ENSEMBLES 2009
Maria Fürntratt
Maria Fürntratt has been the choirmaster at the Graz Boarding High school since 1995 and is the Artistic Director of the Singing-Academy.
As a convinced music- and singing-educationalist (master of arts at the Kunstuniversität Graz) she won the national pedagogy price 2004 (“Pädagogischer Panther) for the work with “her” pupils and teaches choir-pedagogy at the university. The Japanese Television NHK produced a 20-minutes portrait about Maria Fürntratt in 1999 and she has gained international and national concert- and jury-member-experiences.
Her focus is on the cultivation of the Austrian traditional singing technique. Her personal slogan is “singing as an adventure”.
