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Ilse Wincor (* in Vöcklabruck ) is an Austrian violist and professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna .

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Career and teaching activity

Wincor has attended the Vienna Music High School since 1973 . At the same time she studied the viola concert subject at what was then the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna , which she graduated with honors in 1981. Your main teachers there were Karl Stierhof and Hatto Beyerle . She then deepened her studies in the USA with William Primrose , a student of Eugène Ysaÿe , and in London with Peter Schidlof of the Amadeus Quartet .

Ilse Wincor has been teaching at what is now the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna since 1982. She was initially a lecturer and university assistant until she was appointed professor in 2004.

Activities as an artist

In addition to her teaching activities, Wincor has always been active as a musician in changing formations and as a soloist, often playing works by Mozart and Paul Hindemith . In Vienna Chamber Orchestra she worked from 1980 to 1992 as principal violist. From 1981 she worked in the Camerata Salzburg and from 1989 to 1991 also in the Chamber Orchestra of Europe as solo violist. From 1993 to 1997 she was a member of the Klangforum Wien founded by Beat Furrer . On the occasion of its tenth anniversary in 1995, she gave the world premiere of Friedrich Cerha's viola concerto in the Wiener Konzerthaus . Since 1999, Wincor has been a member of the “Cappella Andrea Barca” founded by the Hungarian pianist and conductor András Schiff .

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1. ↑ ao.Univ.-Prof. Ilse Wincor | Hellmesberger Institute. In: University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna - Hellmesberger Institute . Retrieved March 25, 2020 .