Emma Black, Ilia Korol, Peter Trefflinger, Euène Michelangeli
Biography Emma Black, Ilia Korol, Peter Trefflinger, Euène Michelangeli
Emma Black
Australian born Emma Black is the principal oboist with the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble (Thomas Hengelbrock) and principal and soloist with the Wiener Akademie (Vienna) and Le Concert de la Loge (Paris) . With all of these orchestras she has performed in all the major European festivals and can be heard in numerous cd and radio recordings.
Emma Black also plays and records regularly with Musica Aeterna (Teodor Currentzis), the Nederlands Bach Vereinigung ,the Orchestra of the Antipodes, Pinchgut Opera, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Le Cercle de l’Harmonie , the Wiener Kammerorchester, Radio Symphony Orchestra of Vienna, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ensemble Prisma, Bach Consort Wien, Les Talens Lyriques, The Australian Romantic and Classical Orchestra (ARCO).
As a soloist, she performs regularly with the Wiener Akademie (most recently performing Mozart and Haydn oboe concertos in the Vienna Musikverein ), Emma has also performed often with the Kammerakademie Potsdam, Balthasar Neumann Ensemble, ARCO and the Bach Consort Wien.
Over the past 15 years Emma Black has pursued a strong interest in early music and study of the historical oboe. This interest had its genesis following her move to Zurich in 1993 where she began playing with the Orchester der Opernhaus Zurich with conductors such as Nicholas Harnoncourt, Nello Santi and Franz Weiser-Möst. It was here she had her first experiences with historical instruments in the opera house orchestra La Scintilla. This led to a decision to study historical oboe and performance practice at the Scuola Cantorum, Basel. She subsequently became an active member of the Zurich Bläser Quintett recording several CDs with this group and making regular radio recordings and performances in leading European festivals.
Between the years 2005-2009, Emma was the principal oboist of the Kammerakademie Potsdam, at the time under the artistic direction of Sergio Azzolini and then Andrea Marcon.
Emma Black’s musical studies commenced at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne before relocating to Europe where she studied with Heinz Holliger the Musik Hochschule Freiburg and Maurice Bourgue at the Conservatoire de Geneve.
Between the years 2014-2019 she held the position of professor for oboe at the Kunstuniversität Graz.
Ilia Korol
Born in Kiev, Ilia Korol (Violin) studied violin at the Music Academy Moscow with Abraham Stern and Marina Iashvili. Since 1997 he lives in Austria, where he was rewarded 2001 with the Austrian citizenship due to his musical merits. He appeared with Musica Antiqua Cologne, and performs as concertmaster of Joshua Rifkin?s Bach Ensembles, with the Spanish Barock orchesters RCOC, with the Vienna Academy of Music and furthermore, he is member of the Ensembles Ars Antiqua Austria and the Clemencic Consorts. He recorded several CDs and performed as a member in reknown ensembles at the most important festivals in Europe, Asia and the United States. In 2003 Ilia Korol founded together with Julia Moretti the chamber orchestra moderntimes, that was one of the opening orchestras of the Vienna Festival in 2004, that gave a guest performance at the Ruhr Triennale in 2005, and that was invited to the Salzburg Festival in 2006.
Peter Trefflinger
was born in Steyr, Upper Austria, and studied violoncello with Jannis Chronopoulos at the University of Music in Graz, baroque cello with Jörg Zwicker at the Vienna Conservatory and viola da gamba with Lorenz Duftschmid. Various master classes brought the sought-after baroque cellist into contact with musical personalities such as Philippe Muller, Max Engel, Jaap ter Linden and Kurt Neuhauser. Engagements in various orchestras on original instruments, including the Vienna Academy, the Haydn Academy, the Concilium Musicum Vienna and the L'Orfeo Baroque Orchestra Linz have taken him to many countries in Europe and North and South America as well as to Japan. Another focus of his work is chamber music. He works with ensembles such as Ars Antiqua Austria and Ensemble Castor. Numerous CD recordings with Alpha, CPO and ORF, among others, document his skills.
Eugène Michelangeli
was born in France. He began his study of the harpsichord as a child at the music school of Dieppe, where he was awarded the Médaille d’or in 1995. Thereafter he continued his training at the Conservatoire National de Région de Boulogne-Billancourt, where he earned the first prize for harpsichord and basso continuo in 1998. In 2002, Eugène Michelangeli concluded his studies with Gordon Murray at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna with the degree of Magister Artium.
Alongside teaching assignments at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, as well as the Art University in Graz , Michelangeli also pursues an intense domestic and international concert career. He has appeared as a chamber musician at festivals including the Salzburg Festival, the Vienna Festival, the Styriarte in Graz and the Italia Mia Festival in Vienna, as well as in a soloist capacity at the Bach Week in Thüringen.
As a member of the European Union Baroque Orchestra during its 2000 and 2003 seasons, he played as a soloist and a continuo player under the direction of Paul Goodwin, Roy Goodman and Lars Ulrik Mortensen in places such as Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Stuttgart (Liederhalle), London, Brussels, Hannover and Riga. He has appeared as a guest performer in numerous opera productions (including at the Festival d’Ambronay, the Bonn Opera, the Teatro Real Madrid, the Vienna Festival and the International Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt).
