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Manuela Wiesler, Austrian-Icelandic flautist, known for her exceptional performances, particularly of Baroque and contemporary music.

Moved to Iceland in 1973 after she married Sigurður I. Snorrason, where she worked for the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and took part in the running of a few small classical labels including Steinhljóð and one that bore her own name. Moved to Vienna in 1985, although she worked a lot in Sweden and lived there from time to time.

She studied as a flute soloist at the Vienna Conservatory of Music from 1967 to 1972 and after graduation continued her studies in Paris and privately with James Galway. Her big breakthrough came in 1976, she won the Nordic Chamber Music Competition in Helsinki and continued her studies with Marion, Sir James Galway, and Aurèle Nicolet.. The same year she debuted in London.

In 1980 she attracted great attention at the Copenhagen Music Biennale.

Since then she enjoyed her career as a soloist. Overall she recorded and published 4 LPs. Renowned for her recordings of Jolivet's complete works for the flute. Best known for performing modern classical music and there were at the least 30 works written specifically for her by composers such as Áskell Másson, Atli Heimir Sveinsson and Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson plus a number of Swedish composers, but lesser known was her interest in ecclesiastical and baroque music, she was the person that started the summer concert series "Sumartónleikum í Skálholtskirkju" that is still being held on a yearly basis at the Skálhot Cathedral. After her career as a flute soloist, she continued as a music professor and lecturer specializing in work with instrumental soloists at the Music Academy of the Gothenburg University in Sweden. Later she moved back to Austria.

 

Information: www.discogs.com, masteringtheflute.com, www.eclassical.com