Astrid Spitznagel
Born in Niederösterreich, she had first piano lessons at the age of 4, learnt the violin at 9 and autodidactically the flute at 16. Since 1972 she studied piano with Dieter Weber in Vienna, followed in 1976 by studies at the Hochschule (today: University) fuer Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna: concert exam with piano, chamber music with piano (diploma 1982), concert exam with flute (diploma with unanimous distinction and prize of acknowledgement of the Austrian Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung), concert exam with clavicembalo and music education (teaching profession with unanimous distinction and prize of acknowledgement of the Austrian Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Flute teaching profession with distinction).
Since 1983 she has worked as repetiteur at the University fuer Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna.
As Piano and flute player as well as cembalo player, most of all accompanying the legendary double bass virtuoso Ludwig Streicher, she performed numerous concerts and taught master classes in Europe, USA, Canada, Japan, Taiwan and Korea.
She had CD- and radiobroadcasts as well as international TV-appearances..
As a composer she wrote orchestra-, chamber-, sacral- and film music, Lieder and instrumental works, which have been performed through Europe, USA, China and Brasil and published by mvam. Her works are dedicated to and interpreted by: Carole Dawn Reinhart, Robert Lehrbaumer, Margit Fussi, Siegfried Fuehrlinger, Meininger-Trio, Radio Sinfonieorchester Bukarest, Opern-Philharmonische Gesellschaft Varna, Staatsphilharmonie Vidin etc.
Two academic works - one dissertation - have already been written about her Pezzo Pazzo for trumpet and piano.