Michi Gaigg

Michi Gaigg ( born April 22, 1957 in Attersee am Attersee ) is an Austrian violinist and conductor and music educator with a focus on Baroque music.

She is the founder of L' arpa festante Munich and the L' Orfeo Baroque Orchestra and since 2003 director of the festival Donaufestwochen in Upper and Lower Austria Strudengau. In 2008 she was awarded the Grand stagecraft the province of Upper Austria.

Career and occupation

She studied violin at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, where she received decisive impulses for their later musical career by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and later baroque violin with Ingrid Seifert and Sigiswald Kuijken. She played in various ensembles, for example, under the conductor Frans Brüggen, Alan Curtis, Christopher Hogwood, René Jacobs and Hermann Max and founded in 1983 with L' arpa Festante an orchestra and led it until 1995.

After their stay in London, The Hague, Munich, Cologne, Strasbourg and Tübingen, she returned to Austria and founded together with Carin van Heerden, L' Orfeo Barockorchester.Sie began her teaching career in 1987 at the Conservatoire National de Strasbourg and has been teaching since 1994 Anton Bruckner Private University Linz early music and historical performance practice.

Performances

Among the significant co-designed by her opera performances in the context of Donaufestwochen on the Greinburg includes (selection):

  • Don Quixote at the wedding of Comacho by Georg Philipp Telemann
  • Zaide by W. A. Mozart ( 2005)
  • Romeo and Juliet by Georg Anton Benda (2007)
  • The desert island ( German -speaking late version of the opera L'isola disabitata ) by Joseph Haydn
  • Almira, Queen of Castile by Georg Friedrich Handel (2009)
  • Orpheus or The wonderful constancy of love by Georg Philipp Telemann (2012 )

Awards

  • 2007 the performing arts the province of Upper Austria
  • 2011 Culture Medal of the Province of Upper Austria
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