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Ulla Pilz (* 18th November 1967 in Enns ) is an Austrian radio - journalist , singer and music educator .

The trained concert and opera singer ( soprano ) than actress , comedienne , event, radio - and TV - presenter operates.

She has acted as a writer and director several times in connection with music education projects .

In 2014, together with Bartolo Musil , she wrote the study Music Mediation - Relevance, Practice, Teaching, Visions on behalf of the Graz University of Art . Since the summer semester 2015 she has been working as a senior lecturer at the University of Art in Graz, where she is responsible for developing and coordinating the topic of music education.

Life and education

Ulla Pilz is the daughter of Gerhard and Heidelore Pilz, grew up in the city of Perg in Upper Austria and graduated from the music high school in Linz a . a. in piano . She then studied music theory / composition , solo singing and song and oratorio at the Vienna Conservatory and graduated with distinction in all subjects. In 2002 their son Raphael was born.

Artistic work

Concert and opera singer

After completing her training as a soprano, Ulla Pilz took part in concerts, particularly in Vienna and in the Austrian federal states. She took part in several international festivals, such as dreamscapes and Vienna-Berlin 1918-1938 in London , the Friendship Spring Art Festival in Pyongyang (1989), musica sacra in Bratislava and the Styriarte in Graz .

Ulla Pilz can be heard on CDs with Bach cantatas , a children's opera, a film soundtrack and operetta highlights (publisher Österreichischer Städtebund ).

She embodied stage roles in Vienna, among others, in the Burgtheater am Theater an der Wien , in the chamber opera and with most of the independent music theater groups ( Neue Oper Wien , Sirene Operntheater , NetZZeit , Zoon Musiktheater , Wiener Taschenoper , Musikwerkstatt Wien , Totales Theater and Schlüterwerke ) as well as in some Austrian city and state theaters ( Stadttheater Klagenfurt , Landestheater Salzburg ) and at summer games (Franconian Festival in Röttingen , Fairy Tale Summer in Lower Austria ).

Most recently she set about designing concert evenings with renowned artists herself and making a significant contribution to them. She designed a recital with erotic songs by contemporary composers, supplemented by texts from popular vernacular and world literature , whereby she is responsible for performance and singing herself . She previously arranged themed concert evenings in Merano as part of Sonora 2009 (female composers in the focus of a concert evening) and 2011 with Wurdalak (based on Alexei Konstantinowitsch Tolstoy ) together with Thomas Doss .

Cabaret artist

Together with Bartolo Musil , Ulla Pilz has performed repeatedly as the caberet duo illie & bart since 2004 . The two have their very own place in the Austrian cabaret scene. With four full-length and various short programs, the duo has already been live on ORF 1 and on stage and on. a. at the Life Ball , in the Birdland Jazz Club , at the Rainbow Parade and in the Brucknerhaus in Linz .

Event, radio and television presenter

From 1995 to 2003 Ulla Pilz was an actress and presenter on ORF children's television. She was also seen in the youth series Mimis Villa Schnattermund and in the children's program Confetti TiVi . Since 2002 she has been one of the presenters of the Ö1 program Pasticcio and has also worked several times for the Ö1 programs Ö1 extra and Ö1 to 2 .

Since 2004, with her fairy tales, she has been an integral part of the annual Christmas concert for the whole family in the Linz Brucknerhaus together with the Bruckner Orchester Linz , where she is responsible for the selection of music and the textual and dramaturgical preparation of the Christmas fairy tale and, as the narrator, plays a key role in the design.

She regularly gives introductory lectures and moderates classical concerts, for example for the RSO Vienna , the Ensemble Kontrapunkte or the Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich .

Author and director

Since 2013, the collaboration with the Kultur.Theater.Musik association has included the production and staging of an opera or operetta that is performed as part of the summer opera in the Amthof in Feldkirchen in Carinthia and on a tour through Lower Austria with the aim of bringing music theater to rural areas bring to:

• 2013: The beautiful Galathée ( Franz von Suppè )
• 2014: The Portrait of Manon ( Jules Massenet )
• 2015: The Pharmacist ( Joseph Haydn )

The following productions were played in collaboration with Jeunesse in the Wiener Konzerthaus and throughout Austria:

• Ferdinand and Klarabella (a hearty, fragrant mini music theater about boys and girls), music by Alan Ridout and Balduin Sulzer (2013/2014)
• 4 × 1 = 1 - the magic of the string quartet (with the Adamas Quartet 2012/2013/2014), music by Joseph Haydn , Franz Schubert , Maurice Ravel and Pavel Haas
• Frycek - the little Chopin (story of childhood and youth by Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin based on the concept, the dramaturgy and the libretto by Ulla Pilz, 2010/2011/2012)

Nocturnal visitors (a musical journey through time for children), first performance in 1998 in the large broadcasting hall of the Radiokulturhaus , numerous school theater performances throughout Austria.

literature

• Bruckner Orchestra - children play the main role , in: Theatermagazin December 2011 , p. 16f.
• A duo makes Bruckner tremble while singing , in: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten of September 13, 2012

media

• Dorf TV hearsay # 39 - Ulla Pilz is guest at Norbert Trawöger
• Short Biography in English, Wiener Kammeroper Ulla Pilz (soprano)
• Artist portrait of the Styriarte - The Styrian Festival Ulla Pilz
• Portrait of the Carinthian Summer - Festival Ossiach - Villach Ulla Pilz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Siren Opera Theater - Ulla Pilz
2. ↑ Styriarte Artists Archive - Ulla Pilz  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Stiftergymnasium - The Gateway to the World - Biographies of Well-Known Graduates' ( Memento from December 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
4. ^ Bach cantatas - CD recording by Peter Matzka: BWV 211 and 212
5. ^ Ali N. Askin: Eisenhans! An opera for children based on the Brothers Grimm , 2012  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Deluxe caliber (2000)
7. ↑ Mea Culpa, directed by Christoph Schlingensief , in: Webpräsenz des Burgtheater ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 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. queried on March 15, 2015 
8. ↑ Ulla Pilz as a notary in intermezzo at the Theater an der Wien , in: Web presence of the Theater an der Wien queried on March 20, 2015
9. ^ Chamber opera versus World Cup , in: District sheets Hollabrunn queried on March 15, 2015
10. ↑ Don Juan comes out of the war , in: Webpräsenz Neue Oper Wien queried on March 15, 2015
11. ↑ Ulla Pilz, in: Sirene Operntheater's website queried on March 15, 2015
12. ↑ Animals give advice and rap , in: Web presence of the Standard queried on March 20, 2015
13. ↑ Die Galle der Ostpreußen, in: Webpräsenz von Artphalanx ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. queried on March 20, 2015 
14. ↑ Ulla Pilz , in: Schlüterwerke web presence queried on March 15, 2015
15. ↑ Events Brucknerhaus
16. ^ Review of Upper Austrian News
17. ↑ Female composers at the center of a concert evening (2009)
18. ↑ Review in the Ö1 series Zeit-Ton by Alice Ertlbauer-Camerer
19. ↑ Youtube demo by Illie & bart , accessed on March 20, 2015
20. ↑ Music Comedy in the Brucknerhaus - Heart overflowing obliquely, in: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten of May 12, 2011 queried on March 20, 2015
21. ^ Baroque in three languages ​​- portrait of Bartolo Musil
22. ↑ 15th Vienna Rainbow Ball as an insider tip - Ribbon dance at the Vienna Rainbow Ball
23. ↑ Brucknerhaus - Summer Folder 2012 ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 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. 
24. ↑ Ulla Pilz - portrait  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
25. ↑ Enchanting Snow Queen
26. ↑ Proof of an introductory talk for the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra , in: ORF web presence requested on March 20, 2015
27. ↑ Proof of an introductory talk for Ensemble Kontrapunkte , in: Web presence of the online culture magazine queried on March 20, 2015
28. ↑ Proof of an introductory talk for the Tonkünstler Orchester Niederösterreich , in: Festspielhaus St. Pölten website ( memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. queried on March 20, 2015 
29. ^ Youtube video of a broadcast by Radio Kärnten requested on March 20, 2015
30. ↑ Summer Opera in the Amthof, directed by Ulla Pilz , in: Forum Amthof's website queried on March 20, 2015
31. ↑ Jeuness children's youth program, accessed on the Jeunesse website on March 20, 2015
32. ↑ Styriarte artist archive Ulla Pilz ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2014 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.