Michael Posch, recorder
The Carinthian, trained in Vienna and Trossingen, belongs to the first squad of Austrian recorder players. With a variety of ensembles, including the Concentus Musicus, he plays especially the main baroque field of recorder literature, but has also rendered outstanding services to modern music. Tours and guest performances take him halfway around the world.
About the artist
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Roots
Born in Klagenfurt, Michael Posch studied recorder, first at the Carinthian State Conservatory, then at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and at the University of Music in Trossingen.
Repertoire and collaborations
He is considered an interpreter of modern recorder literature in collaboration with the "Österreichische Kammersymphoniker", but is also co-author of an early music publication. His concert activities have taken him not only to the major venues in Austria, such as the Konzerthaus and the Musikverein in Vienna, Melk Abbey, the Styriarte, the Brucknerhaus Linz and Ambras Palace in Innsbruck, but also to almost every country in Europe, as well as to Moscow, Canada, Taiwan, Turkey, Morocco, Israel, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
Recordings
Numerous CD, radio and television recordings, both as a soloist and in various early music ensembles ("Accentus", "Oni Wytars", "Clemencic Consort" and "Concentus Musicus") bear witness to his musical activity.
Since 1991 he has led the Ensemble Unicorn, which specialises in early music.
Teaching
He gives master classes for recorder at the "Higher Institute for Western Music" in Damascus, at the "Royal Conservatory Amman", at the "Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussels" and teaches recorder as well as early music at the "Konservatorium Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien", where he also heads the only "Early Music Department" in Austria.
