Anne Marie
Dragosits
The Tyrolean-born harpsichordist Anne Marie Dragosits has been professor of harpsichord at the Anton Bruckner University in Linz since 2016. Since 2021, she teaches thoroughbass at the Haute école de musique Genève. Her teaching activities are complemented by numerous masterclasses.
She studied with Wolfgang Glüxam in Vienna and with Ton Koopman and Tini Mathot in The Hague, and received important impulses for her basso continuo playing at master classes given by Lars Ulrik Mortensen and Jesper Christensen. As a sought-after soloist and passionate continuo player, she travels the world with ensembles such as vivante, barucco, Barocksolisten München, musica alchemica, l'Orfeo Barockorchester or the newly founded Accademia degli Stravaganti.
Her special passion is the exploration of historical harpsichords, which is documented by numerous recordings, some of them award-winning: ITALIA! (on the Giusti of 1681 in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg), "avec discretion" (Froberger on a Girolamo de Zentis in private possession in England), "le clavecin mythologique" (on the Taskin of 1787 in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg) and "Ich schlief, da träumte mir" (on the Zell of 1728, also in Hamburg). The next CD project will be devoted to late Baroque French music around Louis XV and Madame Pompadour.
In 2017 she conducted her first opera, "La Rosinda" by Francesco Cavalli, in the black box of the Landestheater Linz in a cooperation between the Opera Studio and the Bruckner University Linz. A production of Bernardo Pasquini's "Caino e Abele" followed there in 2021.
In 2012 she completed her artistic doctorate on Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (ca.1580-1651) and his vocal music as part of the docARTES program in Holland / Belgium. A recent biography of the composer with numerous new biographical findings was published in 2020 by LIM (Libreria Musicale Italiana, Lucca): Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger - "a rather extravagant man". The publication of an English translation, with further additions according to new archival finds, is planned for 2023.
In 2022 she was awarded the Jakob Stainer Prize of the Province of Tyrol.