Queer Date with Mozart
Countertenor & Concert Grand Piano in the Carabinieri Hall
The DomQuartier Salzburg opens its Baroque doors for a special immersive sound experience: in the opulent Carabinieri Hall of the Residenz, classical music meets queerness.
Countertenor Bernhard Landauer, accompanied on a Bösendorfer concert grand piano by Ji-Hye Jung, fills the hall with arias and songs brimming with love, passion, and drama. Florian Niederseer guides the program, reading texts of queer love and opening new perspectives on identity, desire, and visibility. In conjunction with Pride Festival Salzburg, baroque splendour becomes a vibrant sonic landscape, resonating with the full spectrum of sound.
Bernhard Landauer
Bernhard Landauer
Born in Innsbruck and based in Vienna, Bernhard Landauer’s repertoire spans from the Middle Ages to the present, including works unusual for countertenor (e.g., Schubert, Strauss, Xenakis). A distinguished interpreter of contemporary music, he has premiered numerous works and appeared under renowned directors at venues such as the Berlin State Opera, Vienna State Opera/Volksoper, Oper Frankfurt, the Bregenz Festival, and the Handel Festival in Halle. He has collaborated with ensembles and conductors including the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs, Ton Koopman, and Mstislav Rostropovich. In education, he taught at the Vienna Conservatory from 1998–2004 and, since 2005, as a lecturer with the Austrian Masterclasses as well as through his own workshops.
Ji-Hye Jung
Ji-Hye Jung
As a soloist and chamber musician, Ji-Hye Jung has performed with the Camerata Salzburg in the Great Hall of the Mozarteum, at the Berlin Philharmonie with musicians of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, at the “Young Classic Europe” International Music Festival in Passau, at the Donauforum Linz, and at the Seoul Arts Center. Her career began as a prizewinner at the International Mozart Competition. Since 2019 she has been a piano lecturer at the University Mozarteum Salzburg, completing her artistic habilitation in 2023. She has given numerous solo recitals in Italy, Austria, Korea, and Germany, and together with pianists Ji-Soo Yoo and Jung-Eun Kim performed the complete Mozart oeuvre for piano four hands.
Florian Niederseer
Florian Niederseer
Florian Niederseer is the founder and chair of Heublumen – LGBTQIA+ Initiative and a performing poet. A spoken-word artist since 2014, he has appeared on numerous European stages. With Heublumen, he combines artistic vision and organizational leadership, creating spaces where diversity, openness, and encounter come together.
Program:
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Sympathy, Hob. XXVIa:33
Wolfgang Amadé Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Sonata in A major, Movement I: Allegro grazioso, K. 331
Aria “Ombra felice! – Io ti lascio, e questo addio“, K. 255
Piano Sonata in A major, Movement II: Menuetto, K. 331
Wolfram Wagner (b. 1962)
Excerpt from „Lieder für unbegleitete Singstimme nach Texten von Mascha Kaléko“
Wolfgang Amadé Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Sonata in A major, Movement III: Alla Turca, Allegretto, K. 331
