REAL STUBAI autumn highlights: Concert for voice, viola, and piano

In the golden evening light

Performers:

Martina Gmeinder, mezzo-soprano

Klemens Lins, viola

Arndt Rausch, piano

Admission: voluntary donations welcome

Program

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy:

• Autumn Song
• Folk Song
• I wished my love would flow away with greetings
• Farewell Song of the Migratory Birds

Georg Friedrich Händel:

• My soul hears in seeing

Julius Johann Weiland:

• Rejoice in God, all lands

Johannes Brahms:

• Calmed Longing

Émile Jaques-Dalcroze:

• Tears

Pauline Viardot-Garcia:

• Allegro from Sonatina in D minor

Pauline Viardot-Garcia:

• The Stars

Heinrich Proch:

• My Wealth
• The Captured Nightingale
• The Singer and the Wanderer

Arndt Rausch

studied piano at the Conservatory of Würzburg, as well as at the University of Music in Cologne.
For over twenty years, he has lived in Vorarlberg and performs as a soloist, chamber musician (especially in the piano duo Klangrausch), and accompanist, including at the Bregenz Festival. At the Vorarlberg State Theater, he has repeatedly taken on the musical direction of productions, 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 Music School Bregenz and at the University of Education Vorarlberg. 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 as well as his musical fundamentals at the music school and state conservatory in the subjects of violin and viola. After graduating from high school, he studied viola at the music universities in Freiburg and Karlsruhe with Johannes Lüthy and in Hanover and Hamburg with Thomas Selditz. He played in the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra Freiburg, and the State Orchestra Kassel. After a temporary contract as deputy solo violist in the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck, he completed a degree in business administration and business 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 dedicating herself entirely to singing.
For many years now, she has worked as a freelance concert singer and devotes great joy 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 Bavarian Radio and in the Balthasar-Neumann-Chor under the direction of Thomas Hengelbrock. She has worked with conductors such as Manfred Honeck, Andris Nelsons, Ricardo Muti, Herbert Blomstedt, and Sir Simon Rattle. Her artistic career has taken her as far as Japan.
For more information, visit www.martinagmeinder.at