikzeitschrift, Volume 54, Issue 7–8, 1999, pp. 40–41.

Sound recordings

  • 1997: Iván Eröd - Small Suite for twenty fingers op.61b (with Elke Eckerstorfer; mdw / Musikverlag Doblinger ; CSM 9740-AI)
  • 1998: Contrasts for two Pianos, six Hands (1984; recording with Elke Eckerstorfer and Sybille Bouda) on Nancy Van de Vate - Vol. IV (Vienna Modern Masters)
  • 1999: Franz Liszt - Via crucis • Missa choralis (singing in the part Missa choralis ; Carus )
  • 2009: Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein: Mass (vocals; Chandos )

film records

(originated during his time as artistic director with the choir "Neue Wienerimmen")

  • 2013: Hollywood in Vienna - "On to New Worlds" & A Tribute to James Horner
  • 2014: Hollywood in Vienna - "Comedy Tonight" & A Tribute to Randy Newman
  • 2015: Hollywood in Vienna - "Tales of Mystery" & A Tribute to James Newton Howard
  • 2016: Hollywood in Vienna - "The Sound of Space" & A Tribute to Alexandre Desplat

Web links

Commons : Christoph Wigelbeyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ in the list of contributors on the album Vol. IV. Often mistakenly de Nancy Van Vate as Christoph Wigelberger referred
  2. ↑ Christoph Wigelbeyer: Ernst Ludwig Leitner. A portrait. Diploma thesis in music history, University of Music Vienna, 1998.
  3. ↑ Christoph Wigelbeyer: Ernst Ludwig Leitner: "As white as snow, as red as blood." In: Österreichische Musikzeitschrift, Volume 54, Issue 7–8, 1999, pp. 40–41.
  4. ↑ a b Christoph Wigelbeyer. New Viennese Voices; accessed on January 16, 2018.
  5. ^ Chamber Music, Vol. IV. At Rate Your Music .
  6. ↑ William Thornton. In: Pan Pipes. Sigma Alpha Iota Quarterly, Volumes 87-88, Wayside Press, 1994, p. 43. ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  7. ^ Sound carriers with individual works by Iván Eröd. In: discography. Iván Eröd; accessed on January 17, 2018.
  8. ↑ The Main Street Time , Willi Dussmann; accessed on January 17, 2018.
  9. ↑ SYSO Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra - spring tour in 2013 with concerts abroad. Press release by the Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra on presseportal.ch, April 24, 2013.
  10. ↑ Jelena Pantić: "Suffering is the same everywhere, regardless of whether you believe in God or in Allah." (With an excerpt from the interview by Julia Ritter with the choirmaster of the Neue Wiener Voices, Christoph Wigelbeyer); In: biber 11/17, 23 December 2017.
  11. ↑ Wolfgang Steiger: New Vienna Voices - Choir of the Year 2016! New Viennese Voices, January 26, 2017.
  12. ^ New Viennese Voices: Dates at a Glance ; accessed on January 17, 2018.
  13. ↑ Great success for the HIB Upper School Choir. In: Art and Ability. BG & BRG Vienna 3 (HIB) Boerhaavegasse.
  14. ↑ CD discography. In: Iván Eröd. Works by / Music published by Doblinger. Musikverlag Doblinger, p. 23.
  15. ↑ Hollywood in Vienna - A Tribute to James Horner. Wishlist.de. In: Wishlist.de. imfernsehen GmbH & Co. KG; accessed on January 17, 2018.
  16. ^ A b New Viennese Voices in the Internet Movie Database
  17. ↑ Hollywood In Vienna: Tales Of Mystery & A Tribute To James Newton Howard. ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmmusicmedia.com archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Film.Music.Media; 5th November 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Wigelbeyer, Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wigelberger, Christoph (incorrect spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian choir director, conductor, singer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH catfish