Gisela Mashayekhi-Beer

Gisela Mashayekhi-Beer (born before 1983 in Passau ) is an Austrian flautist and professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and lecturer at the Joseph Haydn Conservatory in Eisenstadt .

Life

Gisela Mashayekhi-Beer studied from 1983 at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Helmut Zangerle, who was the solo flutist of the Mozarteum Orchestra . During the Salzburger time they also took in the summer academies at the master classes with Peter-Lukas Graf part.

In 1985 she moved to the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna (now: University of Music and Performing Arts ), where she studied for the next two years with Wolfgang Schulz , solo flutist of the Vienna Philharmonic . In 1986, Schulz brought her to the Vienna Chamber Orchestra as his successor , with whom she also played her first major tours in South America and Japan. 

In addition to working in the orchestra, she and the composer Nader Mashayekhi founded the Ensemble Wien in 2001, which set itself the task of performing contemporary music in connection with other arts or contrary music, which opens the ears of the listener to new music in a new and different way. So there was B. Concerts with contemporary Japanese composers, along with European composers influenced by Japanese art and traditional Japanese music; or Austrian contemporary music together with Johann Sebastian Bach's “The Musical Sacrifice”, or a portrait of the Persian poet Forugh Farochsad, with compositions by the Persian composer Nader Mashayekhi and recitation by the actress Hanna Schygulla , to name just a few of the projects. During this time Gisela Mashayekhi-Beer intensified her preoccupation with contemporary music and its instrument-specific new techniques and profited from the collaboration with composers such as Hans Zender , Toru Takemitsu , Peter Ablinger and others. a.

Web links

• CV at concertflute.net