Biography Michaela Riener The Austrian Vocalist Michaela Riener Focuses

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Biography: Michaela Riener
The Austrian vocalist Michaela Riener focuses on Historical
Performance Practice and Contemporary Music.
She received her Bachelors Degree in Classical Singing (2008) and her
Master’s Degree in Early Music Singing (2010) from the Royal
Conservatory in The Hague, studying with Jill Feldman, Lenie van den
Heuvel, Gerda van Zelm, Michael Chance, and Peter Kooij.
A versatile artist, Michaela Riener is constantly expanding her
vocabulary and technique. With her own groups she concentrates on
searching for new repertoire as well as new ways of performance. Her
passion for chamber music and her background as a pianist has led to
her involvement in several unique ensembles, including the Austrian
Early Music group Calamus Consort - with whom she won first price in
the International Biber competition in 2009 - Trio Luscinia and the
Belgium vocal quartet Encantar.
Coached by Sigrid ‘tHooft she specializes in Baroque Gesture – the
acting technique of the 17th & 18th century.
Michaela performs regularly with the Huelgas Ensemble, the Egidius
College, De Nederlandse Bachvereniging and VocaalLab.
Michaela Riener is a dedicated advocate of contemporary music and
works closely with composers. She is the singer of ELECTRA, a virtuoso
four-member ensemble, the contemporary music band Hexnut and
RPMelectro, a new group of composer Kate Moore.
Recent solo engagements include performances of works by Steve Reich
and Hanns Eisler with the Asko|Schönberg Ensemble and Louis
Andriessen’s “La Passione” at Prague Spring Festival 2008 and the
Birmingham Frontiers Festival 2010. With Ensemble Klang, she performed
Martijn Padding’s work “Speculum inversum” at festivals in the Czech
Republic and in The Netherlands. Under the direction of David
Robertson, Riener soloed in Louis Andriessen’s work TAO, together with
the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
In 2009/10 Michaela Riener was collaborating with New York-based
composer Michael Gordon and the dance company EmioGreco / PC in
“Popopera”, with performances in the Holland Festival and worldwide.
With her Anstatt dass Trio, Michaela Riener takes yet another
direction. With a saxophonist and a marimba player, the trio performs
music from the twenties and thirties, interpreting Brecht’s texts in
songs by Eisler, Dessau, and Weill.
In 2012 she celebrates together with ensemble BloedRood the hundredth
birthday of Schönberg’s ‘Pierrot Lunaire’ in the performance
“Albertine”.