Margarete Babinsky

Margarete Babinsky (* in Vienna ) is an Austrian pianist .

Life

Margarete Babinsky knew at the age of eight that she wanted to become a pianist. After a year of piano lessons, she was accepted into the class for particularly gifted children at the Vienna University of Music , where she received lessons from Michael Krist in Vienna, Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the Mozarteum Salzburg and Rudolf Kehrer at the Moscow Conservatory , among others .

Babinsky is both an interpreter of contemporary literature and the classical piano repertoire. For her first CD recording with works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , she was awarded the Vienna Flute Clock in 1999 by the Mozart Community in Vienna.

Due to national and international competition prizes in Great Britain , Italy and the USA , she was able to start a concert activity during her studies.

Babinsky has developed his own master profile according to the motto

“Technology is the tool to bring music to life and you can only achieve optimal results with perfect tools. Ultimately, however, it depends on the musical statement of a work, the interpreter should never think he is smarter than the composer. "

In the course of time she has worked with the Vienna Symphony , the Budapest Symphony , the Vienna Chamber Orchestra , the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg , the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra , the Orchester d´Auvergne , the Bohuslav-Martinu-Philharmonie , the RSO Berlin and the Southwest German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim makes music. In addition to Europe, she also performed in Asia, Africa and South America under the direction of various conductors, the most famous of whom were Yehudi Menuhin and Vladimir Fedoseyev .

Margarete Babinsky teaches at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and also devotes herself intensively to chamber music, working with artists such as Werner Hink , Karin Adam , Elisabeth Jess-Kropfitsch , Luz Leskowitz , Christoph Stradner and Wolfgang Panhofer .

Repertoire (selection)

• Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major , Op. 15 by Ludwig van Beethoven
• Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 19 by Ludwig van Beethoven
• Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 by Ludwig van Beethoven
• Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58 by Ludwig van Beethoven
• Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73 by Ludwig van Beethoven
• Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 by Johannes Brahms
• Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 by Frédéric Chopin
• Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21 by Frédéric Chopin
• Piano Concerto in G major Hob. XVIII: 4 by Joseph Haydn
• Piano Concerto in D major Hob.XVIII: 2 by Joseph Haydn
• 6. Piano Concerto KV 238 in B flat major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• 8th Piano Concerto KV 246 in C major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• 9. Piano Concerto KV 271 in E flat major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• 26. Piano Concerto KV 537 in D major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• 27. Piano Concerto KV 595 in B flat major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Discography (selection)

• "Me and You" - Duets of Romanticism, 1 CD by Quinton
• Egon Wellesz : Piano Concerto op.49 / Violin Concerto op.84, 1 CD
• Erwin Schulhoff : Piano Works (Solo Piano Works) 2-CD box from Phoenix Records
• Sergei Wassiljewitsch Rachmaninow : Piano Works 2 CD by Delta-Music Königsdorf

Publications

• Piano Basics of Technology , Paperback 2003

Web links

• Margarete Babinsky website , accessed on May 25, 2016

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Margarete Babinsky on the website of the Institute for String and Other String Instruments at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna , accessed on May 25, 2016
2. ^ Curriculum vitae on Margarete Babinsky's website , accessed on May 25, 2016