REAL STUBAI Autumn Highlights: Concert for Piano, Viola, and Mezzo-Soprano

Concert for piano, viola, and mezzo-soprano

In the golden evening light

Performers:

Arndt Rausch, piano

Klemens Lins, viola

Martina Gmeinder, singing

Arndt Rausch

studied piano at the Würzburg Conservatory as well as at the University of Music in Cologne.
He has lived in Vorarlberg for over twenty years and performs as a soloist, chamber musician (especially in the piano duo Klangrausch), and rehearsal pianist, among others, at the Bregenz Festival. At the Vorarlberg State Theater, he has taken on the musical direction of productions multiple times, including the children’s opera “The Stage Deaths of My Mother,” in which he also appeared on stage.
With great passion, Arndt Rausch dedicates himself to his teaching activities at the Bregenz Music School and at the Vorarlberg University of Education. Numerous of his students have won awards at national and international competitions.

Klemens Lins

Klemens Lins was born in 1978 in Feldkirch and completed his schooling and musical basic education at the music school and state conservatory in the subjects of violin and viola. After graduating, he studied viola at the music colleges in Freiburg and Karlsruhe with Johannes Lüthy and in Hanover and Hamburg with Thomas Selditz. He played in the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, the Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra, and the State Orchestra Kassel. After a fixed-term contract as deputy principal violist in the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck, he completed a degree in business administration and organizational psychology.
Klemens Lins has been a member of the Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra since 1998 and has been a permanent member of the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck since 2011.

Martina Gmeinder

The mezzo-soprano Martina Gmeinder comes from Wolfurt/Vorarlberg and initially studied mathematics, school music, and instrumental music education before fully specializing in singing.
She has been working for many years as a freelance concert singer and joyfully dedicates herself to song singing in addition to church music. Her repertoire includes over 140 alto parts from the early Baroque to the modern era.
Martina Gmeinder is a freelance collaborator in the choir of the Bavarian Radio and in the Balthasar Neumann Choir under the direction of Thomas Hengelbrock. She has worked with conductors such as Manfred Honeck, Andris Nelsons, Riccardo Muti, Herbert Blomstedt, and Sir Simon Rattle. Her artistic career has taken her as far as Japan.
For more information visit www.martinagmeinder.at