
Raphael Kasprian
Violin (Classical Music)
Qualifications
- Master of Arts (Universität Mozarteum)
- Diplom (Kärntner Landeskonservatorium)
- Lehrbefähigung (Kärntner Landeskonservatorium)
Education
- Kärntner Landeskonservatorium (class of Prof Brian Finlayson)
- Universität Mozarteum (class of Prof Benjamin Schmid)
- Instituto Internacional de Música de Cámara de Madrid (class of Prof Günter Pichler)
- Masterclasses with members of the Juilliard, Alban Berg, Amadeus, Guarneri, Bartók and Smetana Quartets
Teaching Experience
- Since 2016: violin class at the Johann-Josef-Fux-Konservatorium Graz
- Since 2015: Landesmusikschulwerk Oberösterreich
- Masterclasses and seminars, including
- Conservatory, Ljubljana/Slovenia
- Bayerische Musikakademie, Marktoberdorf/Germany
- Orchestra seminar, Kofu/Japan
- Austrian Masterclasses, Zell an der Pram
Selected Performances
- Concerto soloist with
- Radio Orchestra Ljubljana/Slovenia
- Sinfonieorchester des Kärntner Landeskonservatoriums
- Second violinist of the Acies Quartet
- Konzerthaus and Musikverein, Vienna
- Brucknerhaus, Linz
- Kammermusikfest Lockenhaus
- Teatro dei Dioscuri, Rome/Italy
- Fundacion Juan March, Madrid/Spain
- Tiroler Festspiele, Erl
- Carinthischer Sommer, Ossiach & Villach
- Orchestral performances
- Bruckner Orchester Linz
- recreation Graz
- Styriarte festival orchestra
- Kärntner Sinfonieorchester
- Stellenbosch Symphony Orchestra
Discography
- Gulda & Gould: String Quartets (Gramola, 2019)
- Janácek: String Quartets (Gramola, 2018)
- Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 3 & 5 (Gramola, 2012)
- Dimitri Ashkenazy live at the Klassik Musikfest Mühlviertel (paladino music, 2011)
- Alberto Mesirca live at the Klassik Musikfest Mühlviertel (paladino music, 2011)
- Schubert: String Quintet (Gramola, 2009)
- Debussy, Gulda & Puccini: String Quartets (Gramola, 2009)
- Haydn, Beethoven & Schubert: String Quartets (Gramola, 2007)