Wolfgang Aichinger

Wolfgang Aichinger (* 1952 in Wolfsberg / Carinthia ) is an Austrian cellist and professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna .

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education

Aichinger attended the Musikgymnasium Vienna and studied cello at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna . His teachers were Frieda Litschauer, Vladimir Orloff, Valentin Erben and André Navarra . In the piano trio, chamber music and cello solo categories he was repeatedly one of the winners of Jugend musiziert . From 1977 to 1979 he was a member of the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic under Herbert von Karajan . Also in Berlin he learned from Eberhard Finke from the Ensemble Die 12 Cellisten . In 1983 and 1984 Aichinger learned early music performance practice from Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

activity

In 1979 he became a member of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra . Wolfgang Aichinger has been teaching at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna since 1984. He has been leading his own class since 1999. In 2002, he was appointed director of the University's Hellmesberger Institute. Together with Barbara Gisler-Haase , he is the project coordinator for gifted students at his university. From 2005 to 2007 he was involved in the conception and implementation of the inter-institutional research project “Junge Akademie Wien”.

Aichinger was involved in numerous performances. At the Styrian Autumn Festival, for example, he played the world premiere of Reflections for Solo Cello (1976) by Thomas Pernes . He also made radio recordings with Norman Shetler .

Web links

• Wolfgang Aichinger at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sources of the biographical information are Das Sirene Opernteather and the information on Wolfgang Aichinger at the University of Music and Performing Arts .