Petra Music is Senior Lecturer for flute at the University Mozarteum Salzburg. Concert tours lead her as soloist, chamber musiscian and orchestra musician to festivals all over the world. Petra is a demanded workshop clinician for flutists of all ages and abilities. She obtained her doctoral degree in flute performance at the University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign, USA studying with Jonathan Keeble and her masters degrees in flute performance and flute pedagogy at the Kunstuniversität Graz studying with Dieter Flury.  Furthermore she obtained a masters degree in historical flute performance from at the conservatorio dell'Abaco in Verona, Italy studying with Marcello Gatti and Marco Brolli. Next to her teaching activity at the department for music education in Innsbruck, Petra is an active orchestra- and chambermusician and engaged networker for various flute organisations  In Magazinen wie Flute Talk, Flöte Aktuell, Pan Magazin und Contemporary Music Review publiziert Petra Artikel zu Themen der Flötendidaktik und des Repertoires. In magazines such as Flute Talk, Flöte Aktuell and Pan, Petra has published articles relating flute teaching and flute technique.

 

Petra Music, Flute
(Dr. Mag. art. Mag phil. Petra Music, MA, MA)

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Dr. Petra Music is flutist and pedagogue from Graz, Austria. She teaches flute, instrumental teaching, repertoire and chamber music at the Mozarteum University Salzburg/Innsbruck. She performs freelance with modern and historical orchestras such as  the Tiroler Symphonieorchester. A busy concert schedule has led her as a soloist, chamber musician and in orchestra-, new music-, and opera projects to festivals in Europe, USA, Australia, China and Taiwan. Petra is also a sought after masterclass/workshop teacher for flutists of all playing abilities and levels which she conducted in cities such as Moscow, Amsterdam, Berlin, Munich, Taipei, Cologne, London, Luxembourg amongst others. Furthermore, she serves as adjudicator for initiatives as the Durch flute competition (2021), My Flute Konkurs, Moscow (2012-2016) and the Azumi flute competition (2009-2011). This task puts her in permanent contact with many international flute prodigies. Petra enjoys following their musical development with great interest. In magazines such as Flute Talk, Flöte Aktuell and Pan, Petra has published articles relating flute teaching and flute technique.

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Petra completed her musical studies with honours (Flute Performance, M.A. and Instrumental Pedagogy, Mag.art.) at the Kunstuniversität Graz (Dieter Flury, Vienna Philharmonic) , the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Doctor of Musical Arts, studying with Jonathan Keeble) and the Conservatorio dell’Abaco in Verona, Italy (MA in historical flutes studying with Marcello Gatti and Marco Brolli). She attended master classes with some of the most gifted flutists of our time (Peter Lukas Graf, Felix Renggli, Andras Adorjan, Robert Aitken, Moshe Epstein, Freerk Zeijl, Carlo Jans, Janos Balint, Amy Porter, Thomas Robertello, Denis Bouriakov, Eva Amsler, Ian Clarke, Wissam Boustany, Emily Beynon, Camilla Hoitenga , Eva Furrer, Rachel Brown, Linde Brunmayer Tutz and many others). During her studies, Petra received grants and prizes for her artistic development by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign the Emanuel und Sofie Fohn Stiftung Wien and two scholarships of the Bundeskanzleramts für Kunst in Wien and Yehudi Menuhins foundation Live Music Now.
 

 

As in her frequent travels, Petra finds her home in many musical styles. She presented her debut CD "...gebrochene bluomen" with works by Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven for flute and piano in 2009, followed by Musica Delicata with baroque works for flute, organ and trumpet by Händel, Bach, Telemann and Mozart in 2012. In 2010 she performed as a soloist in the Ludwigsburg Meisterkonzert with works by Bulla, Chaminade, Hidas und Rimsky-Korsakov and she frequently visited China in Orchestra and Solo concert tours (Österreichische Philharmonie, 2009), Taiwan (Grazer Salonorchester, 2011), Österreichisch-Chinesisches Kulturforum 2013, Hangzhou (2011).
 

 

She especially enjoys the contemporary repertoire and working with composers of her time. Several of her contemporary chamber music and solo performances were recorded and broadcasted by the Austrian TV and Radio stations ORF. In 2010, she premiered her New Music Project „Metamorphoses“ at the European Flute Festival 2010 in Munich with newly commissioned works for flute and piano. Furthermore, Petra has performed with the UI New Music Ensemble, Klangforum Wien, Windkraft, Szene Instrumental at festivals in Alte Schmiede Wien, Konzerthaus Wien, Transart Festival Bozen, Klangspuren Schwaz, Klangperspektiven Wien, Hörfest Graz and Musikprotokoll Steirischer Herbst. Her insight as a Literature Scientist (German Philology, Mag.phil, KUG Graz 2003) sparked her interest in the relations between Literature and Music. In her Masters thesis about Harrison Birtwistle’s Celan Settings, she explored the similar aesthetic styles in writing poetry and composing music. Her dissertation project regards the use of literary quotes in Nicolas A. Huber’s chamber music for flute. She has published several essays concerning N.A. Huber and M. Spahlinger in Contemporary Music Review in 2009.

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Besides these more “serious” aspects of music Petra loves the possibilities of “Cross-Over” projects to inspire young musicians. She has worked in Jazz, Pop and World Music settings and has collaborated with many gifted artists and ensembles such as UI Opera Ensembe, UI Symphony, UI Philharmonia Orchestra, KlangImpuls Orchestra, UI New Music Ensemble unter Eduardo Diazmunoz, Martha Graham Dance Company New York, Grazer Salonorchester, Österreichische Philharmonie, Wiener Kammerorchester and Klangforum Wien. Concerts have brought her to the Fringe Festival Melbourne/Australien 2001, Quedlinburg/Deutschland 2003, Live Music Now in der Grazer Oper 2003, Detmold/Deutschland 2004, FIMU Festival Belfort/Frankreich 2005 und 2006, St. Louis Flute Day/USA 2005, Chicago Flute Fest/USA 2006, Martha Graham Dance Company New York, Krannert Center of the Performing Arts/USA 2007, Stefaniensaal Graz 2007, Stephansdom Wien 2008, Klangforum Wien im Wiener Konzerthaus 2009, Grazer Burg 2009, Polytheatre Beijing/China 2009, Beijing Concert Hall, Zhengzhou Concert Hall Hangzhou, 2011, Sun-Ya-Tsen Hall, Kaishung 2012, Taipei 2012, Chonqing Concert Hall 2013, Beijing 2013, ADAMS Flute Festival 2013, Flute Days Moskau 2012-2014, Tiroler Landestheater since 2014, Adams Flute Festival Ittervoort 2013 and 2016, Syrinx Flötenfest Feldkirch 2015, Tuesday Microgrooves, 2016.

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In 2023, she joined the Miyazawa family as Miyazawa Artist and plays on a Miyazawa flute in silver with a riser in red gold.  She plays historical flutes from the Renaissance to the Romantic period by Martin Wenner and Rudolf Tutz.