Wiener Musikakademie

Prof. Ham Timea

VIOLIN

Tímea studied violin at Franz Liszt University of Music in Györ and graduated as a violin teacher and chamber musician. She continued her studies at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg in the class of Prof. Klara Flieder and received her master’s degree in violin performance.
Later, she majored in baroque violin with Michi Gaigg at Anton Bruckner Universität Linz and graduated with highest distinction in baroque violin and historical performance.
She completed a postgraduate course in violin performance with Lavard Skou Larsen at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg and another postgraduate course in baroque and historical performance in Midori Seiler’s class at the Universität Mozarteum.
Tímea had the privilege to complete her studies at mastercourses led by Dénes Zsigmondy, Midori Goto, Helfried Fister, Hiro Kurosaki, “Freiburg Baroque Orchestra”- Daniela Helm and Rachel Podger.
She gained a wide range of orchestra experience as a soloist and member of the chamber orchestra “Cis” in Salzburg, as the concertmaster of the “Collegium Musikum Salzburg”, as section-leader at “Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra Pécs” and as a member of the “Salzburg Chamber Soloist” chamber orchestra, performing on tournées around Europe, in South America and Asia.
She had the opportunity to play several ORF live recordings and play concerts with the “Acrobat” contemporary quintet in Europe and South Africa.
Since 2008 Tímea has been a member of the “Vienna Chamber Orchestra”, since 2012 the baroque ensemble “Bach Consort” and the baroque “Ensemble 1756”.
Tímea regularly performs with the baroque ensemble “Les Passion de L’Ame” in Bern and abroad, as well as with the French baroque ensemble “Les Concert Lorrain”.
She played as a guest violinist in “Concentus Musicus” with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, with “L’Orfeo” baroque ensemble and she was invited to play with “Freiburg Baroque Orchestra”.

Prof. Chung Minae

VIOLIN

Mag.art. Minae Chung was born in 1979 in Seoul, South Korea.
At the age of 10 she started playing the violin in the class of Namyun Kim.
She had studied with Rainer Küchl and received her diploma at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in 2008. After that, she continued to study at the Vienna Conservatory for music education (IGP) with Dorice Köstenberger and completed her diploma study in 2010. During her studies, she participated in several international masterclasses with Igor Ozim, Alexander Arenkow, Edward Zinkowski, Isidora Romanoff-Schwarzberg and Jan Pospichal. She appeared as a soloist with various orchestras, such as the Czechoslovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Conservatory Chamber Orchestra and Concentus 21 Wien. In addition, she has been a prizewinner in the Music Journal Competition in Seoul (3rd), the International Music Competition "Premio Citta di Padova" (1st) and the edition of "VIRTUOSITE' PRIZE" (4th) in Italy.
Since 2013 Minae Chung has given her service and contributed in “Concentus 21 Wien” as a concertmaster, and since 2014 at the Vienna Conservatory and the Polyhymnia Music School as a lecturer for violin.

Prof. Gernac-Karamovic M.

VOICE Mirela BW

Mirela Gernac-Karamovic, born in Bijeljina (Bosnia & Herzegovina), began her musical education right there, where her passion for music unfolded in early years. Ihr musikalisches Schaffen startete bereits während ihrer schulischen Ausbildung und so absolvierte sie das Musikgymnasium in Bijeljina she graduated with distinction from a secondary school with a particular emphasis on music, majoring in music pedagogy and Solo singing.

Already in 2002 she had her first solo concerts. She participated in many national and international competitions and won many prizes. She began her studies at the Faculty of Music at the University of Belgrade (Serbia) with the voice performance major (singing, song, oratorio and opera) as the youngest student and completed in 2009 in the class of Professor Aneta Ilic. She also obtained her Master's degree in Solo voice at the Faculty of Music at the University of Belgrade (Serbia).

She had regular concerts as a soloist, as a member of various chamber music ensembles and as a soloist in various choirs in Russia, Austria, Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Hungary, Montenegro, Germany and Croatia. In 2015, she moved to Vienna and continued her singing career as well as her pedagogical career as a music teacher in the solo singing and piano department.

Thanks to the knowledge and experience she has received in the classes of outstanding professors from the best music institutes, her students have always been able to achieve top performances at many national and international competitions. She is happy to meet people who share the same enthusiasm for music and who she can help with developing.

Prof. Shin-Kunz Soyoung

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PIANO

Biography, under construction.

Prof. Samhaber-Eck. Petra

Samhaber-Eckhardt croped BAROQUE VIOLIN

Born in Linz, Austria; Petra Samhaber-Eckhardt began to study violin with Gunar Letzbor. After she has finished school, she started her studies on modern violin at the Mozarteum Salzburg (concert diploma and teaching diploma); during this period, she was already very interested in baroque violin and historical performance practice, and took her first studies with Hiro Kurosaki and Michi Gaigg. After her successful diplomas at Salzburg she moved to London for studying baroque violin at the `Royal College of Music´ with Andrew Manze and Ingrid Seifert. She finished her postgraduate study with distinction. While studying she has won several prizes at competitions in England (UK early music, final round BBC music award). In 2011 she finished her Master with distinction at the Bruckner Privatuniversität Linz in the class of Michi Gaigg.

She also studied with Enrico Onofri at the `Conservatorio Bellini´ in Palermo, and became a musical partner of him.

She is the leader of the successful Austrian Ensemble CASTOR, which got an excellent reputation the last years and has been invited to many famous festivals (Carinthischer Sommer, Attergauer Kultursommer, Festival St. Gallen etc.). She is also member of the `L´Orfeo Barockorchester´. She is working throughout Europe and South America also as concertmaster (Michi Gaigg, Enrico Onofri, Ton Koopman) and was invited for leading the orchestra at the Innsbrucker Festwochen in 2016. She will also join the Eszterhazy Hofkapelle Fertöd next year. Chamber music projects with Emma Murphy and Bridget Cunningham will take her to France and England.

In 2013 her first book ´Musical-rhetorical figures in the sonatas BWV 1014-1019 by J.S. Bach ´ was published.