CURRICULUM VITAE

Education

Heidemarie Wiesner was born in Bautzen, Germany at the heartland of Sorbish Region. A recognised German ethnic community with its own language and culture, renounced for a rich tradition of music and arts.

She began playing the piano at the age of five. In 1985 and 1987 she won the highly acclaimed National Young Painist competition in Zwickau and later the Robert Schumann Special prize. She immediately began giving concerts and was noticed by the press, radio and television.

At the age of fourteen she made her début as a soloist accompanied by the Bautzen Symphony Orchestra and at eighteen she played Beethoven's 1st Piano Concerto at the Semperoper (Dresden's Opera House) accompanied by the Staatskapelle Dresden.

She continued her studies in music and piano with Günter Kootz, and simultanously learned improvisation with Peter Jarchow. She enrolled at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Conservatory in Leipzig (Diploma 1992) and at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam with H. Dercksen, where she gained the Soloist Performing Diploma in 1997.

She took several masterclasses with well known musicians such as Andràs Schiff, Paul Badura-Škoda, Gyorgy Sebøk, Christian Ivaldi and Håkon Austbø.

Activity

In 1998  Heidemarie moved to Milan and began working with a number of Italian based musicians and artists. 

She travels from Milan to give concerts and recitals internationally as a soloist, in chamber groups, flute-piano duo (with the flautist Francesco Bonafini, since 1994), with piano trio and quartet. She is frequently invited to perform with other non-traditional combination as flute, harp, piano and percussion quartet.

She is dedicated to the interpretation of classic and contemporary Sorb composers, and several pieces have been composed especially for her chamber music performances.

She is also active in promoting new projects to combine music and performing arts such as improvisations with contemporary dance (she has been working with Barbara Friedrich for a long time, and has done several shows with Roberta Claren and Cristina Negro) and also with poetry, painting and film. She organises Improvisation masterclasses for musicians and dancers at the Teatro Greco in Milan and at the Paolo Grassi Drama School in Milan working alongside the Deutsches Institut für Improvisation and Goethe Institut Milano.

She accompanies at flute masterclasses given by  Jacques Zoon and Bruno Cavallo.

From 1999 to 2004 she was the artistic director of the chamber music season at the Casa G. Cini cultural institute in Ferrara.

Since 2003 she has been promotor and patron for ArtSalon cultural forum in Milan- an increasingly popular movement where independent musicians and performing artists collaborating in the arts of classicial and improvised music, poetry reading, dance and painting.