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Place of Birth: Ljubljana, Ljubljana City Municipality, Slovenia
About Irena Grafenauer
- Irena Grafenauer, (born June 19, 1957 in Ljubljana, Slovenia), is a Slovenian flute player and soloist, a pupil of Boris Campa, Karlheinz Zöller and Aurèle Nicolet. Irena Grafenauer started her musical education at the age of 8.
- After graduating from the Academy of Music in Ljubljana in 1974, she continued her studies with Karlheinz Zöller and Aurèle Nicolet.
- She won First Prize in three international competitions: in Belgrade (1974), Geneva (1978) and Munich (1979).
- From 1977 to 1987 she was principal flautist with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Rafael Kubelik and Sir Colin Davis.
- On October 1987 she was appointed Professor at the Salzburg Mozarteum. She has successfully toured most European countries, the United States, Japan, and Australia as a soloist.
- She has performed regularly at Gidon Kremer’s Lockenhaus Festival since 1981 and toured extensively with ”Kremer & Friends”. Irena Grafenauer formed a duo with the harpist Maria Graf, with whom she has enjoyed a long and harmonious partnership.
- She has also worked regularly with the Berlin Philharmonic Duo Jörg Baumann and Klaus Stoll, pianists Oleg Maisenberg, Robert Levin, and Helmut Deutsch, Guitar-player Eliot Fisk, and the Cherubini String Quartet. Irena Grafenauer records exclusively for the Philips label.
- She has been contracted to record concertos and quartets by Mozart with members of the Academy of St.
- Martin-in-the-Fields and the French album with music by Debussy, Ravel, Ibert and Roussel. She currently teaches in Mozarteum, Salzburg.
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