Heidelore Wallisch-Schauer
MA
Heidi Wallisch-Schauer teaches at Mozarteum University Salzburg, the Mozarteum Innsbruck and the Tyrolean State Conservatory. She is currently one of the leading performers on the hammered dulcimer. Her passion for the instrument inspires her to explore past, present and original music across genre boundaries.
Heidi Wallisch-Schauer studied dulcimer, salterio, early music and historical performance practice at Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz with Karl-Heinz Schickhaus and August Humer. She has performed with a wide range of ensembles and musicians, including Franui, the roma barocca ensemble, the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, musica fiorita, the Tennkoglmusi, Ensemble Vita & Anima, the Austrian Ensemble for New Music, NeoBarock, Salzburger Hofmusik and Concentus Musicus Wien. She also performs with KultUrig, which she founded with Alexander Maurer, and lila house, with jazz guitarist Thomas Wallisch-Schauer. Her concert engagements have taken her to venues including the Brucknerhaus in Linz, the Salzburg Festival's Festspielhaus, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Munich Philharmonic and the Vienna State Opera.