22nd International Festival “Ars vivendi clavicembalum” – MAGDALENA HASIBEDER

The Austrian harpsichordist Magdalena Hasibeder teaches at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, where she played a key role in founding the Institute for Early Music.
The concert is organized with the support of the Austrian Cultural Forum in Belgrade and thanks to the hospitality and cooperation of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Program:
Alessandro Poglietti (ca. 1630-1683)
Toccata sopra Cassedio di Filipsburgo
Codex Benisch

Ferdinand Tobias Richter (1651-1711)
Partita in d
Toccatina, Capriccio – Allemande – Courante – Minuett
(Wien, Minoritenkonvent 743)

Gottlieb Theophil Muffat (1690-1770)
Prelude

Johann Joseph Fux (1660-1741)
Partita in A minor
Allemande – Courante – Sarabande – Aria – Menuet – Gigue – Menuet
(ÖNB: Mus.Hs. 18685)

Magdalena Hasibeder is an harpsichordist, organist and ensemble director born in Linz, Austria. She studied in Linz (music high school), Vienna, and Basel, with teachers including Michael Radulescu, Wolfgang Glüxam, Andrea Marcon, Wolfgang Zerer, and Rudolf Lutz. As a versatile performer, she appears throughout Europe as a soloist, chamber musician, and conductor, collaborating with ensembles such as the Venice Baroque Orchestra, the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, and Ars Antiqua Austria.

She is the recipient of several competition prizes, including first prize at the International Organ Competition on the Collon Organ in Herford/Germany, second prize in Schlägl/Austria, and third prize at the Paul Hofhaimer Competition in Innsbruck/Austria.

In 2010, she worked as an assistant to Andrea Marcon at Theater Basel and made her conducting debut there in 2012 with Purcell’s The Fairy Queen. That same year, she founded the concert series Diapsalma – Sacred Concerts at St. Arbogast in Basel, which she directed until 2022. Since 2012, she has been teaching at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, where she played a key role in establishing the Institute for Early Music.

Her CD recordings have received several awards. Most recently, she appeared in two duo programs with actor Klaus Maria Brandauer, including a performance at the Brucknerhaus Linz as part of the European Capital of Culture 2024. An upcoming premiere recording with Erich Traxler on the “Viennese Harpsichord of the mdw” will be released in 2026. Hasibeders next project ist he performance of an opera by Johann Joseph Fux „Giunone Placata“.

More information: www.magdalenahasibeder.at