Georg Hamann, Violin & Viola
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Georg Hamann was born in Vienna in 1960. He studied at the University of Music in Vienna with members of the Alban Berg Quartett (Klaus Maetzl, violin and Hatto Beyerle, viola) and took part in masterclasses of Max Rostal and William Primrose. Georg Hamann is the principal violist of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra. He was teaching viola as the assistant of Hatto Beyerle at the University in Hannover (Germany) and is currently a Professor for Violin and Viola at the University of Music in Vienna. He regularly gives masterclasses for violin, viola and chamber music in Europe, Israel and Japan. As a guest professor he has been invited by the universities in Brasov, Cluj, Dublin, Ljubljana, Utrecht, Vilnius, Warsaw and Turku. He has been a member of the „Ensemble Wien Tokyo“ and the Arcus Ensemble Wien and has performed with these ensembles all over Europe, Israel, USA and Japan. As a soloist Georg Hamann has performed in concert-halls such as Musikverein and Konzerthaus Vienna, the Mozarteum Salzburg, Verdi Hall Milan, Casals Hall Tokyo, Carnegie Hall New York and at famous festivals (Wiener Festwochen, Styriarte Graz, Edinburgh Festival, Menuhin Festival Gstaad, Santo Domingo Festival, Woodstock Mozart Festival, Nagano Festival Japan, etc.). His chamber music partners include Philippe Entremont, Oleg Maisenberg, Bruno Canino, Christian Tetzlaff, Ernst Kovacic, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Christoph Richter, Boris Pergamenschikow, Sharon Kam, Alois Brandhofer, Ildiko Raimondi and members of the Alban Berg Quartett. In 1998 Georg Hamann founded together with Ludwig Müller, Barna Kobori and Christophe Pantillon the „aron quartett“ which is resident at the Arnold Schoenberg Center in Vienna. The quartet has been performing at festivals and concert-halls worldwide and introduced itself to the Armenian audience with two concerts during the 1st Austro-Armenian Music Festival in 2009.
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