Robert Fraisl

Guitar (Classical Music)

Artistic & Pedagogical Education 

  • 1990-1999 Study of classical guitar with Jorgos Panetsos at the "Prayner Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Arts" in Vienna, graduating with a concert diploma
  • 1993-2003 Further education and several master classes with Prof. Luise Walker (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna), Prof. Costas Cotsiolis (International Guitar Festival in Volos, Greece), Prof. Konrad Ragossnig (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna) and Prof. Jozef Zsapka (Academy of Performing Arts, Bratislava)

Teaching Experience

  • Guest Lectures at the "Chetana Music Academy", Thrissur, India
  • guitar teacher at the "Gymnasium und Realgymnasium Institut Neulandschulen"
  • Teaching and leading own guitar classes for concert as well as instrumental and vocal pedagogy in the field of classical music at the "Prayner Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Arts"
  • Teaching and leading own guitar classes for concert as well as instrumental and vocal pedagogy in the field of classical music at the "Vienna Conservatory" and guitar teacher at the "Penzinger Musikschule"
  • Since 2020 lecturer at the AMP

Concerts & Performances

  • 1984-1990 Career as a street musician in Europe, Asia and Australia. Concerts in the tourism sector, at festivals, vernissages, readings, parties, celebrations, etc. both as a soloist and in various, often changing line-ups and in genres as diverse as blues, rock, jazz, flamenco, world music, folk, avant-garde or improvisation
  • 1993-2003 Performances as soloist, in a guitar duo and in a guitar quartet with a purely classical program in Austria (among others at the "Forum Gitarre Wien", the "Palais Rasumofsky", the "Palais Wittgenstein", the "Großer Ehrbarsaal", the "Joseph Haydn Konservatorium", Eisenstadt, the "Club der Wiener Musikerinnen", etc.) ) and various Asian countries such as Indonesia, Thailand and India (including "Kerala Kalamandalam - University for Art and Culture", Cheruthuruthy, India and "Chetana Music Academy", Thrissur, India)
  • 1996-2000 Organizing member of the international guitar festival „Forum Gitarre Wien“
  • 2003-2004 Foundation of the crossover formation "Chicken Curry" and recordings in the Ederhof Studio in Mostviertel