Learn piano with musicians from the Philharmonie Salzburg

Name: Nadia Vranska
Instrument(s): Piano & Percussion

Teaching location: Salzburg (Froschheim, Elisabeth-Vorstadt), online lessons via Skype also possible
Languages of instruction: German
Home visits for an additional charge (surcharge agreed individually): yes
Price € per 30 minutes: 20,- €
Price € per 45 minutes: 25,- €
Price € per 60 minutes: 30,- €
Contact:

Nadia Pesuchin studied piano in her home town of Stara Zagora. This was followed by studies (concert and pedagogy) at the Würzburg University of Music (graduated with distinction). She has been a member of the Salzburg Philharmonic Orchestra since 2004.

Name: Mario Andrea Balzi
Instrument(s): Piano

Teaching location: in Salzburg, Gnigl (also home visits)
Languages of instruction: German, English, Portuguese
Home visits for an additional charge (surcharge agreed individually): yes
Price € per 60 minutes: 40,- €
Contact:

www.musiklehre-salzburg.at

Mario Balzi teaches classical music as well as pop music. He has been a member of the Salzburg Philharmonic Orchestra since 2009.

Name: Minka Popović
Instrument(s): Piano

Teaching location: Salzburg (Lehen) and at the Mozarteum University
Languages of instruction: German, English, Serbian
Home visits for an additional charge (surcharge agreed individually): yes
Price € per 30 minutes: 25,- €
Price € per 45 minutes: 30- €
Price € per 60 minutes: 35,- €
Contact:

Minka Popović was born in Belgrade in 1988. She received top honors at the University of Music in Belgrade, after which she began her studies at the "Universität Mozarteum", Salzburg, with Prof. Cordelia Höfer-Teutsch (2008). In 2012 she completed her bachelor's degree and in 2016 her master's degree (concert subject) in the same class. She also studied in the class of Prof. Eldar Nebolsin (Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin).
Her pianistic career is crowned by an impressive number of competition prizes, including several first prizes at national and international piano competitions: First Prize at the Chopin Competition in Rome (2005), Second Prize at Athens International Piano Competition (Greece, 2006), Second Prize at the "Villa de Capdepera" (international competition, Spain, 2006), Special First Prize at the "Banjaluka Biennale" (Bosnia, 2008), Third Prize at the "XXI Ramon Lull Rotary Club Piano Competition" (Spain, 2014), Special Prize of the Royal Family of Serbia Karadjordjevic for "extraordinary achievements", etc. In 2010 she won a selection for a Mozart concerto (KV 453) with the Mozarteum University Symphony Orchestra. In 2011 she performed in the 'Philharmonic Salon' of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and repeated her great success there in a similar project in February 2013. She is a winner of the 'Young Artist of the Year' award from the Serbian Tonkünstler-Bundesverband (2013).
She has performed numerous concerts in Serbia, Croatia, Italy, Romania, Spain, Greece, Germany and Austria. In addition to performing as a soloist, she is enthusiastic about chamber music in various ensemble formations, currently primarily with her trio "Susak" (special prize at the Braunschweig International Competition 2013) and the flutist Marko Zupan (SLO).
She has collaborated on various projects with soloists from the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Salzburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Camerata Salzburg. She has performed several recitals with tenor Alexander Hüttner (Landestheater Salzburg, BachWerkVokal Salzburg) and soprano Rea Alaburic (Landestheater Salzburg). Minka also worked for a year during her studies as accompanist for the saxophone class at the Mozarteum University (Prof. Peter Gasteiger) and for years as accompanist for the flute class (master class) in Kastela/Croatia (Prof. Marko Zupan). From the winter semester 2019/20 she will be a study assistant to Prof. Cordelia Höfer-Teutsch at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg.
She is the artistic director of the "Susak Music Festival" ("Susačke glazbene večeri") - an event on the small Croatian island that has been attracting international artists for ten years.

 

Name: Emese Wilhelmy, MA
Instrument(s): Piano

Teaching location: Salzburg City, Maxglan
Languages of instruction: German, English, Hungarian
Home visits for an additional charge (surcharge agreed individually): yes
Price € per 30 minutes: 30,- €
Price € per 45 minutes: 35,- €
Price € per 60 minutes: 40,- €
Contact:

Emese Wilhelmy has played a large number of concerts in many concert halls, including the Vienna Hall and the Great Hall of the Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg, the Europahaus and the Ehrbar Hall in Vienna, Eszterházy Palace in Eisenstadt and the Auditorium in Palma de Mallorca.
Emese has been a regular soloist and chamber music artist at the Schloss Mirabell Salzburg concerts since September 2017. In this series, she has already played a variety of chamber music concerts, including as part of a piano duo, violin-piano duo, clarinet trio, piano quartet and piano quintet.
Emese has had the opportunity to work with a number of great and well-known piano professors. Among others with: Paul Badora-Skoda, Paul Gulda, Oliver Gardon, Prisca Benoit, Erik Tawaststjerna and Peter Takacs.
In June 2016 Emese completed her master's degree at the Mozarteum University Salzburg with Imre Rohmann.
Between 2014-2016 Emese studied with A.o. Prof. Imre Rohmann and specialized in chamber music and lied accompaniment during her studies.
In 2017, she founded the chamber music ensemble "Trio Tempora" with the Romanian clarinettist Marius Birtea and the French cellist Madeleine Douçot, with whom she regularly plays concerts in Salzburg as well as in Hamburg, Berlin, Paris, Göttingen and Bad Reichenhall.
Emese already has 75 concert appearances planned for the 2020/21 concert season, including many concerts as a soloist with the Salzburg Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Elisabeth Fuchs. Following a successful concert tour with her Trio Tempora, further concert tours are planned for this season: Various concert tours to the Netherlands, England, Germany and France are already in the preparation phase.