Johanna Beisteiner

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Johanna Beisteiner at a concert with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra conducted by Béla Drahos on October 24, 2009 (Budapest, Hubay Hall)
Johanna Beisteiner (left) as the winner of the Premio Teatro della Concordia 2016 with Edoardo Brenci (President of the Società del Teatro della Concordia, right).
Johanna Beisteiner at a solo concert in the Church of St. Helena am Wieserberg on May 17, 2012

Johanna Beisteiner (born February 20, 1976 in Wiener Neustadt ) is an Austrian classical guitarist .

Life

Johanna Beisteiner received her first instrumental lessons at the age of nine at the Josef Matthias Hauer Music School in Wiener Neustadt and only moved to the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in 1992 at the age of sixteen , where she studied concert and doctoral studies with a dissertation in art music in figure skating, synchronized swimming and rhythmic gymnastics from 1990 to the present as Dr. phil. completed.

Beisteiner works internationally as a soloist. Her repertoire includes not only well-known works from the 15th to 20th centuries, but also new music, including premieres of numerous compositions by Robert Gulya , Reuben Pace and Eduard Schafranski . She has also worked with well-known orchestras such as the Budapest Symphony Orchestra , the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra , the Sochi Symphony Orchestra , the Graz Chamber Philharmonic and the Budapest String Chamber Orchestra under the direction of renowned conductors such as Michelle Castelletti , Béla Drahos , Achim Holub and Oleg Soldatow . In 2008 she shot the video clip The Milonguero and the Muse to music by Robert Gulya with the Argentine tango dancer and choreographer Rafael Ramirez . In 2012 she wrote her first own composition, Zemlinsky's Nacht, based on themes by Alexander von Zemlinsky . Together with the Viennese actress Heidrun Saturday, she presents the musical and literary evening Farkas Discover America from a volume of poems of the same name by the Austrian cabaret artist Karl Farkas , who in this work ironically escaped the Nazi regime via France and Spain to the USA and describes his life there. In 2017 Beisteiner made a guest appearance at the Valletta International Baroque Festival with concerts in the Teatru Manoel and the National Library of Malta . Since 2017, Beisteiner has appeared with the Viennese actress Katrin Stuflesser at musical-literary events and also presents herself as a singer.

The guitarist's recordings are released by Gramy Records . Beisteiner also worked on soundtracks for the films Truce (USA, 2005) and SOS szerelem! (Hungary, 2007) and was heard on radio and television, including a. at Rai 3 and Bartók Rádió .

Johanna Beisteiner plays a Spanish concert guitar from the master workshop of Paulino Bernabe and son .

Awards

World premieres

Works by Robert Gulya

Works by Reuben Pace

  • 2017: Concertino for guitar, harpsichord and orchestra

Works by Eduard Schafranski

  • 2004: Requiem for guitar
  • 2007: Caravaggio oggi or thoughts on a picture by Caravaggio . Video sample (GRAMY Records, 2010.)
  • 2007: Night in Granada
  • 2009: The old quarters of Alania
  • 2009: The songs of the surf

Own compositions

Discography

CD

  • 2001: Dance Fantasy
  • 2002: Salon
  • 2004: Between present and past
  • 2007: Virtuosi italiani della chitarra romantica
  • 2012: Austrian Rhapsody
  • 2016: Don Quixote

DVD

  • 2010: Live in Budapest

Soundtracks

  • 2005: Truce
  • 2007: SOS Love!

Web links

Commons : Johanna Beisteiner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General catalog of the Austrian Library Association .
  2. ^ Un Concerto Italiano. Concert report from Südsteiermark-TV, August 17th, 2015
  3. ^ Premiere at an Italian concert. Article on Meinviertel.at, August 17, 2015.
  4. ↑ Karl Farkas discovers America! Event report of the district papers of Lower Austria / Pressbaum, March 2014.
  5. ↑ Malta is more. ( Memento of the original from October 27, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article by Bernd Hoppe on the website of the online magazine Opera Lounge, January 2017. (German) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / operalounge.de
  6. ↑ A baroque world premiere. Article by Iggy Fenech, Times of Malta, January 22, 2017. (English)
  7. ↑ ears tickle and culinary delicacies on the website of the studio theater . Retrieved November 9, 2017.
  8. ↑ Event program in the Falter , 2017.
  9. ↑ Report on the Mini Fesztivál Magyar est 2004 , article by István Németh in the magazine Muzsika.
  10. ^ Bicentenario del Teatro della Concordia . (PDF; 155 kB) Program of the ceremony for the bicentenary of the Teatro della Concordia . April 2008.
  11. ^ CV on the official website of Johanna Beisteiner. April 2018.
  12. ↑ Il Teatro della Concordia premia una chitarrista. Article by Simone Mazzi, September 20, 2016.
  13. ↑ concert report (2012)
  14. ^ In the middle of Dellach, concert report on the official community website of Dellach (Gailtal) , May 2012
  15. ↑ Don Quixote in the Mozart Hall . Article of the NÖN, week 18/2016.
  16. ↑ Truce . Article on the IMDb website. 2005
  17. ↑ Truce Movie Trailer
  18. ↑ SOS Love! . Article on the IMDb website. 2007
  19. ↑ SOS Szerelem, part 1
personal data
SURNAME Beisteiner, Johanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian classical guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiener Neustadt