J. Beisteiner as a singer, accompanying herself on the guitar (2019)Johanna Beisteiner (left) receiving the Premio Teatro della Concordia 2016 from Edoardo Brenci (President of the Società del Teatro della Concordia, right).Johanna Beisteiner live with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, 2009The Austrian classical guitarist Johanna Beisteiner (middle) in the workshop of Spanish luthiers Paulino Bernabe Senior (right) and Junior (left). Madrid (Spain), October 2000
Johanna Beisteiner received her first guitar lessons at the age of nine at the Josef Matthias Hauer music school in her hometown Wiener Neustadt. In 1992, when
only sixteen years of age, she became a student at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, from where she graduated as a concert guitarist as well as a Doctor of philosophy with a PhD Thesis on Art music in figure skating, synchronized swimming and rhythmic gymnastics.[3]
As part of her solo concerts in recent times, Johanna Beisteiner interprets also art songs (e. g. by Schubert or Mozart) and accompanies herself with specially developed playing techniques.[13][14]
In October 2022 she went on tour in the USA with performances in New York City, Washington DC and Durham (North Carolina).[15][16][17][18] During this concert tour, she presented her one-woman show Farkas in America ― a combination of recitation, music and flamenco dance ― at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York and at the PSI Theatre of Durham Arts Council. This one-woman show was based on the book of poems Farkas entdeckt Amerika (en: Farkas discovers America) by the Jewish-Austrian comedian Karl Farkas , who ironically described in this work his escape from the Nazi regime via France and Spain to the USA and his life there from 1938-42. Beisteiner also gave a solo concert at the Church of the Epiphany (Washington, D.C.) with songs by Schubert and Mozart and works for solo guitar by Pace and Albéniz.
As part of a cycle by the Maison Heinrich Heine in Paris in honor of Ingeborg Bachmann, Beisteiner opened the series of events with the musical-literary soloprogram Ingeborg Bachmann & Paul Celan on the 50th anniversary of Bachmann's death on October 17, 2023.[19]
In November 2023, she toured Canada and the United States with performances at the Centrepointe Theatre in Ottawa,[20]Ottawa Public Library[21] as well as PSI Theatre in Durham.[22] The artist presented her one-woman show Austrian Rarities with works by Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert as well as anecdotes from Ingeborg Bachmann's connections to North America.[23][24][25] She also moderated the Book Club of the European Union on the English translation of a book by Ludwig Drahosch, Simonetta's Shadow: A Tale about the Unteachability of the Beautiful (Edition Margarete Tischler, 2022).[26]
2009: Concert for guitar and orchestra. Sample of first movement performed live in 2009 by Johanna Beisteiner and the Budapest Symphony Orchestra conducted by Béla Drahos (Video published in 2010 by Gramy Records).
2009: The Milonguero and the Muse (Tango), second version for flute, guitar and string orchestra. Sample of this tango performed live in 2009 by Béla Drahos, Johanna Beisteiner and the Budapest Symphony Orchestra (Video published in 2010 by Gramy Records)
2010: Waltz for guitar solo
2013: Nutcracker Variations for guitar and string orchestra
Works by Reuben Pace
2017: Concertino for guitar, harpsichord and orchestra
Art music in figure skating, synchronized swimming and rhythmic gymnastics / Kunstmusik in Eiskunstlauf, Synchronschwimmen und rhythmischer Gymnastik. PhD thesis by Johanna Beisteiner, Vienna 2005, (German). The PhD thesis contains, inter alia, an analysis of the film Carmen on Ice (Chapter II/2, pages 105-162) as well as extensive descriptions of several competitive and show programs to Carmen and Swan lake. Article about the PhD thesis of Johanna Beisteiner in the catalogue of the Austrian Library Network. 2005. (German and English)
^"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 11 October 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)Johanna Beisteiner: Farkas in America in the calendar of events on the website of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York. October 2022.
