Ingrid Marsoner
is a wonderful pianist – her musical intelligence and unbelievable sensitivity, especially the clarity and intensity of her Schubert and Mozart interpretations have deeply moved me.” So the famous Swiss Composer Beat Furrer about Ingrid Marsoner

Biography - Concerts

The Austrian pianist Ingrid Marsoner is blessed with a musical sensitivity rarely to be found in the younger generation. Her Concerts and her CD-Recordings get greatest acclaim from the audience and from the International press.

Ingrid Marsoner is a regular guest at famous concert halls and at well-known Music Festivals. She performed at the Wiener Musikverein, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Merkin Hall/New York, the Kiev Philharmony, the Cultural Center Chicago or Shanghai Oriental Art Centre.

Above all she played at international Festivals such as the Vienna Festival Weeks, the Styriarte, the Carinthian Summer, the Steinway, the Festival in Arhus, or the Bravissimo Festival in Guatemala City. Also Ingrid Marsoner got invitations to give solo recitals at the Downers Grove Music Festival, the Philharmonic Society Gibraltar, the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series live for WFTM, the Sudtirol Classic Festival - Meraner Musikwochen, the Festival Intonazione on Elba and at many other places.

Collaboration

As a soloist Ingrid Marsoner was on stage with numerous orchestras and conductors, including the RSO - ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra under Cornelius Meister, the Biel Symphony Orchestra under Thomas Rösner and by invitation from Fabio Luisi the Graz Symphonic Orchestra.

Furthermore she performed with Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine under Mykola Dyadyura, with the Macedonian Chamber Orchestra under Paul Weigold and furthermore togehter with the Guatemala City Orchestra under Maestro del Carmen.

Finally Ingrid Marsoner interpretated Austrian´s first performance of Piano Concertos No.4 and No.5 by Darius Milhaud. While playing at Vienna Concerthaus, her partners were the Austrian Camber Symphonic Orchestra under Ernst Theis.

Also Ingrid Marsoner has appeared with such musicians as the Franz Schubert Quartet, Ernst Kovacic, Elis Meiri or Kit Armstrong. Furthermore Ingrid Marsoner has given several lecture recitals togehter with star-actor Klaus Maria Brandauer.

CD-Recordings

Five recordings have appeared with Gramola to great acclaim in the int. press: Piano Sonatas by Franz Schubert, Johann Sebastian Bach´s Goldberg Variations, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Concerto No. 1 in C major as well as Johann Nepomuk Hummel`s Piano Concerto in a Minor, togehter with the Biel Symphony Orchestra under Thomas Roesner.

Also she recorded some Piano Sonatas by Rick LaSalle (*1951) and piano works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Finally Ingrid Marsoner just released a new CD with late Piano Sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven.

Artistic influences

Ingrid Marsoner grew up in Graz and begun her studies already by the age of eleven, at the Graz University of Music in Graz with Sebastian Benda, a pupil of Edwin Fischer. Later she studied at the Vienna University of Music with the legend Russian pianist Rudolf Kerer. Finally Ingrid Marsoner got private lessons from famous pianists such as Tatjana Nikolaieva, Paul Badura-Skoda and Alfred Brendel.

Prizes and stipends

As a result the pianist has been awarded the Martha Debelli stipend of Graz University of Music as well as the Bosendorfer stipend of Vienna University of Music. She won first prizes in the Austrian Federal Competition, the Steinway Competition and the “Jeunesse musicale” Competition.

Above all she won the „Kawai prize“ (First Prize) at the Young Artists Peninsula Music Festival in Los Angeles. Finally Ingrid Marsoner was the youngest member in the piano jury at Int. Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig 2014.