Robert Pobitschka

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Robert Pobitschka is an Austrian composer and pianist .

biography

Robert Pobitschka began his training in Klagenfurt , Villach and at the University of Music in Vienna. After completing a law degree at the University of Vienna , Robert Pobitschka returned to his musical studies. He attended Tatjana Kravtchenko's class at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory and master classes from Elisabeth Leonskaja and Lew Naumov at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival .

Robert Pobitschka performed in the Brucknerhaus Linz, the Wiener Konzerthaus , the Wiener Musikverein and the Minoriten-Saal in Graz. He played as a soloist in the opening orchestral concert of the Haydn Festival in Dolni Lukavice and was a multiple guest at the Eisenstadt Haydn Festival , where he interpreted piano versions of symphonies by Haydn and Beethoven, which Sir Neville Marriner then repeated in the original orchestral version. He performed at the Vienna Culture Days in Berlin and Potsdam and at the “Evenings in Monrepos” festival in Vyborg / Karelia. As part of the “Music in Autumn” series, Robert Pobitschka gave the Austrian premiere of István Szelényi's “Summa vitae” for piano and orchestra, composed in 1956 under the baton of Laszlo Szelenyi, the composer's son, in the Haydn Hall of Estarhazy Palace .

Concert recordings and studio recordings of Robert Pobitschka were broadcast on Austrian radio ORF , in Sender Freies Berlin , in CCTV China, in CTC Peru and in Duna Televizio, Budapest. The Bayerische Rundfunk transferred Gustav Mahler's four-hand piano version of Anton Bruckner's Third Symphony. The partner on the grand piano was Norman Shetler , who has had valuable and decisive influences in recent years.

His concert tours have taken him to Italy, Germany, Russia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, South Africa, Peru, the USA and China. Robert Pobitschka presented unknown sonata movements by Franz Schubert at the Austrian Academy of Sciences , which he had contributed to the publication of the Bärenreiter-Verlag . Repetitions took place in the Russian Fund for Culture in Moscow and with the Musical Merit Foundation in San Diego. He lectures in cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Service at schools and holds a position at the United Nations in Vienna - in cooperation and a. with the VIC Music Club and the Society for Conscious Living - regular discussion concerts. In 2006 and 2007 Robert Pobitschka was also stage partner of the actress Topsy Küppers in "Scenes of a Love - George Sand and Frédéric Chopin " directed by Peter M. Preissler . He holds courses “Listening to Music - Understanding Music” as part of the Venice International Summer Academy.

Compositions

  • Six songs based on texts by Ernst Christian Pacher
  • Cosmos Japanese Garden
  • Kyrie - Dedicated to nature
  • The sea pictures of Mira Aleksandra Stefanov
  • United Nations prayer
  • "Atlanta Awakes"
  • Water is Life - Inspired by Zhao Yu Sheng's picture of the same name
  • Water is Life II - Inspired by a picture of Zhao Yu Sheng

Individual evidence

  1. Program / biography (PDF; 65 kB) accessed on July 26, 2011.

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