Erwin Ortner

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Erwin Guido Ortner

Erwin Guido Ortner (born December 15, 1947 in Vienna ) is an Austrian choir director and conductor . He is the founder and artistic director of the Arnold Schoenberg Choir , with which he has won numerous awards. He also works with other choirs, including a. as part of the Vienna Choir Festival .

life and career

Erwin Ortner was a piano student of Christl Hauser, who was the first to recognize his musical talent. Later he went to Ferdinand Grossmann's school as a member of the Vienna Boys 'Choir and toured the world with Gerhard Lang as a Boys' Choir. Ortner experienced his first national youth singing with the school choir of the Stubenbastei grammar school .

He studied music education and church music at the Vienna University of Music . In 1967 he joined the student association K.Ö.HV Mercuria Vienna in the ÖCV . In 1980 , at the age of 33, he succeeded his teacher Hans Gillesberger as a full professor for choral conducting and choral vocal training . From 1996 to 2002 Erwin Ortner was rector of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna .

From 1983 until its dissolution in 1995, Ortner was the artistic director of the ORF choir .

On December 14, 2009 he was appointed the new Viennese court conductor. As artistic director of the Vienna Hofmusikkapelle , Ortner is responsible for the musical design of the high offices in the Vienna Hofburgkapelle .

Foundation of the Arnold Schoenberg Choir

Ortner gathered a small circle of contemporaries around him in the St. Othmar parish in Vienna-Landstrasse , which later became the youth choir and in 1968 the St. Othmar chamber choir. With this, Ortner, as a 21-year-old, took second place in the choir competition in Spittal an der Drau in the same year and won the competition in 1971. Encouraged by this, the chamber choir took on the name Arnold Schoenberg Choir in 1972 and had a long and lively collaboration with Nikolaus Harnoncourt . Through the collaboration with Harnoncourt, the Arnold Schoenberg Choir gained greater prominence.

Under his direction, among other things, the entire secular choral works of Franz Schubert were recorded on seven CDs in 1996 . This recording was awarded the German Record Critics' Prize , the Diapason d'or in France, the Prix ​​Caecilia in Belgium and the 1997 Grand Prize of the Academy Awards in Japan . In 2001 he received the Grammy Award in the Best Choir Performance category for the recording of Bach's St. Matthew Passion with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the Arnold Schoenberg Choir . In 2007 the Wiener Festwochen production “From the House of the Dead” by Leoš Janáček with the Arnold Schoenberg Choir was voted the best performance of 2007 among all opera productions in German-speaking countries. In 2010 the CD production “ Die Jahreszeiten ” by Joseph Haydn with the Arnold Schoenberg Choir was awarded the Echo Klassik Prize.

Erwin Ortner Prize

The Erwin Ortner Prize for the promotion of choral music has been awarded to outstanding young choir directors and composers by the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna since 1988.

family

Erwin Ortner lives in Hinterbrühl (Lower Austria) and is married to Annemaria Ortner-Kläring, concert master of the RSO Vienna . The couple have two children.

See also

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