An all-women trio is on Grahamstown's musical menu for this week, as the Grahamstown Music Society presents its third concert of the year.
Replacing cellist Johannes Kubitschek for Austrian ensemble Trio Frizzante's South African tour will be Katarzyna Bieniasz-Morrison.
An all-women trio is on Grahamstown's musical menu for this week, as the Grahamstown Music Society presents its third concert of the year.
Replacing cellist Johannes Kubitschek for Austrian ensemble Trio Frizzante's South African tour will be Katarzyna Bieniasz-Morrison.
This young aspiring ensemble comprises three Austrian musicians, who love to share their passion for chamber music.
Doris Lindner (piano), Marlies Gaugl (flute) and Johannes Kubitschek (cello) played their debut in Vienna in 2009.
Since then they have been on tour and have had concerts across Europe.
The musicians inspire their audience by an extremely diverse repertoire throughout several musical epochs crossing classical music and jazz.
Besides playing in the trio, Marlies is the principal flautist of the Graz Opera, Johannes is a permanent member in the cello section of the Radio Symphonie Orchestra Vienna and Doris teaches at the Lower Austria music school association.
The Trio Frizzante was invited to play a concert tour for Jeunesse through Austria and were selected for the programme, New Austrian Sound of Music, supported by the Austrian cultural foreign ministry.
They have given concerts and master classes in Teheran, London and Warschau.
For the tour to South Africa they welcome Katarzyna Bieniasz-Morrison (cello) in the trio.
Since 2011, Katarzyna has been a member of the Cello section of The Graz Philharmonic Orchestra.
She completed her Master studies in performance Cello with professor Florian Kitt in 2011, as well as Chamber Music Masters with professor Chia Chou (Parnassus Trio) in 2014, both with distinction.
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Doris Lindner – Piano and Leader
The young Austrian concert pianist Doris Lindner studied piano at the Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität in Linz with Till A. Körber, and also at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts.
She graduated with distinction in piano, chamber music, and recorder teaching and performance.
She won an Erasmus scholarship for the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, where she studied with Peter Lawson. Doris has given recitals throughout Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Romania, England, Greece, Iceland and Taiwan.
She has appeared as a soloist with many orchestras and was invited by the International Youth Orchestra BISYOC to perform Liszt´s Piano Concerto No.2 at the famous Haydnsaal in Schloss Esterhazy.
Doris Lindner has participated in numerous master classes with many eminent musicians including György Kurtág, Bruno Canino, Ferenc Rados, Norma Fisher and Elisabeth Leonskaja. She is the recipient of several prizes in both national and international competitions.
She took the first prize in the International Carl Filtsch Competition in Sibiu in 2006, won the Yamaha-Stipendium-Austria and was awarded the Peter Donohoe Prize for her playing in 2007.
In 2008 she became a laureate of Yehudi Menuhin’s Live Music Now foundation.
She is the winner of the Start-Stipendium 2014/15 by the Austrian Federal Chancellery.
Doris is leading a piano and recorder class in a music school in Lower Austria.
She also did the accompaniment for the Musik-Akademie-Oberschützen and the Austrian Master Classes.
As a talented young artist she was selected for the Ö1 Talentebörse (Austrian Radio Cultural Award Programme) which led to CD productions and broadcasting on the national radio stations of Austria and Iceland.
Doris is touring with the London Recorder Quartet iFlautisti through Britain and was invited for several broadcastings on BBC 3.
She gives recitals as a soloist as well as a chamber musician.
With the Trio Frizzante, Doris is performing within the New Austrian Sounds of Music program supported by the Austrian cultural foreign ministry.
She has already performed in Teheran, Budapest, Warschau and London. South Africa is in a touring schedule that includes Spain and the US.
Marlies Gaugl – Flute
Marlies Gaugl, principal flautist of the Graz Opera (Grazer Philharmonic orchestra), had her first flute lessons at the music school Pöllau from Veronika Narrnhofer and Helmut Tomschitz.
During her training to become a kindergarten teacher, in 2000 she began her performance studies at the University of Music Oberschützen/Graz with Professor Herbert Weißberg.
There she completed her first degree with honours.
She also graduated with a Bachelor in Music Education.
As part of her Masters studies at the University for Music Vienna, with her main teacher Professor Hansgeorg Schmeiser, she studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique et Danse de Lyon with Philippe Bernold, Philippe Pierlot, Julien Beaudiment and Gilles Cottin.
Gaugl also studied with Erwin Klambauer at the University of Music Graz/ Oberschützen.
In January 2009 she was invited by Bösendorfer Taiwan as a jury member of the contest Europe Music Master of Music Competition in Taipei.
During this time she gave flute master classes and played recitals.
Gaugl appeared as a flute soloist with the Orchestra of the University for Arts and Performing Graz, with the Symphony Orchestra Kaposvar in Hungary and with different other ensembles at home and abroad.
She also received a grant from the Tokyo Foundation and prizes at the competition Prima La Musica.
Gaugl has played with various Austrian Orchestras including the Volksopera Vienna, Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tonkünstlerorchestra Niederösterreich, Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra, Recreation Graz, EUYO (European Union Youth Orchestra) and the Vienna Jeunesseorchesters.
Katarzyna Bieniasz-Morrison – Cello
Katarzyna Bieniasz-Morrison, born in Poland, completed her Master studies in 2008 with distinction at the Karol Szymanowski Music Academy in Katowice, Poland, with professor Pawel Glombik.
Bieniasz-Morrison is a recipient of the Socrates-Erasmus Foreign Exchange Programme Scholarship (2008), the Scholarship of the Austrian Republic (2009) and the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now! Styria scholarship.
Since 2008, she has studied at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz and completed her Master studies in performance (cello) with Professor Florian Kitt in 2011, as well as Chamber Music Masters with Professor Chia Chou (Parnassus Trio) in 2014.
In both she was awarded distinctions. Bieniasz-Morrison was awarded numerous prizes at national and international competitions, including third prize in the National Austrian Chamber Music Competition ‘Gradus ad Parnassum', first prize in the Martha Debelli Competition in Graz, Austria.
In February 2012, Katarzyna competed in the finals of the prestigious International Schubert Competitions as part of the Morrison Piano Trio, and in September 2013, won the Antonín Dvořák special prize at the 20th International Johannes Brahms Competition in Pörtschach.
Bieniasz-Morrison has attended master classes and workshops with such musicians as Bruno Cocset, Adalbert Skocic, Pawel Glombik, Tomasz Strahl, Anthony Spiri and Jeroen Reuling.
She has worked with numerous orchestras, projects and ensembles, including the Orchestra for New Music in Katowice, the Ensemble for Early Music, Il Sospiro, Junges Klangforum of Central Europe, and Collegium Musikum.
Since 2011, Bieniasz-Morrison has been a member of the cello section of The Graz Philharmonic Orchestra.
