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The Austrian choral conductor and music teacher, Franz Farnberger, studied at the University and the Musikhochschule in Wien, graduating in 1997 with teaching degree in music education and history, piano and vocal accompaniment.
For seven years, Franz Farnberger served as Kapellmeister of the Wiener Sängerknaben. In this role, he conducted more than 800 concerts worldwide and accompanied them on recordings. In 1983, he assumed the artistic directorship of the St. Florianer Sängerknaben. Responsible for the boys' musical training, program preparation, and concert direction, he led the choir on concert tours to every continent and conducted numerous CD recordings. He collaborated in opera and concert performances with conductors such as Franz Welser-Möst, Dennis Russell Davies, and René Jacobs. He also enjoyed decades of concert collaborations and numerous CD recordings in the field of Baroque music with Gunar Letzbor and his ensemble Ars Antiqua Austria. Since autumn 2018, his former soprano soloist, Markus Stumpner, has been the choir's conductor, while Farnberger remains the artistic director.
From 1984 to 1994, Franz Farnberger was director of the Linzer Singschule, and from 1990 to 2017, he taught at the Brucknerkonservatorium and later at the Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität in Linz.
Franz Farnberger also performs as a piano accompanist in recitals, in recent years primarily with his former choirboy, Alois Mühlbacher. He recorded several CD's with Mühlbacher during Mühlbacher's time as a choirboy, and this collaboration continues to this day (e.g., the CD recording "Urlicht"). In 2020, as conductor of the Baroque ensemble Scaramouche, he led a highly acclaimed recording of Antonio Vivaldi's Nisi Dominus and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with Alois Mühlbacher as counter-tenor. He currently lives in in Sankt Florian, Austria. |
