Karla Haltenwanger Klavier

Karla Haltenwanger was born into a music-loving Bucharest family in 1977. From an early age, she thrilled audiences with her interpretation of works, especially those of the Viennese Classical period and 20th century composers – for example, she recorded Bela Bartok´s Mikrokosmos for Romanian television at the age of seven, gave her first concert with orchestra at the age of eleven under the legendary conductor Ion Baciu and made her debut at the Bucharest Athenaeum in the same year. She began her training at the Bucharest Music Lyceum “George Enescu” with Prof. Camelia Pavlenco and continued it with Bozena Steinerova in Bonn after the family moved to Germany in 1990. In 1992 she was accepted into the gifted class of Prof. Kämmerling in Hanover and won several first prizes in competitions for young people as a soloist and chamber music partner. As first prize winner of the national competition “Jugend musiziert”, she was selected by the German Music Council to perform Theresienstadt composers in the Czech Republic, Poland, Israel and Switzerland.

She studied piano and chamber music in Hanover.

She completed her studies as a piano teacher and concert pianist with Prof. Karl-Heinz Kämmerling in Hanover and with Homero Francesch in Zurich. She received important artistic impulses in master classes with Ferenc Rados, Eberhardt Fels, Vassilia Efstathiadou and Markus Becker.

As a soloist, she has performed with orchestras such as the Philharmonic Orchestra Ploiesti, the Westphalian Symphony Orchestra, the Academic Orchestra Passau, the Chamber Orchestra arcata Stuttgart and the Symphony Orchestra Bacau. Karla Haltenwanger is active throughout Europe as a soloist, chamber musician and song accompanist. Concert tours have also taken her to Israel, Turkey and China. Her performances at the MIDEM in Cannes, at the Slovenian Radio in Ljubliana, at the EXPO in Hanover and at the “European Weeks” festival were very well received by the public and the press.

Karla Haltenwanger is a prize-winner of the International Competition Caltanissetta 2003 and the International Chamber Music Festival in Kuhmo 2004.