recreation ∙ GROSSES ORCHESTER GRAZ
recreation – Grosses Orchester Graz
In 2002 musicians of the Graz Symphony Orchestra formed “recreation – GROSSES ORCHESTER GRAZ”. The first subscription concerts were given in the 2002/03 season and were enthusiastically welcomed by the audience. Since then the orchestra has performed at the styriarte Festival in Graz, at the Musikverein in Vienna, at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the Styrian Autumn Festival, the Jazz Summer Graz Festival etc.
In spring 2013, the orchestra’s newly founded original sound formation, recreationBAROCK, under Michael Hofstetter was an extremely successful guest at Versailles Palace and in Lyon, in 2016 as part of the international Gluck Opera Festival in Nuremberg. The eighth subscription cycle of this baroque orchestra is now running in the Graz Minoritensaal (and from 2020 during its renovation in the Stefaniensaal).
The members of the orchestra either studied at the university of music in Graz or teach at one of the music education institutions in that city and all of Styria. With their different nationalities they also create a fusion of many south-eastern European cultures.
The Graz University of Music constantly attracts young talents to training. They often and gladly take the opportunity to demonstrate their skills as guest musicians in the orchestra recreation. With these young artists, the orchestra’s changing nationality panorama extends to China, Japan, Spain or Russia, but also to France, Cuba, Venezuela and New Zealand.
“recreation” has worked with outstanding conductors such as Andrés Orozco-Estrada (principal conductor from 2005 until 2009), and Jordi Savall. From 2012 to 2017 Michael Hofstetter was appointed Principal Conductor of the recreation orchestra for five seasons. As from the season 2019/20 Mei-Ann Chen will act as the “Principal Guest Conductor” of the orchestra for three years. She will design at least two projects per season for and with recreation and she will develop one of her artistic focus areas together with recreation, discovering and presenting the orchestral works of important female composers of the past and the present.
Bankhaus Krentschker has been the orchestra’s main sponsor since 2004/05, for which it received a recognition award from MAECENAS Styria in 2005, 2013 and 2019. In 2015, the bank also received the Maecenas Austria for its longstanding commitment to the orchestra.
concertmasters ∙ Wolfgang Redik ∙ Harald Martin Winkler ∙ violins ∙ Silvia Babka ∙ Fabian Bertoncello ∙ Heidemarie Berliz ∙ Marina Bkhiyan ∙ Benjamín Gatuzz Suarez ∙ Aya Georgieva ∙ Barbara Haslmayr ∙ Daniela Hölbling ∙ Noémi Huszar ∙ Yanet Infanzón La O ∙ Raphael Kasprian ∙ Mirjana Krstic ∙ Albana Laci ∙ Michael Leitner ∙ Angelika Messanegger ∙ Boris Mihaljcic ∙ Simone Mustein ∙ Sonja Novcic ∙ Lorena Padrón Ortíz ∙ Sylvia Pillhofer ∙ Diana Redik ∙ István Reiter ∙ Nicolás Sánchez ∙ Christiane Schwab ∙ Toshie Shibata ∙ Katharina Stangl ∙ Gabriele Vollmer ∙ Volker Zach ∙ Georgios Zacharoudis ∙ violas ∙ Ingeburg Weingerl-Bergbaur ∙ Wolfram Fortin ∙ Attila Gacs ∙ Annamaria Guth ∙ Agnieszka Kapron-Nabl ∙ Delphine Krenn-Viard ∙ Christian Marshall ∙ Simona Petrean ∙ Lucas Schurig-Breuß ∙ Wolfgang Stangl ∙ Ioan Stetencu ∙ violoncellos ∙ Ruth Winkler ∙ Inge Bacher ∙ Boglárka Bakó ∙ Floris Fortin ∙ Gunde Hintergräber ∙ Marie Huber ∙ Andrea Molnar ∙ Judit Pap ∙ Martina Trunk ∙ Jan Zdansky ∙ double basses ∙ Andreas Farnleitner ∙ Christian Berg ∙ Tim Dunin ∙ Venice Jayawardhena-Meditz ∙ Herbert Lang ∙ Raphael Pätzold ∙ Sebastian Rastl ∙ flutes ∙ Heide Wartha ∙ Maria Beatrice Cantelli ∙ Eva Eibinger ∙ Barbara Peyer ∙ Petra Reiter ∙ oboes ∙ Klaus Mörth ∙ Helene Kenyeri ∙ Yu-Syuan Liao ∙ Ewa Lovrenovic ∙ Paul Maier ∙ Andrej Skorobogatko ∙ Lena Maria Straka ∙ Adela Traar ∙ Stanislav Zukhovsky ∙ clarinets ∙ Johann Grasch ∙ Gerhard Grassmugg ∙ Manuela Höfler ∙ Gregor Narnhofer ∙ Hubert Salmhofer ∙ Helmut Wiener ∙ saxophones ∙ Clemens Frühstück ∙ Stephanie Schoiswohl ∙ bassoons ∙ Andor Csonka ∙ Ivan Calestani ∙ Peter Janzsó ∙ Adrienn Kerekes ∙ Tonia Solle ∙ Elvira Weidl ∙ horns ∙ Michael Hofbauer ∙ Tamas Cserhalmi ∙ Radu Petrean ∙ Matthias Predota ∙ Karlheinz Tappler ∙ trumpets ∙ Karlheinz Kunter ∙ Stefan Hausleber ∙ trombones ∙ Wolfgang Tischhart ∙ Christian Godetz ∙ Lukas Hirzberger ∙ Alexander Ladreiter ∙ Reinhard Summerer ∙ tuba ∙ Hannes Haider ∙ timpani ∙ Ulrike Stadler ∙ percussion ∙ Janos Figula ∙ Guido Pauss ∙ Dominik Pavlenic ∙ Simon Steidl ∙ Bernhard Winkler ∙ harps ∙ Ulrike Mattanovich ∙ Barbara Frühwirt ∙ Daniela Karner ∙ piano/celeste ∙ Birgit Schweighofer ∙ Christian Dolcet ∙ Simon Schuller