Beauty Unveiled
A Concert Celebrating the Individuality of Beauty
May 20th - 7pm.
Alte Schieberkammer, 1150 Wien
Participting Musicians
Florentina Serles
Florentina Serles was born in Vienna in 2003. She first came into contact with music through dance, which led to a 15-year training in ballet, jazz dance, and show dance. At the age of five, she began taking violin lessons and sang annually as a member of the "Young Summer Academy St. Andrä Wördern" ensemble led by Titus Hollweg. Between 2017 and 2020, she participated in numerous youth musical productions at the Performing Center Austria, where she was nominated for the "Papageno Award" in the "Lead Role" category in 2019. In 2018, she began her classical singing training with KS Annely Peebo at the J.G. Albrechtsberger Music School. Later, she graduated from the International School Klosterneuburg and simultaneously completed the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. Currently, she is studying singing at the Mozarteum University Salzburg in the class of Bernd Valentin (previously with Barbara Bonney). In 2022, under the direction of Gernot Sahler and Alexander von Pfeil, she made her opera debut as Nancy in Albert Herring at the Mozarteum. She is currently a guest at the Landestheater Linz in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (musical direction: Markus Poschner).
Dominika Witowicz
Dominika Witowicz graduated from the class of Prof. Wiesław Kwaśny at the Academy of Music in Kraków. As of 2019, she is studying in the class of Prof. Dominika Falger at the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien. Among Dominika's important inspirations, she lists participation in masterclasses with the Kronos Quartet, Evgenia Epstein, the Summer Academy with the Scharoun Ensemble der Berliner Philharmoniker and the Music Festival & Master Class Piła with Bartłomiej Nizioł and Andrej Bielow. She has won first prizes at both chamber music and solo competitions - highlights include the Art-Duo Festival in Prague, the Fidelio Competition in Vienna; chamber music competitions in Copenhagen, Sogliano al Rubicone and Berlin, and a special prize for best violinist at the Malta International Music Competition.
She appeared as soloist at the Rzeszów Philharmonic performing the Violin Concerto Op. 5 No. 5 by H. Vieuxtemps. She has collaborated with orchestras: Wiener Concert-Verein, Vienna Classical Players, Concertgebouw Orchestra, NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic, Krakow Philharmonic. She has participated in many orchestral festivals, including the Esker Music Festival (Ireland), Orchestraakademie der Bregenzer Festspiele der Wiener Symphoniker, Styriarte-Festspielorchester (conducted by A. Orozco-Estrada), Young Polish Philharmonic.
Fabian Mittermayer
He was born in Vienna in 2003, moved to Weidling/Klosterneuburg at the age of seven. At the age of six he started playing the violin with Snezana Kis at the Johann Georg Albrechtsberger Musikschule Klosterneuburg, since the age of eight he has been playing the piano with the fortepiano specialist Hrvoje Jugovic and since 2018 he has also been learning jazz piano with Erwin Schmidt. Fabian has participated in the "prima la musica" competition since 2012 both as a violinist and as a pianist and has regularly been awarded first prizes and special prizes. In May 2018 he won the best prize “Primo Premio Assoluto” in his age group at the international competition “Concorso musicale” in Palmanova (Italy). In autumn 2019 he won first prize with Filip Trifu (piano) as a duo in the chamber music category at the “International Forum Musical Performance and Pedagogy” competition in Klosterneuburg. Since March 2019, Fabian is the concertmaster of the JSO (Lower Austria Youth Symphony Orchestra). He has performed in international concert halls, including the Konzerthaus Vienna, Grafenegg Auditorium, Pingtung Performing Arts Center in Taiwan and also Carnegie Hall in New York. Fabian plays a French violin made by Emile Germain in Paris in 1876. Since 2021 Fabian is studying violin with Prof. Klara Flieder at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and computer science at the Vienna University of Technology.
Samuel Eder
Samuel Eder studied with renowned professors such as Reinhard Wieser, Fabio Di Casola, and Francesco Negrini in Vienna, Zurich, and Feldkirch. As a member of various chamber music ensembles, he performed at numerous festivals for chamber music and contemporary music in the German-speaking region. Samuel is passionately engaged at the intersection of classical and jazz. His musical work has led him to recordings for SRF, Ö1, and Radio Vorarlberg.