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Ilse Strauß-Weisz
Ilse Strauß-Weisz teaches recorder and recorder didactics at the Innsbruck campus of Mozarteum University, where she also supervises students in recorder teaching practice. As a performer and educator, she is particularly committed to early music and its communication to new audiences.
As co-initiator of ConTakt, a platform for early music in Tyrol, she has spent the past eight years exploring different aspects of performance practice and developing new concert formats. She founded the Ensemble Rosarum Flores, whose concert programmes take an interdisciplinary approach. She particularly enjoys the intellectual and practical challenges involved in working with historical instruments.
She is also involved in outreach projects in cooperation with the Tyrolean Regional Museums, the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, the youth baroque orchestra Streicherey and the Innsbrucker Abendmusik concert series.
Alongside her work at Mozarteum University, she heads the recorder department at the Innsbruck Municipal Music School, where she is closely involved with current issues in recorder teaching.