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Andrea Guttmann-Lunenburg
Andrea Guttmann-Lunenburg has held a position at the Mozarteum University since 2010, where she teaches recorder didactics, ensemble playing and principal study; she also teaches at the Mozarteum Pre-College. She has also has taught recorder at the annual "International Seminar for Early Music" in Zell an der Pram since 2016, and is in demand as a juror at the Austrian youth music competition Prima la Musica at state and national level. She Her membership of the recorder quartet QNG led to her being active in pedagogy and outreach, giving workshops for recorder players and composers, leading residencies and lecture-recitals, and providing professional development courses and ensemble coaching.
Andrea Guttmann-Lunenburg trained at the Mozarteum University with Carin van Heerden and Felicitas Keldorfer-Speer, at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Walter van Hauwe, at the Civica Scuola di Musica in Milan, and at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya in Barcelona with Pedro Memelsdorff (postgraduate studies). She received further artistic inspiration in masterclasses with Han Tol, Kees Boeke, Gerd Lünenburger and Robert Ehrlich. She is a recipient of the Lilly Lehmann Medal of the International Mozarteum Foundation.
From 1999 to 2014 she performed intensively with the recorder quartet QNG – Quartet New Generation – in Europe, the USA, South America and Asia, winning international prizes at the Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York, the Penderecki Competition for Contemporary Music in Kraków, the Gaudeamus Competition for Contemporary Music in Rotterdam, the Göttingen Competition for Early Music, the Chamber Music Competition in Illzach (France) and the German Music Competition in Bonn. The ensemble was selected twice for the “Federal Selection of Young Artists” and was also a prize-winner in 2006. She is a sought-after chamber music partner. She has recorded CDs with the ensembles A Imagem Da Melancolia (Challenge Classics) and Rosarum Flores (2019, for the label of the Landesmuseum Tirol). She also performs regularly with the ensembles Musica Antiqua Salzburg and Marini Consort.
From 2003 to 2007 she taught at music schools in the Netherlands and Germany, before moving to the Upper Austrian State Music School, where she has taught since 2007. Since 2018 she has been the artistic director of Blockflute Formation, a recorder ensemble made up of teachers from the Upper Austrian State Music School.