Michi Gaigg
Michi Gaigg (born April 22, 1957 in Schörfling am Attersee ) is an Austrian violinist and conductor, as well as a music teacher with a focus on baroque music .
She is the founder of L'arpa festante Munich and the L'Orfeo Barockorchester and has been the festival director of the Donaufestwochen in the Upper and Lower Austrian Strudengau since 2003 . In 2008 she was awarded the Great Stage Art Prize of the State of Upper Austria.
Career and activity
She studied violin at the Salzburg Mozarteum , where she received decisive impulses for her later musical career from Nikolaus Harnoncourt , and later baroque violin from Ingrid Seifert and Sigiswald Kuijken . She played in various ensembles, for example under the conductors Frans Brüggen , Alan Curtis , Christopher Hogwood , René Jacobs and Hermann Max, and founded an orchestra with L'arpa Festante in 1983 and directed it until 1995.
After her stays in London, The Hague, Munich, Cologne, Strasbourg and Tübingen, she returned to Austria and founded the L'Orfeo Barockorchester together with Carin van Heerden . She began her educational career in 1987 at the Conservatoire National de Strasbourg and has been teaching early music and historical performance practice at the Anton Bruckner University in Linz since 1994 .
Performances
The opera performances she played a key role in during the Donaufestwochen at Greinburg include (selection):
- Don Quixote at the wedding of Comacho by Georg Philipp Telemann
- Zaide by WA Mozart (2005)
- Romeo and Julie by Georg Anton Benda (2007)
- The desert island (late German version of the opera L'isola disabitata) by Joseph Haydn
- Almira , Queen of Castile by George Frideric Handel (2009)
- Orpheus or The Wonderful Persistence of Love by Georg Philipp Telemann (2012)
Awards
- 2007 Stage Art Prize of the Province of Upper Austria
- 2011 Culture Medal of the State of Upper Austria
- 2016 Heinrich Gleißner Prize
Web links
- Literature by and about Michi Gaigg in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ mica - music austria: Michi Gaigg. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5
- ↑ L'Orfeo Barockorchester Michi Gaigg - conductor on the website of Phoenix Music Media GmbH, Vienna
- ↑ 2007: Stage Art Prize of the State of Upper Austria phoenixedition.com
- ↑ A thrilling opening concert , in: Bezirksrundschau No. 31 of August 4, 2011
- ↑ Heinrich Gleißner Prize for Donaufestwochen director Michi Gaigg , in: Bezirksrundschau Perg from November 16, 2016
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Gaigg, Michi |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian violinist and conductor |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1957 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Schörfling am Attersee |