BIO PIANO

Irish pianist Elaine Loebenstein is an experienced accompanist, collaborative pianist and improviser based in Vienna. ​A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, Loebenstein completed a Masters in Advanced Accompaniment at the Guildhall ​School of Music and Drama in London under the tutelage of renowned pianists including Graham Johnson. She was ​subsequently awarded the Broadwood Fellowship in Advanced Accompaniment by the RSAMD in Glasgow (now ​RCS). As a concert accompanist she has performed with numerous instrumentalists and singers in recital at venues ​including the National Concert Hall Dublin, Cork Opera House, St. Martin in the Fields London, Kelvingrove Museum ​Glasgow, BBC City Halls, St. Giles’ Cathedral Edinburgh, Teatro della Maestranza Seville, the Magnificent Spiegeltent, ​Canberra Theatre, the National Library of Australia, MOAD, Wesley Music Centre and Llewellyn Hall Canberra, and at ​festivals including the Edinburgh Festival, the Canberra Centenary Festival, Canberra International Music Festival, ​Boyle Arts Festival, Voices in the Forest and Art Song. She has appeared internationally on radio and television ​including live broadcasts on RTE Lyric FM, RTE Radio 1 and RTE Television (Ireland), ABC Radio National, ABC ​Canberra and ABC Classic (Australia), Deutsche Welle (Germany) and ÖRF (Austria). Work with choirs and ​ensembles has included performing with the Riverina Chamber Orchestra and the Canberra Festival Orchestra ​(Australia), Glasgow Philharmonic Choir, the Gliondar Ensemble and the National Wind Ensemble of Great Britain. ​She has been employed by Lyric Opera Ireland, Glasthule Opera, New Dublin Voices, the National Chamber Choir of ​Ireland, UCD Choral Scholars, the Irish Chamber Orchestra, RTÉ, the Royal Irish Academy of Music, TU Conservatory ​of Music and Drama Dublin and the School of Music at Australia National University. Her extended skills as an ​accompanist and particularly as an improviser allow a huge degree of flexibility in terms of collaboration with artists ​of all genres, and with other art forms including spoken word, literature and poetry as well as with visual art. She had ​the privelege of extemporising a musical response to a major retrospective of the work of Australian artist Sidney ​Nolan live at the National Gallery of Australia. Most recently she performed alongside bestselling author Daniel ​Kehlmann reading from his book Lichtspiel at a sell-out event in Vienna’s Konzerthaus.