art church studio, pipe-organ special guest Erniest Hoetzl

special Guest ERNEST HOETZL visits the ARTchurch studio (more info. visit artchurch.org) for the first time since 1989 the Artchurch pipe-organ is professionally played. this is just what happens here, in the middle of an Art teacher's in-service workshop in walks a world class conductor for a private concert. What a wonderful life. Please enjoy this gift. Thank you. Erenst is (special guest conductor for the Hot Springs Music Festival) is often referred to as "the" Austrian Ambassador of Music. Fluent in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian, Latin and Greek, Dr. Hoetzl regularly works with more than thirty orchestras all over the world including the Bombay Chamber Orchestra (as Principal Guest Conductor), Philippine Philharmonic, Delhi Symphony, Nairobi Orchestra, Manila Symphony, Monterrey Symphony (Mexico), Penang Festival Orchestra, Orquestra Classica di Madeira, Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional del Ecuador, Izmir Symphony, Adana State Symphony and the Orchestra de l´Institut Musical Alger. As guest conductor, he has been well received by such prestigious orchestras as the Vienna Symphony, Graz Symphony, Festival della Valle d´Itria Martina Franca; the Armenian Philharmonic, Thessaloniki State Symphony, Megaron Musikis Thessaloniki, the Orchestra of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the Ukraine National Philharmonic, Toronto Philharmonic, Austin Symphony, Orquestra Metropolitana Lisboa. Singapore Symphony, Brno Philharmonic, Budapest Symphony MAV in Budapest and the North Czech Philharmonic--to name a few. Dr. Ernest Hoetzl is the only conductor to have performed in both North and South Korea; he is the first western musician to perform in post-revolutionary Iran (Teheran Chamber Orchestra) and the first Austrian artist to perform in Nigeria's new capital, Abouja. Ernest Hoetzl received a Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned one of his three Master's Degrees (in Classical Languages, Music Education and Opera Conducting). He also holds a Doctorate in Musicology from the University of Graz, where he is presently Professor of Music History and Conducting. A published author, Dr. Hoetzl is also Artistic Director of the Musikverein Kärnten and the International Wörthersee Music Scholarship Competition. Upcoming engagements include performances at the Festival della Emilia Romagna, with the Israel Symphony and the New England Symphony at Carnegie Hall. Maestro Hoetzl has also recorded and toured extensively as an accomplished organist. His wife, Marianne Hoetzl, is an artist and teacher near Klagenfurt--an exhibition of her paintings will be featured during the entire month of June at Taylor's Contemporanea Fine Arts in Hot Springs.

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[map993able]

Dear friend Ernest: a great hug from Brazil! Adilson Pinto, teraphist!

[arjobeeraniruddha]

dear ernst..its really nice to see you once again...i sang as a tenor in the "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi", "Tritch-Tratch" and other numbers that you conducted in Bombay, 2007 at the National Centre for the Performing Arts....nice to see you again really..i remember we briefly talked about music!

[friedrichsacher]

look at the last second....the keys stuck in there while he's lifting up his hands ^^

That organ is really out of tune ...

[posaune16]

She needs a lot of work, but it's apparent from what we've heard that this wee Moller's got a beautiful voice, just waiting to burst forth in full glory!