Stefan Vladar

Born in Vienna Stefan Vladar is one of Austria’s most remarkable musical personalities. He performs regularly as a conductor and a pianist in music centres in Europe, America and Asia. In the season 2015/16, the Vienna Concert House is celebrating his 50th birthday with a series of 13 concerts in which he will show his artistic scope - also as an accompanist and as a chamber musician.

Stefan Vladar was appointed Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra in 2008. In this season Stefan Vladar will also conduct the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, the Portland Symphony Orchestra, the Bankok Symphony Orchestra, the Cairo Symphony Orchestra and the Tschaikowsky Symphony Orchestra Moscow. As a pianist he will perform e.g. with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Prague and the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz and play solo recitals in Vienna, Zagreb, Munich and Budapest amongst others.

In autumn 2015 the Austrian Label CAPRICCIO is starting a close partnership with Stefan Vladar and will first release a CD with piano solo compositions by Maurice Ravel. In 2016 a 4CD-Box with the complete recording of Beethoven´s solo concertos - 5 piano concertos, triple concerto, violin concerto, 2 violin romances – will follow, Stefan Vladar performing as a pianist and conducting his Vienna Chamber Orchestra. In addition, a recording of Schubert’s three major song cycles is being prepared with Bo Skovhus.

Stefan Vladar was a student of Hans Petermandl at the University of Music and Performing Arts. In 1985 he won the 1st prize of the prestigious International Beethoven Piano Competition in Vienna. Since then, he has been performing under the baton of conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Vladimir Fedosejev, Christopher Hogwood, Louis Langrée, Sir Neville Marriner, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Simon Rattle and Christian Thielemann in appearances with numerous orchestras such as Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Bayerische Staatsorchester, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokio, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Tonhalle-Orchestra Zurich.

As a conductor he has worked with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, Residence Orchestra Den Haag, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Tschaikowsky Symphony Orchestra Moscow, Stuttgart Philharmonic, RSO Budapest, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra as well as the chamber orchestras of Basel, Cologne, Prague and Zurich among others. He has performed together with soloists such as Tzimon Barto, Janine Jansen, Isabelle van Keulen, Viktoria Mullova, Julian Rachlin, Heinrich Schiff and with singers such as Ian Bostridge, Johan Botha, Jonas Kaufmann, Angelika Kirchschlager, Thomas Quasthoff, Ramon Vargas and Pretty Yende. Stefan has a close long term musical cooperation with the baritone Bo Skovhus.

Stefan Vladar has been guest artist of the Salzburg Festival, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Musikfest Bremen, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele, Rheingau Music Festival, Piano Festival Ruhr, Schwetzing SWR Festival and the festivals of Aix-en-Provence, Bergen, Bogotá, Edinburgh, Gstaad, Hongkong, Osaka as well as the Opéra Bastille Paris and the Musikverein Vienna. He was "Artist in residence" of the Bodenseefestival and the Duisburg Philharmonic. Since almost 20 years he has been Artistic Director of the „Neuberger Kulturtage“.

Vladar’s discography includes more than 30 releases for labels such as Harmonia Mundi and Sony Classical documenting his work as a pianist and as a conductor with music amongst others by Haydn, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Prokofiev and Scriabin.

舒德芬 • 弗拉達爾

奧地利鋼琴家舒德芬•弗拉達爾自1985年成為維也納貝多芬國際鋼 琴大賽歷來最年輕的優勝者後，憑着卓越才藝，成就輝煌事業，在同輩音樂家中備受矚目。

維也納出生，於維也納音樂大學習樂，師從克萊瑪-派辛海默和彼得曼德爾。

弗拉達爾的音樂足跡遍佈世界各地的各大音樂廳，曾在多位著名指揮家執棒下演奏，包括阿巴多、小澤征爾、提勒曼、霍格伍德、馬連拿、曼奴軒爵士、霍斯特．史坦、普拉頌和哈汀；他也常與皇家音樂廳管弦樂團、鹿特丹愛樂樂團、芝加哥交響樂團、聖馬田樂團、薩爾茨堡室樂團、 蘇黎世音樂廳樂團、東京NHK管弦樂團及歐洲室樂團等合作表演。

獲邀參加世界各大音樂節，最近他就參與了薩爾茨堡、石勒斯維格-荷爾斯坦、萊茵高、 路維斯堡的音樂節，以及舒伯特音樂 節；他並經常與維也納-柏林樂團和維也納藝術家弦樂四重奏合作。 與著名男中音鮑·史科弗合作，錄製舒伯特三大歌劇作品。

弗拉達爾現任維也納施堤利亞省紐伯格文化節和奧地利音樂節的藝術總監，2002至2005年間更擔任奧地利格拉茲市新成立的樂團的首席指揮。自2008年起任維也納室樂交響樂團音樂總監和主指揮。這個樂季，他將和多個樂團演奏及擔任指揮，包括莫斯科交響樂團、坡蘭交響樂團､曼谷交響樂團､卡里奧交響樂團和柴可夫斯基交響樂團。身為鋼琴演奏家，與布拉格之春交響樂團及德國西南愛樂樂團合作，於維也納､慕尼黑和布達佩斯等地表演。

2015年秋季，澳洲唱片品牌Carriccio與弗拉達爾開展緊密合作，發行其首張拉威爾鋼琴獨奏專輯。2016年，計劃發行貝多芬協奏曲4CD專輯-包括鋼琴協奏曲、三重奏、小提琴協奏曲和小提琴羅曼曲。同時，

弗拉達爾現為維也納音樂暨表演藝術大學鋼琴教授，身為鋼琴演奏家和指揮家，演奏海頓、舒伯特、舒曼、蕭邦､普羅歌菲夫和斯克里亞賓作品獲Harmonia Mundi和索尼唱片公司曾錄製發行其專輯超過30張。