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Violin: technical skills, musical phrasing and presentation
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My tutoring focuses on the art of violin playing, additionally to the way an advanced student or young musician has learned in a conservatory. Musical insights from different perspectives are shown to increase the quality of sound, the versatility of articulation and phrasing and last, but not least, to get prepared artistically and mentally for auditions, competitions and performances on the highest level.
Many tricks and advice will be given to overcome obstacles in performing, as well as many inspiring insights in issues like breathing, posture and musical flow.
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Online coaching for violinists all over the world
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Online from Austria
About Me
As one of the most versatile musicians of today, Wolfgang is highly sought after as a director, soloist, leader and chamber musician.
Born in Graz/Austria, received many different musical educations in Austria, Italy and the USA. Among his most influential mentors were Isaac Stern, Claudio Abbado and Norbert Brainin (Amadeus Quartet)
Already during his studies in violin at the Vienna Music Academy, began to perform with orchestras like the Vienna Philharmonic and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
In 1988, he founded the Vienna Piano Trio and has performed until 2012 far more than thousand concerts with his ensemble all over the world. He won an Echo Classic prize and was artist in residence at the Wigmore Hall in London.

As a soloist, he appeared with the English Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique Belgique, the Munich Chamber Orchestra and the Camerata Salzburg and worked together with conductors like Sir Roger Norrington, Adam Fischer and Claudio Abbado. performed at the Vienna Musikverein, the Tonhalle Zurich, the Gewandhaus Leipzig and regularly appears also in violin recitals.

Discography includes over 20 solo- and chamber music recordings and dozens of recordings with different orchestras. In 2012, two solo CDs with Violin Concertos by Mendelssohn and A. Lokshin were released.
As a guest director, Wolfgang works closely with the Beijing Symphony, the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, „recreation-Grosses Orchester Graz“ and the Sándor Végh Chamber Orchestra, among others. Since 2012, on personal invitation of Maestro Kent Nagano, he performs regularly as a leader and conductor with the Montréal Symphony Orchestra.

His repertoire focuses on works of the Viennese Classical and the Romantic eras. His performances of works by Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven were highly praised by audiences and critics in Europe, the Far East and the Americas.
Also a passionate teacher and works regularly with violinists, ensembles and young orchestras in masterclasses in London, Moscow, New York, Vienna, Beijing and Montreal. As of 2007, after having taught at the Graz Academy of Music for 18 years, Wolfgang taught at the Mozarteum University Salzburg for 12 years, where he founded and directed the Sándor Végh Institute for Chamber Music.
In 2019, he was appointed professor for violin and chamber music at the „Hochschule Hanns Eisler“ in Berlin/Germany.

Wolfgang plays a rare J.B. Guadagnini violin from 1772, which is on loan from the Austrian National Bank.
Education
University of Music and Drama Graz/Austria
University of Music Vienna/Austria
Diploma with distinction in 1992
Masterclasses with Isaac Stern, Pamela Franck and Arnold Steinhardt
Experience / Qualifications
17 years of teaching experience at University of Music Graz/Austria
12 years of professorship at University Mozarteum Salzburg/Austria
Additional guest professor at the "Musikhochschule" Leipzig, Stuttgart und Essen
Currently Professor at the "Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler" in Berlin/Germany
Age
Teenagers (13-17 years old)
Adults (18-64 years old)
Seniors (65+ years old)
Student level
Advanced
Duration
60 minutes
90 minutes
The class is taught in
English
German
Availability of a typical week
(GMT -04:00)
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