Susanne Scholz
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usanne Scholz è una musicista austriaca specializzata nell'esecuzione con violini storici, con particolare attenzione al repertorio del periodo rinascimentale, barocco e classico, e nella direzione di ensemble, dal consort rinascimentale all'ensemble operistico.
Oltre agli studi a Graz, Vienna (violino concertistico) e L'Aia (violino barocco), Susanne Scholz ha suonato in orchestre e con ensemble di tutta Europa e ha acquisito esperienza musicale in esecuzioni in tutto il mondo. Prima di concentrarsi sulla pianificazione, la direzione e l'esecuzione dei propri ensemble e progetti, Susanne Scholz ha dedicato la maggior parte del tempo alle orchestre d'epoca Les Arts Florissants (Parigi) e La Petite Bande (Belgio).
Parallelamente, dal 1995, Susanne Scholz è attiva come insegnante: a Vienna (MUK) ha formato violinisti barocchi, insegnato ornamentazione e sviluppato e diretto progetti orchestrali dal 1995 al 1999. Nel 1999 Susanne Scholz è stata nominata professore di violino barocco, musica da camera e orchestra barocca presso la Hochschule für Musik und Theater di Lipsia come la più giovane professoressa in Germania. Dal 1999 al 2017 ha svolto un ruolo decisivo nella costruzione del Dipartimento di Musica Antica della HMT. Nel 2012 ha ottenuto una cattedra presso l'Università delle Arti e dello Spettacolo di Graz (KUG), dapprima a tempo parziale accanto alle sue attività a Lipsia, dal 2018 insegna esclusivamente presso l'Istituto di Musica Antica di Graz.
Dal 1999 Susanne Scholz ha diretto numerose importanti produzioni operistiche, molte delle quali come prime rappresentazioni moderne, a Lipsia con opere di Sebastiani, Heinichen, Telemann, Bononcini, Förster e Hasse. Ha inoltre diretto importanti opere di Vivaldi, Purcell, Campra, Stradella, Blow, Fux, Draghi e Lully. In queste produzioni, Susanne Scholz ha curato la direzione musicale in qualità di concertatore. Lavorando regolarmente con colleghi di tutta Europa, si sforza di dimostrare e trasmettere la sua passione per le nuove esigenze di prassi musicale, per l'esplorazione di nuovi repertori e per lo sviluppo di nuove modalità utili a trasmettere questa ricchezza culturale al pubblico.
Più di 50 CD testimoniano il suo lavoro artistico; la sua ricerca artistica ha portato a produzioni di CD molto speciali insieme al suo ensemble Chordae Freybergenses (opere di A. Scandello su violini rinascimentali) e con il suo partner di musica da camera Michael Hell al clavicembalo (sonate op. V di A. Corelli, Sonate e Balletti di Vitali, degli Antonii, Bononcini). Nell'ambito del suo progetto di ricerca sta producendo registrazioni audio e video con Carmen Leoni al clavicordo (opere dei figli e dei cugini di J.S.Bach).
Fin dal suo primo contatto con gli strumenti storici, Susanne Scholz ha collegato il suo lavoro alla ricerca, partendo da studi musicologici e organologici per arrivare alle domande che sorgono quando applica le conoscenze acquisite alla sua pratica artistica. Ha accumulato esperienza su diversi strumenti a violino di tutte le dimensioni e stili, mettendo in relazione gli strumenti il più possibile con la musica scelta.
Dal 2003 ha fatto parte del progetto di ricerca approfondita sugli strumenti musicali antecedenti al 1594 conservati nella cattedrale di Freiberg, diretto dal Museo degli strumenti musicali di Lipsia, guidando la parte di ricerca artistica legata ai cinque strumenti a violino. In seguito a questo impegno, ha costituito i suoi ensemble Chordae Freybergenses e Gamma.ut, ha partecipato a diversi simposi, organizzato concerti e workshop in Belgio, Stati Uniti, Svizzera, Germania, Austria e Italia.
Dal 2018 al 2023 Susanne Scholz ha lavorato al suo progetto di dottorato presso la Scuola di Dottorato per la Ricerca Artistica del KUG, occupandosi della rilevanza della famiglia dei violini rinascimentali di Freiberg. Nell'ambito delle sue ricerche ha pubblicato articoli, prodotto materiale audio e video e realizzato progetti finanziati da terzi.
Dal 2023 dirige un importante progetto di ricerca finanziato dal Fondo austriaco per la scienza sulla produzione del suono nei primi strumenti a violino (“The Restored Speech”), con particolare attenzione ai violini rinascimentali.
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Susanne Scholz ed i corsi dell'ILMA
Susanne Scholz si è unita al corpo docente dell'ILMA a partire dal 2025.
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Susanne Scholz
Renaissance Violins
usanne Scholz is an Austrian musician who has specialized in playing on historical violin instruments with focus on the repertoire of the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical period and in directing ensembles from the Renaissance consort to the opera ensemble.
In addition to her studies in Graz, Vienna (concert diploma violin) and The Hague (baroque violin), Susanne Scholz played in orchestras and with ensembles originated all over Europe and gained musical experience in performances around the world. Before she concentrated on planning, directing and playing her own ensembles and projects, Susanne Scholz dedicated most time to the period orchestras Les Arts Florissants (Paris) and La Petite Bande (Belgium).
Parallelly, since 1995, Susanne Scholz has been active as a teacher: in Vienna (MUK) she trained baroque violinists, taught ornamentation and developed and directed orchestra projects from 1995-99. In 1999 Susanne Scholz was appointed professor for Baroque violin, chamber music and baroque orchestra at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig as the youngest professor in Germany. From 1999 to 2017 she took a decisive part in building up the Early Music Department at the HMT especially concerning the opera productions, which she developed, planned and directed. In 2012 she followed a call to the University of Arts and Performing Art Graz (subsequently called KUG), firstly part-time alongside her activities in Leipzig, from 2018 she teaches exclusively at the Institute of Early Music and Performance Practice in Graz. At the KUG she found the perfect environment for her teaching activity as well as for her research, which also made her decide to take up her doctoral studies at the Doctoral School for Artistic Research in 2018. Besides her regular teaching activities, annual masterclasses around the world and her research connected to the Renaissance violin instruments, Susanne Scholz has lectured during the last fifteen years in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Finnland, Italy, Estonia, Taiwan on different matters within the performance practice field as "Ornaments", "Methodik", "Source reading", special arguments like "Violin positions in the 17th and 18th century", "French violin playing in the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century", “Bowing sources for violin playing” and about the project of the "Freiberg Instruments".
Since 1999 Susanne Scholz directed numerous major opera productions, many of them as first modern-day performances, in Leipzig with operas by Sebastiani, Heinichen, Telemann, Bononcini, Förster and Hasse. She has also led major works by Vivaldi, Purcell, Campra, Stradella, Blow, Fux, Draghi and Lully. In these productions, Susanne Scholz directed the musical side of the productions from the concertmaster’s desk. Working together regularly with colleagues from all over Europe, she strives to demonstrate and pass on her passion for new questions in music practice and exploring new repertoire and how to convey this cultural richness to the audience.
More than 50 CDs testify to her artistic work, the implementation of her artistic research has led to very special CD productions together with her ensemble Chordae Freybergenses (works by A. Scandello on Renaissance violins) and with her chamber music partner Michael Hell on the harpsichord (sonatas op.V by A. Corelli, Sonatas and Balletti by Vitali, degl’Antoni, Bononcini). Wihtin her research project she is currently producing audio and video recordings with Carmen Leoni on the Clavichord (works by the sons and cousins of J.S.Bach).
Since her first contact with historical instruments, Susanne Scholz has connected her work to research, starting from musicological and organological studies to questions arising when applying the enhanced knowledge to her artistic practice. She has accumulated experience on many different violin instruments of all sizes and styles, relating the instruments most closely possible to the music chosen.
From 2020 to 2024 Susanne Scholz initiated and accompanied the project of reconstructing six copies of a violin by Jacobus Stainer involving six violin makers, which led to the publication for the Swiss organological journal “Glareana” containing two articles by her.
From 2003 she was part of the comprehensive research project concerning the musical instruments of the Freiberg cathedral headed by the museum, leading the artistic research part connected to the five violin instruments. In this position she took part in various symposiums, organized concerts and workshops in Belgium, the USA, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Italy. She was part of the first recording with the copies of all 30 instruments, with her ensemble chordae freybergenses part of a recording of a programme of church music possibly executed on the Freiberg instruments in the Freiberg cathedral. In 2015, Susanne Scholz recorded with chordae freybergenses the CD “Im Himmel und auf Erden” with music of the Saxon chapel master Antonio Scandello, publishing in the booklet part of the research done in connection with the instruments.
From 2018 to 2023 Susanne Scholz has worked on her doctoral project at the Doctoral School for Artistic Research at the KUG, dealing with the relevance of the Freiberg Renaissance violin instruments. Withing her researching she has published articles, produces audio and video material and carried out third-party funded project.
Since 2023 she has been leading a major research project funded by the Austrian Science Fund on sound production on early violin instruments (“The Restored Speech”) with a special focus on Renaissance violins. Further-on the project brings her into discourse with many colleagues and in which she collaborates in particular with Carmen Leoni (clavichord), Julian Behr (lute instruments) and Michael Hell (harpsichord).
Following her first encounter with the copies of the Renaissance instruments in 2003, Susanne Scholz has widened her repertoire to the music of Renaissance, understanding more and more the immense importance of the violin family from the middle of the 16th century. Playing and performing with the violin consort and working with theoretical concepts as hexachord solmization has further transformed her general vision of violin playing.
Numerous recordings bear witness to her artistic activity and the research carried out in the field of historical musical practice has led to several musicological publications. Three very special recordings combine both fields: one with her Renaissance ensemble "chordae freybergenses" (“Im Himmel und auf Erden”, 2015) and two together with her favorite harpsichordist Michael Hell ("L'Immagine di Corelli", 2018 and "The origins of Corelli", 2025).
Since 2023 she has been leading a major research project funded by the Austrian Science Fund on sound production on early violin instruments (“The Restored Speech”), which she brings into discourse with many colleagues and in which she collaborates in particular with Carmen Leoni (clavichord), Julian Behr (lute instruments) and Michael Hell (harpsichord). [S. S.]
Susanne Scholz and ILMA courses
Susanne Scholz joined ILMA since 2025.
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