Elisabeth Kropfitsch

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Elisabeth Jess-Kropfitsch is an Austrian violinist and music teacher .

Live and act

Elisabeth Kropfitsch received violin lessons with Alfred Staar (1938-2000, member of the Vienna Philharmonic ) and was in 1975 at the age of 12 years in the master class of Wolfgang Schneiderhan at the Vienna Music Academy added, where she completed her violin studies until 1985 and the diploma with Awarded. It was there that he graduated as a Magistra Artium in 1986 .

Kropfitsch was the winner of several competitions. She appears as a soloist with well-known artists and orchestras such as the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg , the Basel Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Philharmonic, the Lucerne Festival Strings , the Rome Symphony Orchestra, the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Symphony Orchestra .

Together with her siblings Johannes Jess-Kropfitsch (piano) and Stefan Jess-Kropfitsch (cello), she forms the Jess-Trio-Vienna , with whom she has given concerts around the world - including at the Wiener Konzerthaus , the Berlin Philharmonic , the Wigmore Hall , the Carnegie Hall , in the Lincoln Center of the Tonhalle Zurich as well as in Warsaw, China, Japan, Korea, America and Israel, also in the context of international music festivals such as the Wiener Festwochen , the International Music Festival Lucerne , the Bohuslav Martinu Festival Prague, the Bregenz Festival and the Copenhagen Summer Festival .

After she was the assistant to Eduard Melkus , Jan Pospichal , Igor Ozim and Michael Frischenschlager after completing her studies , she led a violin class as a music teacher at the Joseph Haydn Conservatory in Eisenstadt from 1996 and taught chamber music at the Joseph Haydn Institute of the Vienna University of Music, where she joined in 2008 habilitated at the Institute for String and String Instruments and has been a university professor for violin since 2011.

Memberships

Kropfitsch was a member of the music advisory board installed at the Federal Chancellery and a board member of the first Austrian Chamber of Women Orchestra. She is also artistic director of the classic muerz concert series in Mürzzuschlag and member of the board of ESTA Austria ( European String Teachers Association ).

Discography

CD releases were made at EMI, Sony, Gramola, Hungaroton and others. a. Works by Fritz Kreisler with the violin King George 1710 by Antonio Stradivari and live solo, orchestral and chamber music recordings from Giuseppe Tartini ( Devil's Trill Sonata ) to Rainer Bischof (violin concerto) with her own Violin d'Elia 1751 by violin maker Giambattista Guadagnini .

literature

  • Ewald Kropfitsch: Jess to the music - from the beginning to the 1,000. Concert . 1995, ISBN 3-85326042-X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e E. Kropfitsch | Fritz Kreisler Institute for the concert field of string instruments, guitar and harp. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .
  2. ^ E. Kropfitsch | Fritz Kreisler Institute for the concert field of string instruments, guitar and harp. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .
  3. Kunsthaus Muerz: classic.muerz 10/11. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .
  4. Board of Directors | ESTA Austria - Association of Teachers for String Instruments in Austria. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .