Agata Meissner | © Christian Schneider
Faculty

Agata Katarzyna Meissner

Senior LecturerDepartment Early Music

Agata Meissner has worked as a répétiteur at the Mozarteum University Salzburg since 2020, where she is also responsible for the maintenance of historical keyboard instruments (harpsichord tuning and instrument care). Since 2020, she has been pursuing her doctoral thesis on keyboard music in the orbit of the Viennese court in the 17th century, which she is writing at the Mozarteum University under the supervision of Thomas Hochradner.

Agata Meissner performs as a soloist and chamber musician. She has participated in numerous productions and recordings, including a concert recording at the festival “Dramma per Musica” in Warsaw (solo cantatas by G. F. Handel and A. Scarlatti, 2022), the oratorio I pellegrini dal Sepolcro di nostro Signore by Johann Adolf Hasse (radio broadcast within the EBU, 2018), the St John Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach (2014), and L’incoronazione di Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi (2014).

She is interested not only in the music of the Baroque period, but also in its broader cultural context. She has participated several times in the “Cracovia Danza” Festival in Kraków, where she studied various styles of historical dance. In 2019, she received an award for her project at the Mozarteum Research Competition.

Agata Meissner is a graduate of the Mozarteum University Salzburg, where she studied harpsichord with Florian Birsak and performance practice with Reinhard Goebel. She also studied at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music and at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Warsaw.