CURRICULUM VITAE SIGRID TRUMMER

Sigrid Trummer was born in Graz/Austria. She studied piano at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts Graz and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Prof. Klara Harrer-Baranyi. Her concertactivities as a solist, chamber musician and accompanist have taken her to many european countries as well as to Japan and the USA. Extensive occupation with contemporary music (first performances of a number of works some specially dedicated to her). Participation in international festivals (among others: Bert Brecht-Festival/Augsburg/Germany, Internationales Gitarrefestival Lambach/Austria, International Festival Izmir/Turkey, Aspekte/Salzburg, WIENMOZART 2006). Radio- and TV-recordings (i.e. concertpieces of Astor Piazzolla, pianoworks of Austrian female composers, Mozart’s female contemporaries as composers). She lives and works in Vienna.

1993-2000
Program with chansons: "Der Herr ist mir fremd" with the actress Claudia Buser.

1994-1999
Cooperation with Mario Nardelli jr., guitar, and Edda Breit, cello (Wiener Kammerorchester).

09/1999
Publication of her debut-CD with piano concerts of female composers (Dora Pejacevic and Germaine Tailleferre), recorded with the Nürnberger Symphonikern under the conductor Manfred Müssauer, label: Re Nova Classics.

2000-2001
Member of the Wie(d)ner Klavierquartett with Martin Klimek, violin (Wiener Philharmoniker); Martin Fuchs, viola (Niederösterreichische Tonkünstler) and Elisabeth Taschner, cello (Vereinigte Bühnen Wien).

06/2000
Publication of the CD "Sigrid Trummer plays contemporary Austrian piano music", label: Extraplatte.

04/2004
Publication of a CD with piano concerts specially dedicated to Sigrid Trummer of Michael Amann and Wolfgang Liebhart, recorded with the Ensemble Sofia under the conductor Dian Tchobanov, label: Extraplatte.

Since 2004
Member of the tangoensemble > Tangazo with Michaela Wild, violin; Kurt Gold-Szklarski, accordion, und Lazlo Magyar, contrabass.

10/2005
Publication of the CD "Fin de Siècle - Klaviermusik österreichischer Komponistinnen".

11/2005
Publication of the CD "Ein unerschöpflicher Reichthum - Komponistinnen zur Zeit Mozarts".

Since 2005
Cooperation with Annelie Gahl, violin (Concentus Musicus, Camerata Salzburg).

2005
On tour in Germany, Turkey and the USA.

Since 2006
Cooperation with Reza Najfar, flutist, composer.

2006/2007
On tour in Romania, Italy and Hungary.

2008
Concerts in Hungary, Bulgaria and USA.
With conductor Dian Tchobanov and Bulgaria Nationalphilharmonie she performs the piano concerto in g-minor by Dora Pejacevic.