Grandes Dames Marilies Guschlbauer & Julia Rinderle

• Clara Schumann (1819 - 1896): 3 Romances, Op. 22:
• 1 Schumann: 3 Romances, Op. 22: No. 3, Leidenschaftlich schnell (Performed on Cello & Piano) 04:00
• Lera Auerbach ((b. 1973): Postlude for Cello and Piano:
• 2 Auerbach: Postlude for Cello and Piano 03:01
• Fanny Hensel (1805 - 1847): Capriccio in A-Flat Major, H-U. 247:
• 3 Hensel: Capriccio in A-Flat Major, H-U. 247 07:21
• Amy Beach (1867 - 1944): 4 Sketches, Op. 15:
• 4 Beach: 4 Sketches, Op. 15: No. 3, Dreaming (Version for Cello & Piano) 05:11
• Flora Geisselbrecht (b. 1994): Mein Schatten kann übers Wasser gehen:
• 5 Geisselbrecht: Mein Schatten kann übers Wasser gehen 06:47
• Rita Strohl (1865 - 1941): Sonate dramatique "Titus et Bérénice":
• 6 Strohl: Sonate dramatique "Titus et Bérénice": I. Moderato – Molto movimento "Intercertitude de Titus" 13:34
• 7 Strohl: Sonate dramatique "Titus et Bérénice": II. Vivace "Appartements de Bérénice" 05:03
• 8 Strohl: Sonate dramatique "Titus et Bérénice": III. Lento – Tristamente "Bérénice sait tout" 07:06
• 9 Strohl: Sonate dramatique "Titus et Bérénice": IV. Allegro molto movimento "Le terrible moment approche" 10:12
• Solitude:
• 10 Strohl: Solitude 04:03
• Total Runtime 01:06:18

Info for Grandes Dames

Women had to struggle for recognition as composers well into the 20th century, and many of their works remain undiscovered because music, like painting and literature, was considered a predominantly male domain for a long time. Why do you think it's important to focus on female composers?

Statistics reveal a bleak picture of the limited impact of female composers in all areas of classical music. Yet there are so many treasures to be unearthed! We aim to rediscover this wonderful music, which was thought to have been forgotten, and to perform as much of it as possible. The fact that these works also enrich the constantly growing yet comparatively small body of repertoire written for cello and piano is, of course, a bonus.... (from the booklet notes)

You'll find works by six “Grandes Dames”: Clara Schumann, Fanny Hensel, Lera Auerbach, Amy Beach, Flora Geisselbrecht, and Rita Strohl. Which criteria did you use in making your selection?

Rita Strohl’s Sonata has been part of our concerts for several years now, and we wanted to introduce that work with a series of shorter works to begin the album. Thus, although the first five pieces are thoroughly different, the order we have chosen for them is deliberate; we feel that there is a kind of common thread running through them. The track-list is conceived like a concert programme; the last piece, Rita Strohl’s melancholy “Solitude”, fulfills the function of an encore.

Marilies Guschlbauer, cello
Julia Rinderle, piano

Marilies Guschlbauer
The young cellist Marilies Guschlbauer from Austria stands out characterized by her warm, natural tone with high creative standards, which she demonstrates both as an enthusiastic chamber musician and as Soloist with orchestra can be heard in a rousing way.

She was a guest at festivals such as the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival, the Quincena Musical San Sebastian, the Cello Biennale Amsterdam, the Verbier Festival Academy, the City of London Festival, the Franconian Music Days, the Salzburg Chamber Music Festival and the KlangReisen cycle, as well as at the “Next Generation” festival in Switzerland, the Traisental Culture Festival and the Hopfgarten Chamber Music Festival. As part of this, she performed together with well-known artists such as Nicolas Altstaedt, Vilde Frang, Ilya Gringolts, Clemens Hagen, Lena Neudauer, Lawrence Power, Eckart Runge, Candida Thompson, Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, Alexandra Tirsu, Annika Treutler, Florian Birsak, Dominik Wagner, William Youn and Christoph Zimper. Marilies Guschlbauer has also performed in various chamber music formations in the USA, Mexico, Poland, Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Greece, Moldova and Italy. Further solo and chamber music concerts took her to the Golden Hall and Brahms Hall of the Musikverein Wien, to the Mozart Hall and Schubert Hall of the Vienna Konzerthaus and to the Great Hall and Chamber Music Hall of the Berlin Konzerthaus.

She regularly performs as a duo with the pianist Julia Rinderle in Germany and Austria. The duo’s debut concert at the Musikverein Vienna, as well as a CD production with the CAvi-Music label, are planned for autumn 2023. Marilies Guschlbauer is also a founding member of the Trio Parémi, with whom she made her debut at the Vienna Konzerthaus as a Musica Juventutis prizewinner and completed successful tours through Poland and Austria. In 2023 they were guests at the Musikverein Vienna for the second time. The trio is set to collaborate with Jeunesse for the coming season. As a member of the Artel Quartet (since autumn 2022), she reached the final of the international Haydn Chamber Music Competition 2023 and performed at the Mozart Days in Bad Reichenhall, in the Mürz Classic concert series and in the Austrian Embassy in London. The performance of Schönberg’s concert for string quartet and orchestra is planned for 2024. As a member of the Ensemble Ramé, founded in 2023, she was able to win three awards from the ISA – International Summer Academy 2023, including the Bohuslav Martinů Prize, the Piano Chamber Music Prize and the Vienna Classical Prize.

Marilies Guschlbauer made her debut as a soloist with the North German Philharmonic Rostock under the direction of Wojciech Rajski with Robert Schumann’s cello concerto as part of the summer campus of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival. At a young age, she toured as a soloist with the Young Masters to various cities in Japan and to the concert hall of the “Forbidden City” in Beijing and to EXPO Shanghai in China. This was followed by appearances with Beethoven’s Triple Concerto in Hanover (2021) and in Vienna (2023). In 2024 she will perform Dvorak’s Cello Concerto with the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra in the Nikolaisaal Potsdam and Brandenburg Theater.

In addition to numerous first prizes and special prizes at the Austrian youth competition “Prima la Musica” at the federal level, Marilies Guschlbauer is a prize winner at the Manhattan International Music Competition and the Liezen International Cello Competition. With her brother Nikolaus Guschlbauer on the piano, she won the chamber music competition ON STAGE 2018 as a duo and the international competition “Giovani Musicisti – Città di Treviso” in 2019. In 2020 Marilies was recognized as an “mdw artist” and in 2022 she received the Interpretation Prize of the Mozart Community in Vienna. She is currently a scholarship holder of the Villa Musica Rhineland-Palatinate Foundation.

Marilies Guschlbauer completed her bachelor’s degree with Clemens Hagen at the Mozarteum Salzburg and her master’s degree with Nicolas Altstaedt at the Hanns Eisler University of Music Berlin in 2023 with honors and will begin the master’s degree in chamber music with Johannes Meissl at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna starting in the fall to record. The young Austrian was a student at the Liechtenstein Music Academy, took part in the Kronberg Academy and received additional musical impulses in other master classes from Wolfgang Böttcher, Hatto Beyerle, Gautier Capuçon, Eberhard Feltz, Gary Hoffman, Robert Levin, Jens-Peter Maintz, Nils Mönkemeyer, Lawrence Power, Heinrich Schiff, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Rainer Schmidt (Hagen Quartet), Julian Steckel, Torleif Thedéen, Gábor Takács-Nagy and others.

Julia Rinderle
The promising young German pianist Julia Rinderle fascinates her audience with a strong stage presence and highly sensitive and profound playing. Julia’s many concerts have taken her to numerous cities throughout Germany and Europe to Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands, South Africa, Israel, China and the USA. She has been invited to perform at the “Köthener Bachfesttage” and at the “International Music Festival Goslar” as well as at the famous Tivoli Concert Hall Copenhagen, the “Gläserner Saal” at Musikverein, Vienna and the “Herkulessaal” in Munich.

Moreover, she played concerts in the USA at the famous Piano Festival “Pianofest in the Hamptons” and went on a China Tour with six solo recitals in 2019.

Julia Rinderle completed her Master’s program in chamber music at the University Mozarteum Salzburg in the class of Professor Imre Rohmann with the highest marks, as well as her Master’s degree in piano solo performance at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media with Professor Roland Krüger.

In addition, through master classes for piano and chamber music, she has received significant artistic guidance from famous luminaries like Bernd Glemser, Matthias Kirschnereit, Bernd Goetzke, Emanuel Ax, Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Paul Schenly, Paul Badura-Skoda and Arie Vardi.

At just 13 years of age, she gave her first performance as a soloist with symphony orchestra, and since then has regularly performed concertos with orchestras including “The Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Sopot”.

Julia Rinderle held scholarships from the sought-after „Deutschland- Stipendium“, the scholarship “Musik braucht Freunde” Hannover and the “Rupert-Gabler-Stiftung”.

She has received numerous prizes at national and international music competitions, including first prize at the “Steinway” Competition in Munich and second prize at the International Chamber Music Competition “Charles Hennen Competition” in Heerlen (Netherlands) with her piano trio. In addition, she was given the third prize at the International Piano Competition “Concorso Argento” in Italy and won four different special prizes at the international “Münchner Klavierpodium”. Moreover, Julia Rinderle won the 16th international “Louis- Spohr- Wettbewerb” as well as the audience award and was awarded first prize at the international piano competition „Lia Tortora“ in Italy. Furthermore, she won the „II. International Youth Piano Competition“ in Troisdorf, Germany and received the Silver Medal together with violinist Sophia Herbig at the “5th Manhattan International Music Competition”.

She received the 2023 Cultural Prize of the City of Memmingen and is winner of the 2024 Music Promotion Prize of the District of Swabia. In February 2016, Julia Rinderle released her Debut CD with the world premiere recording of the “Ghostly scenes” by Anselm Hüttenbrenner, which received enthusiastic reviews. Her second solo album „Schubertiade on piano“ has been released in May 2019 with the German Label ARS Produktion.

From 2019 till 2022 Julia Rinderle has been working as a piano docent at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media and is now teaching also as docent for piano a at the University of Music and Drama in Leipzig.

She has also given several master classes for piano, a.o. at the “International Summer Festival” in Troisdorf.

Mrs. Rinderle is a very many-sided artist. She enjoys presenting her concerts and giving the audience useful and enjoyable information about the pieces she will perform. She is also experienced in performing contemporary music and its special effects or methods (such as John Cage’s “Prepared Piano”) as well as early music on harpsichord and pianoforte. Julia is a skilled and passionate chamber musician and has performed with many different instruments, including the clarinet, flute, oboe, trumpet, trombone, tuba, percussion instruments, violin, viola, and cello, as well as with singers

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