Robert Pobitschka Pianist und Komponist

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ROBERT POBITSCHKA

"NIGHT SONGS"

Premiere performance 26 October 2024 at Zwettl Abbey/Austria

Paul Armin Edelmann - Bariton

Accompanied on piano by the composer

"The soul's abode lies on the 'other side' of reality, on the other side of the light - in the dephts of the night."

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JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
SIX SONATas FoR VIOLIN and piano BWV 1014 - 1019

RAINER KÜCHL - VIOLIN
ROBERT POBITSCHKA - Piano

Excerpts and Interview on TV 21

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Impromptu

ROBERT POBITSCHKA

"IMPROMPTU"

The composer at the "Casparides-Organ" of the parish church in Waidhofen an der Thaya/Austria

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ROBERT POBITSCHKA

"ASSUMPTIONS about SHOSTAKOVICH"

The composer at the "Casparides-Organ" of the parish church in Waidhofen an der Thaya/Austria

"Dimitri Shostakovich's life was full of excepional difficulties: arbitrariness of the political rulers, poverty, war. Many of his compositions reflect resistance, sometimes liberation.

In my piece for organ I tried to express some of my assumptions about it."

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Assumptions about Shostakovich

Premiere performance - Review

Anton Bruckner "memory" A flat major

ROBERT POBITSCHKA - Piano

Live recording Tokyo

Shiodome Media Tower

May 2024

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"Memory"

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Robert Pobitschka

2^ND PIANO CONCERTO

Excerpts from concerts with MOZARTEUM ORCHESTRa SALZBURG

and in chamber music ensemble with

RAINER KÜCHL and REMY BALLOT Violin YOKO SAOTOME-HUBER Viola FRANZ BARTOLOMEY Cello und WOLFGANG GÜRTLER Double Bass

The composer on piano

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2nd Piano concerto

Review

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1 st Piano Concerto

Premiere performance - review

Robert Pobitschka

1^st Piano cONcERTo

Concert-Verein VienNA (Vienna Symphony Orchestra)

Conductor: Wolfgang Dörner

The composer on piano

Live recording at festival "Carinthischer Sommer"

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Lullaby for adults

Robert Pobitschka

"Lullaby for adults"

YOKO SAOTOME-HUBER Violin

The composer on piano

Live recording at Nagoya/Japan

Munetsugo Hall

IStVAN Szelenyi

"SUMMA VITAE"

Phantasy for piano and orchestra after a theme by Franz Liszt (composed 1956)

Miscolc Symphony Orchestra

Conductor:

Laszlo Szelenyi (The composer's son)

ROBERT POBITSCHKA - Piano

"In addition to his work as a composer and professor at the Liszt Academy at Budapest, Istvan Szelenyi was also a renowned Liszt scholar. In an archive in Weimar he discovered a hand written note by Liszt from the very last days of his life, on which Liszt had written down a chromatic theme. Deeply affected by the invasion of Hungary by the Red Army in 1956, he composed his 'Summa Vitae', based on this theme."

Film footage: Duna Televizio Budapest

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Summa vitae

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Alain Michigan - Dancer at the premiere performance

Robert Pobitschka

"ATLANTIA AWAKENS"

Oratory for the protection of the environment (Ballet)

VIENNA RADIO sYMPHONY oRCHESTRA

VIENNNA CHAMBER CHOIR

Conductor: Michael Grohotolsky

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Atlantia awakens

Libretto by Fran Eve Wright

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Schubert - Phantasy f-minor

Franz Schubert PHANTASy f-Minor op. 103

Norman Shetler &

Robert Pobitschka

Piano four hands

Recording Bavarian Radio Bayerischer Rundfunk

Biography

ROBERT POBITSCHKA

After completing his law studies (Mag. jur. at the University of Vienna), Robert Pobitschka returned to his musical training and attended the class of Tatiana Kravchenko at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory. He also participated in masterclasses with Lisa Leonskaya and Lev Naumov.

Since then, Robert Pobitschka has enjoyed success at prestigious venues, including the Konzerthaus and Musikverein in Vienna and the Rudolfinum in Prague. He has performed at major festivals such as the Carinthian Summer Festival and the Haydn Festival Eisenstadt (under the artistic direction of Dr. Reicher). His concert recordings and studio performances have been broadcast by Austrian Radio ORF, Bavarian Radio Bayerischer Rundfunk, Sender Freies Berlin, Duna Televizio - Budapest, Peru TV, and other stations. His concert tours have taken him to Italy, Germany, Russia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, South Africa, China, Peru, and the USA. First performance in Japan in 2015 together with violinist Yoko Saotome-Huber at the Munetsugo Hall in Nagoya.

Several of his compositions address pressing issues of our time. "Kyrie eleison – Dedicated to Nature" and "Water is Life", both for chamber orchestra and soprano, were performed at a United Nations gala concert for World Water Day in the Vienna Hofburg. His environmental oratorio "Atlantia Awakens" was recorded by the Vienna Chamber Choir and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under Michael Grohotolsky and premiered as a ballet at the opening of the UNESCO International Theatre Institute's ballet seminar in Wolfsegg/Austria. The Japanese Gardening Society in Tokyo commissioned the piano work "Cosmos Japanese Garden," which premiered at the opening of the Japanese Garden in the Schönbrunn Palace Park in Vienna. The first performance of his "Twelve Songs Based on the Assisi Prayers for Peace" took place at a gala concert for the United Nations' International Day for Tolerance. Together with librettist Richard Bletschacher, Robert Pobitschka wrote the opera "Sancti Magni Vita" about the life of the medieval Saint Magnus. The work incorporates elements of medieval music.

Pobitschka's Piano Concerto No. 1, "Deep Blue", premiered at the renowned festival Carinthian Summer/Austria. The composer was accompanied at the piano by the Vienna Concert Verein (Chamber Orchestra of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra) under Wolfgang Dörner. As part of the Novalis Art Project in Thuringia/Germany, Pobitschka gave the premiere of his organ composition "Novalis." For the premiere of his Piano Concerto No. 2, he was accompanied by the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg under the direction of Markus Tomasi. In subsequent performances of this concerto, an ensemble of members of the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Rainer Küchl, performed the orchestral part.

Robert Pobitschka is the artistic director and manager of „Kerzenlicht-Konzerte“/ Lower Austria (www.kerzenlicht-konzerte.at)

MUSIC SAMPLES

"NIGHT SONGS"

Song cycle based on texts by Klara Köttner-Benigni, Rainer Maria Rilke, Georg Trakl, Novalis, Richard Bletschacher and Joseph von Eichendorff

Voice and Piano
Premiere performance by Paul Armin Edelmann, baritone, accompanied on piano by the composer - 26 October 2024 - Zwettl Abbey, Festsaal

Foto: Constanze v. Othegraven

"VIA LACTEA"

Piano

Premiere performance by the composer - 7 September 2024 - Recital on the "Liszt-Grand Piano" at Museum Retz/Austria

150. PSALM "LAUDATE DOMINUM IN SANCTIS EIUS"

Vocal Ensemble and Organ

Premiere performance by the ensemble "Stimmtoniker" and the composer - 31 March 2024 - Church St. Michael Pulkau/Austria

BALLAD

Piano

Premiere performance by the composer - 21 October 2023 - Recital on the "Liszt-Grand Piano" at Museum Retz/Austria

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IMPROMPTU ("Audible Invisible II")

Organ

Premiere performance by the composer - 16 July 2023 - Concert at the "Casparides-Organ" of the parish church in Waidhofen an der Thaya/Austria

"AUDIBLE INVISIBLE"

Cembalo

Premiere performance by the composer - 25 March 2023 - Concert in the carner of Pulkau

CHANSON "TO AN UNKNOWN PERSON"

Piano (Arr.)

Premiere performance by the composer - 23 October 2022 - Zwettl Abbey, Festsaal

FOUR SONGS

After poems by Richard Bletschacher

Voice and Orchestra

"ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT SHOSTAKOVICH"

Organ

Premiere performance by the composer - 10 July 2022 - Concert at the "Casparides-Organ" of the parish church in Waidhofen an der Thaya/Austria

"IN THE FOG" PICTURES OF MOODS

Organ

Premiere performance by the composer - 21 November 2021 - Concert at the "Casparides-Organ" of the parish church in Waidhofen an der Thaya/Austria

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FOUR CHANSONS

After poems by Richard Bletschacher

Voice and Piano

2nd PIANO CONCERTO

Piano and String Orchestra

Premiere performance by string players of the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, conducted by Markus Tomasi, with the composer at the piano - 16 July 2018 - Opening Concert of Drosendorf International Summer Academy in the courtyard of Drosendorf Castle

"A MANI STRETTE"

After a poem by Natale Porritiello

Violin, Piano and Speaker

Premiere performance in the presence of the author by Yoko Saotome-Huber, violin and the composer on piano - 26 October 2025 - Concert at Karl Schiske Memorial Hall at Museum Orth

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1st PIANO CONCERTO

Piano and Orchestra

Premiere performance by Vienna Concert Verein (Vienna Symphony Orchestra) conducted by Wolfgang Dörner, the composer on piano - 10 August 2025 - Serenade Concert "1815 - 1915 - 2015" as part of the "Carinthian Summer" music festival in the courtyard of Ossiach Abbey

"NOVALIS"

Organ

Premiere performance by the composer - 24 June 2015 - Concert on the "Novalis Organ" at the Novalis Art Project in Schlöben near Jena/Thuringia

"LULLABY FOR ADULTS" - FOR YOKO

Violin and Piano

Premiere performance by Yoko Saotome-Huber, violin, and Kumi Miyagawa, piano - 15 April 2014 - Tokyo

"ADVERTISEMENT FOR DROSENDORF"

Based on a text by Julian Schutting

Voice and piano

Premiere performance in the presence of the poet by Flaka Goranci, mezzosoprano with the composer at the piano - 13 July 2013 - Opening concert of the Drosendorf International Summer Academy

"SANCTI MAGNI VITA"

Opera in Latin with German interludes. Libretto by Richard Bletschacher based on the medieval biography of Saint Magnus from the 9th century

"ATLANTIA AWAKENS"

Environmental Protection - Oratory (Ballet) based on a libretto by Fran Eve Wright

Premiere performance as a Ballet by dancer Alain Michigan, Andrea Lauren Brown, soprano, Andreas Jankowitsch, baritone, Vienna Chamber Choir, Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna conducted by Michael Grohotolsky - 29 July 2007 - Opening of the Ballet Seminar of the UNESCO International Theatre Institute (ITI) in Wolfsegg/Austria

"WATER IS LIFE II"

After a painting by Zhao Yusheng

Piano

Premiere performance by the composer - 2 May 2007 - Vienna

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"WASSER IS LIFE I"

Based on a poem by Liu Ding Guo

Voice and String Orchestra

Premiere performance by Andrea Lauren Brown, soprano and Austria's First Women Chamber Orchestra, conducted by the composer - 21 March 2007 - Concert to commemorate International World Water day of the United Nations at Hofburg Ceremonial Hall, Vienna

"SONGS FROM THE TWELVE ASSISI PEACE PRAYERS"

Voice and Piano

Premiere performance by Andrea Lauren Brown, the composer on piano - 16 November 2004 - Concert for the United Nations International Day for Tolerance, Vienna

"THE SEA PAINTINGS OF MIRA ALEKSANDRA STEFANOV"

Piano or String Orchestra

Premiere performance by the composer - 7 December 2000 - at the painter's vernissage in Vienna

"KYRIE ELEISON-DEDICATED TO NATURE"

Voice (or Violin) and Piano (or Orchestra)

Premiere performance by Martha Jane Howe, alto, the composer on piano - 1999 - Vienna, Alte Schmiede

Premiere performance as a Ballet in the choreography of Alexandra Young-Schmidt, with Cynthia O'Brien, violin, the composer on piano - 21 March 2002 - Concert to commemorate the International Earth Day of the United Nations, UNO-City Vienna

"COSMOS JAPANESE GARDEN"

Piano

Work commissioned by the Japanese Gardening Society, Tokyo, for the opening of the Japanese Garden in the Schönbrunn Palace Park, Vienna

Premiere performed by the composer - 9 May 1999 - Opening ceremony

SIX SONGS AFTER POEMS BY ERNST CHRISTIAN PACHER

Voice and Piano

Premiere performance by Jutta Geister, alto, the composer on piano - 20 July 1997 - Vienna

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