Johanna Beisteiner Explained

Instrument:Guitar
Johanna Beisteiner
Birth Date:1976 2, df=yes
Birth Place:Wiener Neustadt
Genre:Classical music, Film music
Occupation:Guitarist, Singer, Arranger
Years Active:fl. ca. 1992 - present
Label:Gramy Records
Website:www.beisteiner.com

Johanna Beisteiner (born 20 February 1976) is an Austrian classical guitarist, singer and arranger.[1] [2]

Life

Johanna Beisteiner received her first guitar lessons at the age of nine at the Josef Matthias Hauer music school in her hometown Wiener Neustadt. In 1992, when only sixteen years of age, she became a student at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, from where she graduated as a concert guitarist as well as a Doctor of philosophy with a PhD Thesis on Art music in figure skating, synchronized swimming and rhythmic gymnastics.[3]

Johanna Beisteiner is an internationally active guitar soloist and singer, her repertoire contains music from the 15th to the 20th century as well as contemporary classical music. Inter alia she played several world premieres of works by the composers Robert Gulya, Reuben Pace and Eduard Shafransky. Moreover, she worked with known orchestras such as the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, Sochi Symphony Orchestra, Graz Chamber Philharmonic[4] and Budapest Strings Chamber Orchestra, renowned conductors such as Michelle Castelletti, Béla Drahos, Achim Holub[5] and Oleg Soldatov and the Argentine Tango dancer as well as choreographer Rafael Ramirez. In addition to her numerous recordings for Gramy Records, she also appeared in television and radio productions for RAI 3 (Italy), Channel 4 (Russia) and Bartok Radio (Hungary) and recorded soundtracks for movies.[6] In 2012 she composed her first own piece Zemlinsky's Night on themes by Alexander von Zemlinsky.

In 2017 Beisteiner was invited by the Valletta International Baroque Festival to give concerts at Manoel Theatre as well as National Library of Malta with works by Reuben Pace and Johann Sebastian Bach.[7] [8] [9] [10] In 2018 she was selected by Reuben Pace as the interpreter for the world premiere of his Mdina Suite for guitar solo at the Wiener Musikverein.[11] In the season 2018/19 she played her own arrangements of Renaissance works in a program on Pieter Bruegel the Elder at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and sang in a duet with the actress and singer Katrin Stuflesser.[12]

As part of her solo concerts in recent times, Johanna Beisteiner interprets also art songs (e. g. by Schubert or Mozart) and accompanies herself with specially developed playing techniques.[13] [14]

In October 2022 she went on tour in the USA with performances in New York City, Washington DC and Durham (North Carolina).[15] [16] [17] [18] During this concert tour, she presented her one-woman show Farkas in America ― a combination of recitation, music and flamenco dance ― at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York and at the PSI Theatre of Durham Arts Council. This one-woman show was based on the book of poems Farkas entdeckt Amerika (en: Farkas discovers America) by the Jewish-Austrian comedian Karl Farkas, who ironically described in this work his escape from the Nazi regime via France and Spain to the USA and his life there from 1938-42. Beisteiner also gave a solo concert at the Church of the Epiphany (Washington, D.C.) with songs by Schubert and Mozart and works for solo guitar by Pace and Albéniz.

As part of a cycle by the Maison Heinrich Heine in Paris in honor of Ingeborg Bachmann, Beisteiner opened the series of events with the musical-literary soloprogram Ingeborg Bachmann & Paul Celan on the 50th anniversary of Bachmann's death on October 17, 2023.[19] In November 2023, she toured Canada and the United States with performances at the Centrepointe Theatre in Ottawa,[20] Ottawa Public Library[21] as well as PSI Theatre in Durham.[22] The artist presented her one-woman show Austrian Rarities with works by Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert as well as anecdotes from Ingeborg Bachmann's connections to North America.[23] [24] [25] She also moderated the Book Club of the European Union on the English translation of a book by Ludwig Drahosch, Simonetta's Shadow: A Tale about the Unteachability of the Beautiful (Edition Margarete Tischler, 2022).[26]

Beisteiner plays on classical Spanish guitars made by Paulino Bernabe Senior and Junior.

Honours and awards

World premieres

Works by Robert Gulya

Works by Reuben Pace

Works by Eduard Shafransky

Discography

CD

DVD

Soundtracks

Bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://kultur.tirol.at/de/highlight/15721/johanna-beisteiner-konzertgitarristin Johanna Beisteiner, Konzertgitarristin.
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxV1pnIedWs Interview about singing in bel canto technique.
  3. http://aleph20-prod-acc.obvsg.at/F?func=find-b&find_code=IDN&local_base=acc01&request=AC05031512 Art music in figure skating, synchronized swimming and rhythmic gymnastics.
  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biG2IC9jyi4 Un Concerto Italiano.
  5. http://www.meinbezirk.at/leibnitz/kultur/ehrenhausen-premiere-bei-italienischem-konzert-d1446079.html Premiere at Italian Concert.
  6. http://www.beisteiner.com/bio_de.htm Biography.
  7. https://maltaorchestra.com/events/viaf/ Inspired by Baroque.
  8. http://operalounge.de/features/musikszene-festivals/malta-is-more Malta is more.
  9. http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20170122/arts-entertainment/a-baroque-world-premiere.637264 A baroque world premiere.
  10. https://beisteiner.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2017VallettaBaroque-Festival-Bachs-Lute-Suites-.pdf Bach's Lute Suites.
  11. https://www.musikverein.at/CustomResources/pdf/Kalendarium/2018/960d4069-782a-4b76-9685-955b171d3ac8.pdf World premiere
  12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mlSCPh9irI Visiting Pieter Bruegel
  13. https://www.schwarzwaelder-bote.de/inhalt.hechingen-ausgefeilte-spieltechnik-auf-gitarre.777f5346-a5f1-4f09-849f-54ab7cbe8b32.html Sophisticated playing techniques on guitar.
  14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlKdJHdfdBI Schubert - Heidenröslein.
  15. Web site: Archived copy . 10 November 2022 . 11 October 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221011160331/https://acfny.org/event/concert-johanna-beisteiner-farkas-in-america-a-one-woman-show/ . bot: unknown . Johanna Beisteiner: Farkas in America in the calendar of events on the website of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York. October 2022.
  16. https://www.facebook.com/lbi.newyork/posts/this-thursday-join-the-austrian-cultural-forum-new-york-to-see-johanna-beisteine/5710641262292639/ Johanna Beisteiner: Farkas in America.
  17. https://www.facebook.com/embassymt/ Amazing performance by Johanna Beisteiner.
  18. https://durhamarts.org/psi-theatre-now-playing/ PSI Theatre.
  19. https://www.maison-heinrich-heine.org/culture/2023/octobre/ingeborg-bachmann-paul-celan?lang=fr Ingeborg Bachmann & Paul Celan - Johanna Beisteiner (récitation, chant, guitare).
  20. https://meridiancentrepointe.com/en/austrian-rarities Austrian Rarities - A One Woman Show with Johanna Beisteiner.
  21. https://biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/event/eu-bookclub-embassy-austria EU Bookclub Embassy of Austria.
  22. https://durhammag.com/event-directory/austrian-rarities/ Austrian Rarities. A One-Woman Show with Johanna Beisteiner.
  23. https://www.bmeia.gv.at/en/austrian-embassy-ottawa/news/events/detail/seite?tx_news_pi1%5Bnews%5D=42427&cHash=120d818bb5fec959ee6637a399271a6c CONCERT: "Austrian Rarities - A one woman show"
  24. https://www.facebook.com/austriaincanada/posts/pfbid0sXuhK4ZbGjkQru6vPeeE8siXXTFcvHPFa8VpD9vfVVmNoadeL5Tdo6vK692NsXsgl Austria in Canada.
  25. https://www.literaturdialoge.at/konzert-mit-johanna-beisteiner-oekf-ottawa/ Konzert mit Johanna Beisteiner. (en: Concert with Johanna Beisteiner.)
  26. https://www.bmeia.gv.at/fr/ambassade-dautriche-ottawa/actualites/evenements/detail/eu-book-club-simonettas-shadow-by-ludwig-drahosch EU Book Club: "Simonetta's Shadow" by Ludwig Drahosch.
  27. https://www.iltamtam.it/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/bicentenarioprogramma.pdf?b1ed40 Bicentenario del Teatro della Concordia.
  28. http://www.iltamtam.it/2016/09/20/il-teatro-della-concordia-premia-una-chitarrista/ Il Teatro della Concordia premia una chitarrista.
  29. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395795/ Truce. Article on the IMDb website. 2005
  30. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0847895/ S.O.S. Love!. Article on the IMDb website. 2007

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