Irena Grafenauer

Irena Count Auer ( born June 1, 1957 in Ljubljana, Slovenia) is a Slovenian flutist.

Life

Irena Count Auer's musical education began at the age of eight. After graduating in 1974 at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana, she studied with Boris Campa, Karlheinz Zöller and Aurèle Nicolet. Since October 1987, she taught as an associate professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

From 1977 to 1987 Graf Auer served as principal flutist of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Since 1987 she has worked as a soloist. She previously worked with renowned orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the German Chamber Philharmonic, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields together. In 1995 she was a guest at the Salzburg Festival, 1996, she toured Europe, Japan, Taiwan, Korea and the United States.

Count Auer engaged, inter alia, to for the promotion of young musical talent in the " music lessons Exchange", a project of the Mozarteum Salzburg.

2002 ill Grafenauer of chronic myeloid leukemia with the Philadelphia chromosome.

Awards

Irena Count Auer won several international competitions, including first prize in Geneva and Belgrade (both 1974) and Munich (1979). Its more than 20 recordings by Philips were provided with several awards. In 2005 she was awarded the Prešeren Award, the highest award Culture of Slovenia, excellent.