Fritz Kircher
With his two violins, the Carinthian covers the field of historical practice as well as that of modern sound. As first violinist of the Haydn Quartet and member of other chamber music ensembles, he performs on the major international stages. He is also closely associated with the Styriarte as guest concertmaster of the Recreation Orchestra.
About the artist
COMMUTER BETWEEN HISTORIC AND MODERN SOUND
Roots and education
Fritz Kircher was born in Klagenfurt in 1970. He received his first and essential basics from Alfred Lösch at the Carinthian State Conservatory, followed by a six-year course of study with Ernst Kovacic and Klara Flieder. Fritz Kircher then completed his studies with Wilhelm Melcher in Stuttgart with a soloist's diploma and with distinction.
This was followed by an intensive build-up of a very wide-ranging chamber music activity, which Fritz Kircher pursued on both historical and modern instruments.
Records
In recent years alone he has released more than 25 CDs with the ensembles Ars Antiqua Austria, Collegium Wartberg and with his Haydn Quartet. With this quartet, with which he regularly performs in many of the most important music centres in Europe and Asia, he will create his own chamber music cycle in the Brahmssaal of the Vienna Musikverein from May 2019.
Collaborations
His chamber music partners include Rudolf Leopold, Ariane Haering, Ernst Kovacic, Anna Magdalena Kokits and the tenor Jan Petryka, with whom a CD recording of "Winterreise" arranged by Fritz Kircher for string quartet and voice will be produced before the end of 2019.
His activities as a soloist and as concertmaster of orchestras such as Recreation Graz, Tonkünstler Kammer-Orchester, Die Schloss Capelle and janus Ensemble Wien should be mentioned, as well as the violin concerto dedicated to him by Christoph Cech, which he premiered in the Großer ORF Sendesaal with the ensemble "die reihe".
Instrument
Historical instruments have a strong fascination for him. For modern playing he uses a violin by Camillus Camilli from 1742, for historical playing a violin by Franz Geissenhof, Vienna 1802.
