Wilfried Scharf

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Wilfried Scharf (born April 9, 1955 in Braunau am Inn ) is an Austrian zither soloist and has been a professor at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz since 1989 .

Life

Wilfried Scharf grew up in a musical environment. After compulsory schooling and high school diploma , he graduated from the Pedagogical Academy of the Diocese of Linz from 1974 to 1977 , where he passed the teaching examination for secondary schools in the subjects of English and music education and then taught for four years at a secondary school. In 1982 he began to study zither as a major at the Tyrolean State Conservatory with Peter Suitner and in 1985 passed the state teaching qualification examination for zither with excellent results.

In 1989 the zither was introduced as a major in the “Bruckner Conservatory” in Linz and Wilfried Scharf was entrusted with the establishment of a zither class.

Since the late 1980s he has appeared as a soloist and in 1982 founded the ensemble “Salzburger Saitenklang”. The ensemble adapts classical works for harp , zither and guitar .

At the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic in 2014 , conducted by Daniel Barenboim , he played the zither solo in the waltz Tales from the Vienna Woods , op. 325 by Johann Strauss (Sohn) .

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SURNAME Sharp, Wilfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunau am Inn