Faculty

Mag.a art.

Bernadette Bartos

Senior Lecturer / Vocal Coach and AccompanistDepartment of Vocal Studies

Since 2012, Bernadette Bartos has worked as a Lied accompanist at Mozarteum University Salzburg in the studios of Helmut Deutsch, Pauliina Tukiainen, and Wolfgang Holzmair. Regular concert appearances in Austria and abroad have brought her together with artists including Rainer Trost, Paul Armin Edelmann, Rafael Fingerlos, and Matthias Winckler.

Bernadette Bartos studied piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Imola Joó, Heinz Medjimorec, and Stephan Möller. She continued her studies in Lied accompaniment at the Royal College of Music in London with Roger Vignoles and Simon Lepper, and completed her master’s degree at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna. An important part of her artistic development came through masterclasses with Klaus Hellwig, Christopher Elton, Noël Flores, Joaquín Soriano, Helmut Deutsch, Roger Vignoles, Julius Drake, and Graham Johnson.

In 1999, she made her debut in the Großer Saal of the Wiener Musikverein and later appeared as both soloist and accompanist in the Schubertsaal and Mozartsaal of the Wiener Konzerthaus. Her concert activities as a soloist, chamber musician, and Lied accompanist have taken her to France, Uruguay, Slovenia, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Slovakia, and the Netherlands. In 2010, she was included in Graham Johnson’s Young Songmakers’ Almanac. She has performed at the Oxford Lieder Festival, Regent Hall, St. Barnabas Ealing, and St. James’s Piccadilly, among other venues. In 2012, she won the Beethoven Chamber Music Competition. She has released CDs together with Wolfgang Holzmair and Gerald Schubert.