Agnes Palmisano, Agnes Palmisano Trio, Mitglieder der Wiener Symphoniker, Wiener Blond, Die Gebrüder
Biography Agnes Palmisano, Agnes Palmisano Trio, Mitglieder der Wiener Symphoniker, Wiener Blond, Die Gebrüder
Agnes Palmisano
was born in Vienna and after graduating from high school she initially trained as a special needs teacher. From 1997 to 2005 she studied IGP singing at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with a focus on music theater and completed a course in breathing and movement.
In 2002 she first encountered the "Wiener Dudler", a hybrid form of yodeling and coloratura singing that emerged in the 19th century, of which she is now considered the leading interpreter and expert, and which is part of UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage. Her intensive artistic engagement with "Viennese music" in the border area between "art" and "entertainment" led to numerous concert and CD projects - some of which were highly successful internationally.
The album "In Finstan" released in 2021 - songs by the Renaissance composer John Dowland translated into Viennese - was one of the best albums of the year according to Ö1 and is listed for the German Record Critics' Award.
She feels at home on a wide variety of stages and sings at the Heurigen as well as in the Vienna Konzerthaus and Musikverein, at festivals such as the Schrammelklang Festival, the Styriarte, the Barocktage Melk, the Festwochen Gmunden, the Carintischer Sommer, the New Years Festival Gstaad and many more.
In the pandemic year of 2020, Agnes Palmisano founded the Wiener Liedkunst association to provide interpreters of Viennese music with a performance platform at the Heurigen Hengl-Haselbrunner. There she curates the weekly series of events with 50 concerts per year. Selected concerts of the "Wiener Liedkunst" are recorded by the city broadcaster W24, and from 2024 the programs will be co-produced and broadcast by ORF 3. Agnes Palmisano acts as a moderator, conducts interviews and sings with the performing artists. Since 2022 she has also curated and supervised the W24 stage at the Donauinselfest.
Music theater productions have taken Agnes Palmisano to the Vienna Volksoper, the Dortmund Opera, the Vienna Burgtheater, the Bavarian State Opera, the Theater an der Wien, the MuTh, but also to multi-purpose halls, gyms and open-air stages in German-speaking countries.
In her new project "Nestroy and DIE FRAU Weiler" she takes on the role of singer, manager, theater director and mother Marie Weiler, partner of Johann Nestroy.
Until 2011, she headed the music department of a school for severely mentally handicapped children in Vienna's second district and was a lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna for integrative music school work. Since 2018, she has been a lecturer at the Vienna private university MUK for Viennese song. Private teaching, voice and droll workshops at the GEA Academy Schrems, among others.
Agnes Palmisano is the mother of two sons and lives in Vienna.
