Margot Oitzinger
Margot
Oitzinger was born in Graz/Austria, and started her musical education
at the Joahnn-Joseph-Fux conservatory in Graz on the flute. Upon
leaving school, she studied singing at the University of Art in Graz
with Annemarie Zeller, Rosemarie Schmied and Tom Sol. During her time
in Graz she spent six months in Lugano, Switzerland, studying with
Luisa Castellani.
Margot Oitzinger also
participated in
several renaissance and baroque courses with Jill Feldman, Emma Kirkby
and Peter Kooij. She is second pricewinner of the International
Johann-Sebastian- Bach competition in Leipzig 2008, with “La Gioconda”
she won the special ensemble price at the Johann Heinrich
Schmelzer-Wettbewerb in Melk 2008 and she won second price of the
international baroque singing competition in Chimay (Belgium) 2006.
As
a soloist she worked with ensembles such as The Dunedin Consort
(recording of Bach’s b-minor mass will be published this year), the
Concerto Copenhagen, L’Orfeo Barockorchester, the Wiener Akademie, Le
concert Lorrain, the Bach Consort, the Capella Savaria and the Capella
Leopoldina.
Her concert repertoire includes the alto roles in numerous
oratorios and cantatas mostly from the early and late Baroqueperiode.
As well as Lieder- and chanson concerts Margot Oitzinger appeared in
several baroque Operas (Händel, Vivaldi, Gluck, Haydn) in the
Kammeroper Vienna and Graz and Schloß Greinburg.
Her opera
and
concert engagements included appearences at international festivals
such as the Leipziger Bachfest, Bachfest Salzburg, Händelfestival in
Halle and the Styriarte.
Her performing schedule has taken her so far besides Austria to
Germany, Italy Switzerland, France, England, Bulgaria, South Africa,
Singapore and the Phillipines. www.oitzinger.com
Lucia Froihofer
Lucia
Froihofer was born in Graz/Austria and studied violin and pedagogy at
the University of Music and Dramatic Art in Graz. After her studies she
specialized in playing on period instruments at the Hochschule für
Musik und Theater in Leipzig with Prof. Susanne Scholz, with Sigiswald
Kuijken in Brussels and with Enrico Gatti in Italy.
She
teaches baroque violin at the University for Music and Dramatic Art and
violin and chamber music at the Conservatory of Graz where she is also
leading the chamber orchestra of this school.
She plays
regularly in several chamber music groups like Armonico Tributo
Austria, barocco locco Amsterdam or chordae freybergensis, formed her
own ensembles (tre paesi, La Gioconda,…) and is also asked to play in
different baroque orchestras, often as concertmaster.
Concerts
at several (Early Music) Festivals (Styriarte, Bachfest Leipzig, Ruhr
Triennale, Salzburger Festspiele ecc.). CD productions in Germany,
Austria, Italy, Netherlands. Finalist of the Telemann-Violincompetition
in Magdeburg 2005, special price at the Schmelzer-Competition in Melk
2008. www.barockvioline.at
Barbara Reiter
Barbara
Reiter was born in Raab, Austria. She developed an interest in period
instrument performance while studying cello at the
Anton-Bruckner-Universität Linz. This led to a postgraduate degree in
baroque cello at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, USA, where she was
a scholarship student of Catharina Meints.
During the final year of her studies in the USA, Barbara was offered a
place in the European Union Baroque Orchestra 2001, which launched her
career as a period instrument specialist. Since then she has performed
througout Europe and further afield with groups including
Lauttencompagney Berlin, Dresdner Barockorchester, L'Orfeo
Barockorchester, Sweelinck Players (London), La Stravaganza Köln,
Musical&Amicable Society (England) and Wiener Akademie.
Barbara is founding member of Barucco, La Gioconda, the pan-european ensemble Bizzaries and Trio 1800.
Anne Marie Dragosits
Anne
Marie Dragosits was born in Hall in Tirol/Austria. She studied Cembalo
with Wolfgang Glüxam at the University of music and dramatic art in
Vienna and with Ton Koopman and Tini Mathot at the Koninklijk
Concervatroium Den Haag. She perfected her continuo skills at courses
with Lars Ulrik Mortensen and Jesper Christensen. As a soloist and a
continuo player she performs with groups like Barocksolisten München, musica alchemica, Vivante,
Barucco, les sentiments, Neue Münchner Hofkapelle, progetto semiserio,
Capella Leopoldina, L’Orfeo Barockorchester, Marini Consort Innsbruck
and Camerata Salzburg. She performs
regularly as a Duo with the spanish baroque violin player Lina
Tur-Bonet.
She also teaches at the University of art in
Graz.