Georg Hamann

Georg Hamann (born September 23, 1960 in Vienna ) is an Austrian violinist and violist .

Life

He studied violin with Klaus Maetzl and viola with Hatto Beyerle , both members of the Alban Berg Quartet , at the music academy in his hometown , and received his diploma with distinction. Thereupon he was awarded the prize for special artistic achievements by the Minister of Science. He also received instruction in master classes from Max Rostal and William Primrose .

Georg Hamann taught at the University of Music in Hanover as Hatto Beyerle's assistant and was a lecturer in chamber music at the University of Music Vienna from 1999 to 2009 . Until 2016 he was the first solo violist of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra , leads a talented violin and viola class at the Johann Sebastian Bach Music School and has been professor for violin and viola at the University of Music in Vienna since 2009 .

He also gives master classes for violin, viola and chamber music in Europe, Israel and Japan and has been invited to guest courses at universities in Brașov , Cluj-Napoca , Dublin , Yerevan , Helsinki , Lisbon , Ljubljana , Manchester , Minsk , Utrecht , Vilnius , Warsaw and Thessaloniki and Turku invited.

As a soloist for modern violin and baroque violin and as a violist, Hamann has made guest appearances at the Festival Wien modern, Styriarte Graz, Edinburgh Festival , Woodstock Mozart Festival, Menuhin Festival Gstaad , Nagano Festival Japan, Santo Domingo Festival. He was a member of the Arcus Ensemble Vienna for ten years .

In 1998 Georg Hamann founded the aron quartett with Ludwig Müller, Barna Kobori and Christophe Pantillon, which was invited by the Arnold Schönberg Center in Vienna as a “Quartet in Residence” to create its own subscription series. A few weeks after its founding, the quartet made its debut in Vienna.

Hamann was awarded the Golden Medal for services to the Republic of Austria by Federal President Thomas Klestil in 1992 .

He has published CDs with chamber music recordings of works from the Viennese Classic , Romantic and 20th century; also recordings of Austrian viola music from the 20th century. Furthermore, recordings of the violin concerto from Mozart's Haffner Serenade and the Sinfonia concertante were made for the Japanese company "Camerata".

Web links

• Georg Hamann's website