Univ.-Prof. Bruno WEINMEISTER

Violoncello (ME, IME, IGP, MTH, MBP, KF)
Instrumental Didactics for Violoncello 01–04
Teaching Practice with Beginners for Violoncello 01, 02
Instrumental Teaching Practice for Violoncello 02

Contact: weinmeister@mdw.ac.at
 

Bruno Weinmeister, who is widely known as the solo cellist of the opera houses in Dresden and Zurich, has been a cello professor at the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna since 2017.

Weinmeister studied cello in Basel and Salzburg with Heinrich Schiff as well as in Berlin with Wolfgang Boettcher. His curiosity about and fascination with music has also led to encounters with the great musical personalities Heinz Holliger, Friedrich Cerha, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and Friedrich Gulda.

Following studies in conducting with Eiji Oue in Hannover, Weinmeister engaged in intense collaboration with Claudio Abbado as the latter’s assistant in Lucerne and Berlin. Furthermore, a position as musical assistant at the Bayreuth Festival led to conducting engagements with the orchestras of Lausanne, Basel, and St. Gallen, as well as with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, at the Vienna Volksoper, and with the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria.

Weinmeister has played as a guest in the solo cello position with international ensembles including the orchestras of the Bavarian State Opera, the Tonhalle in Zurich, and the Stuttgart Opera as well as the radio orchestras of Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, and Freiburg. He is also in high demand as a chamber musician: Heinz Holliger, Benjamin Schmid, Emanuel Pahud, Albrecht Mayer, Renaud Capuçon, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Leif Ove Andsnes, Alexander Lonquich, Jörg Widmann, and Jan Gottlieb Jiracek von Arnim number among his chamber music partners.

Bruno Weinmeister’s activities as a soloist have included appearances with the radio orchestras of Vienna, Berlin, Hamburg, and Stuttgart, with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, with the orchestras of Lyon, Turin, Bologna, and Glasgow, with the Mozarteum Orchestra and Bruckner Orchestra, and with the symphony orchestras of Basel and Bern under conductors including Francesco Angelico, Michael Gielen, Heinz Holliger, Heinrich Schiff, Susanna Mälkki, Sebastian Weigle, Theodor Guschelbauer, Ari Rasilainen, Christian Zacharias, Hans Graf, Leopold Hager, Günther Neuhold, Heribert Beisel, Karl-Heinz Stephens, and Yuri Simonov.