Johanna Beisteiner
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Johanna Beisteiner live with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, 2009
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| Background information | |
| Born |
20 February 1976 Wiener Neustadt |
| Genres | Classical music, Film music |
| Occupation(s) | Guitarist |
| Instruments | Guitar |
| Years active | fl. ca. 1992 - present |
| Labels | Gramy Records |
| Website | www.beisteiner.com |
| Notable instruments | |
| Bernabe guitar | |
Johanna Beisteiner (born 20 February 1976) is an Austrian classical guitarist.
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, only sixteen 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.
Johanna Beisteiner is an internationally active guitar soloist, 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 and Eduard Shafransky. Moreover, she worked with known orchestras such as the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Sochi Symphony Orchestra, Graz Chamber Philharmonic and the Budapest Strings Chamber Orchestra, renowned conductors such as Béla Drahos, Achim Holub 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. In 2012 she composed her first own piece Zemlinsky's Night on themes by Alexander von Zemlinsky. With the Austrian actress Heidrun Samstag she presents since 2013 the literary-music evening Farkas discovers America dedicated to Karl Farkas.
Johanna Beisteiner plays on classical Spanish guitars made by Paulino Bernabe Senior and Junior.
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