Recreation - Das Orchester

Beginning

Recreation was formed for a first concert season in 2002 from musicians, who had previously earned their artistic laurels in the ranks of the Graz Symphony Orchestra. In addition to its concert cycles in Graz, the orchestra has also performed at the Styriarte, in Vienna's Musikvereinssaal, at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, at steirischer herbst, at the Jazzsommer Graz and many more.

Members

Most of the members of the orchestra have one thing in common: they received at least a part of their education at the Graz University of Music or teach there themselves, at the Styrian State Conservatory or at other Styrian music schools. Their nationalities also make the collective of orchestra musicians something special: They come from half of Europe (Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Poland, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Czech Republic, etc.) and thus represent a small-scale image of this Southeast European region of the future. The Graz University of Music constantly attracts young talents for training. They often take the opportunity to demonstrate their skills as guest musicians in the Recreation Orchestra. With these young artists, the orchestra's changing nationality panorama expands to Japan, Spain or the Ukraine, but also to Cuba, Venezuela and New Zealand.

Conductors

Recreation can refer to its collaboration with outstanding conductors such as Andrés Orozco-Estrada (principal conductor from 05 to 09) and Jordi Savall. From 2012 to 2017, the renowned Munich maestro Michael Hofstetter shaped the orchestra as principal conductor. Female conductors have been the norm for Recreation for a long time. For example, the 2021/22 season will see the appointment of Mei-Ann Chen, a Taiwanese-American, as principal conductor.

Early Music

Recreation - Das Orchester has also worked on programmes with many important early music performers. Together with the former principal conductor Michael Hofstetter, himself a proven specialist in original sound, an extra formation from the orchestra concentrated on gut strings and old tuning for historical performance practice. The orchestra made its debut at the renowned Styriarte Festival, and concert tours to Versailles and Lyon, to the Schubertiade in Hohenems and to the international Gluck Opera Festival in Nuremberg followed. Since the 2013/14 season, the baroque fraction of Recreation has been organising a cycle in the Minoritensaal.

Sponsorship

Since 2020, Steiermärkische Sparkasse has been the main sponsor of the orchestra Recreation.

The musicians (Großes Orchester)

CONCERT MASTER ∙ Wolfgang Redik ∙ Maria Kubizek ∙ VIOLINES ∙ Marina Bkhiyan ∙ Sarah Drake-Goraj ∙ Aya Georgieva ∙ Daniela Hölbling ∙ Yanet Infanzón La O ∙ Albana Laci ∙ Michael Leitner ∙ Catharina Liendl ∙ Angelika Messanegger ∙ Simone Mustein ∙ Diana Redik ∙ Nicolás Sánchez ∙ Christiane Schwab ∙ Toshie Shibata ∙ Katharina Stangl ∙ Gabriele Vollmer ∙ Anja Wobak-Eder ∙ Volker Zach ∙ Georgios Zacharoudis ∙ VIOLEN ∙ Agnieszka Kapron-Nabl ∙ Wolfram Fortin ∙ Annamaria Guth ∙ Martyna Hornbachner ∙ Simona Petrean ∙ Lucas Schurig-Breuß ∙ Wolfgang Stangl ∙ Thomas Széll ∙ Andreas Trenkwalder ∙ VIOLONCELLI ∙ Gunde Hintergräber ∙ Boglárka Bakó ∙ Charlotte Hirschberg ∙ Sigrid Narowetz ∙ Judit Pap ∙ Martina Trunk ∙ Jan Zdansky ∙ CONTRABASSES ∙ Andreas Farnleitner ∙ Venice Jayawardhena-Meditz ∙ Lorena Martín Alarcón ∙ Sebastian Rastl ∙ FLUTES ∙ Maria Beatrice Cantelli ∙ Eva Eibinger ∙ Petra Reiter ∙ Heide Wartha ∙ OBOES ∙ Hanami Sakurai ∙ Helene Kenyeri ∙ Paul Maier ∙ Andrej Skorobogatko ∙ Eszter Sinka ∙ CLARINETS ∙ Gregor Narnhofer ∙ Arnold Plankensteiner ∙ SAXOPHONES ∙ Clemens Frühstück ∙ BASSOONS∙ Tonia Solle ∙ Ivan Calestani ∙ Andor Csonka ∙ Elvira Weidl ∙ HORNS∙ Matthias Predota ∙ Michael Hofbauer ∙ Radu Petrean ∙ Karl-Heinz Tappler ∙ TROMPETS ∙ Karlheinz Kunter ∙ Stefan Hausleber ∙ TROMBONES ∙ Christian Godetz ∙ Alexander Ladreiter ∙ Daniel Pallier ∙ TUBA ∙ Hannes Haider ∙ TIMPANI & PERCUSSION ∙ Ulrike Stadler ∙ Janós Figula ∙ Johanna Gappmaier ∙ HARPS∙ Daniela Karner ∙ Barbara Frühwirt ∙ Ulrike Mattanovich ∙ PIANO/CELESTA ∙ Simon Schuller ∙ Birgit Schweighofer

BAROCK

CONCRT MASTER∙ Maria Kubizek ∙ VIOLINS∙ Marina Bkhiyan ∙ Daniela Hölbling ∙ Yanet Infanzón La O ∙ Manako Ito ∙ Eva Lenger ∙ Simone Mustein ∙ Diana Redik ∙ Toshie Shibata ∙ Katharina Stangl ∙ Georgios Zacharoudis ∙ VIOLAS∙ Lucas Schurig-Breuß ∙ Sofija Krsteska-Klebel ∙ Simona Petrean ∙ VIOLONCELLI ∙ Gunde Hintergräber ∙ Jan Zdansky ∙ CONTRABASSES ∙ Lorena Martín Alarcón ∙ Sebastian Rastl ∙ TRAVERS FLUTES ∙ Heide Wartha ∙ Maria Beatrice Cantelli ∙ OBOES ∙ Georg Fritz ∙ Gabriel Gramesc ∙ BASSOONS ∙ Ivan Calestani ∙ Tonia Solle ∙ HORNS ∙ Matthias Predota ∙ Julie Demarne ∙ TRUMPETS ∙ Stefan Hausleber ∙ Karlheinz Kunter ∙ CEMBALI ∙ Eva Maria Pollerus ∙ Iga Anna Haindl