Austria
Manfred Schiebel was born in Vienna. At the age of seven, he started to join the "Mozart-Sängerknaben, Vienna", where his first music lessons began. Piano studies with Prof. Thomas Kreuzberger, as well as studies for conducting at the "Hochschule fuer Musik" in Vienna with Prof. Karl Oesterreicher, studies for accompanating and coaching for singers with Dr. Harald Goertz.
Since 1991 he has been teaching at the MUK Privatuniversity of Vienna (former conservatory), where he received a professorship in 2017, and since 2002 also at University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. He has repeatedly worked as an accompanator with famous artists as E. Gruberova, E. Garanca, G. Bumbry, M. Zampieri, M. Erdmann, I. d’Arcangelo, F. Bonisolli, G. Taddei, L. Nucci, F. Furlanetto, S. Ramey, J. Botha, G. Tichy, R. Trost, W. Fink, Miroslav & Peter Dvorsky, Viennese Boys Choir, and many others with whom he gave already concerts on 5 differents continents. He also accompanated different masterclasses and worked with famous singing-teachers as Martha Eggerth, Helena Łazarska, Jewgenij Nesterenko, Krassimira Stoyanova, Leo Nucci, Walter Berry, Hilde Zadek, as well as he gave masterclasses himself for singers and pianists all over Europe, for example at The Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznan, Metropolia University in Helsinki or University for Music in Tallinn, as well as in Teheran and Havanna.
From 1994 to 2008 he was the art director of the Choral Society „Young-Vienna“. He got big successes in many countries and big concert halls with this choir, up to concerts for the Royal Family in Thailand. He has been working with different choirs, nowadays he leads the choir of the singing department at University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.
Some years ago he founded a piano four-hands duo with the polish pianist Marcin Kozieł, with whom he had concerts at different places in Austria, Poland, Italy and Latvia.
Since 2011 he has been the musical director of he chamber music festival „Klassik im Advent“ in Austria, which takes place in a big hotel on the top of a mountain almost 2000m high.
His extensive repertoire, reaching from the classical song and oratorio via opera to operetta and musical, but also including chamber music and the Viennese art and Austrian folk music, makes him a much sought-after accompanist. Since he was the musical director of the Nestroy-Festival at Burg Liechtenstein with KSCH Elfriede Ott in 1993, he has been dealing with theater music and chansons more intensively.
Concerts, CD-recordings as choir director, pianist and organist, as well as appearances on TV and radio broadcasting in several continents are rounding off his activities as pianist and conductor.
Since 1991 he has been teaching at the MUK Privatuniversity of Vienna (former conservatory), where he received a professorship in 2017, and since 2002 also at University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. He has repeatedly worked as an accompanator with famous artists as E. Gruberova, E. Garanca, G. Bumbry, M. Zampieri, M. Erdmann, I. d’Arcangelo, F. Bonisolli, G. Taddei, L. Nucci, F. Furlanetto, S. Ramey, J. Botha, G. Tichy, R. Trost, W. Fink, Miroslav & Peter Dvorsky, Viennese Boys Choir, and many others with whom he gave already concerts on 5 differents continents. He also accompanated different masterclasses and worked with famous singing-teachers as Martha Eggerth, Helena Łazarska, Jewgenij Nesterenko, Krassimira Stoyanova, Leo Nucci, Walter Berry, Hilde Zadek, as well as he gave masterclasses himself for singers and pianists all over Europe, for example at The Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznan, Metropolia University in Helsinki or University for Music in Tallinn, as well as in Teheran and Havanna.
From 1994 to 2008 he was the art director of the Choral Society „Young-Vienna“. He got big successes in many countries and big concert halls with this choir, up to concerts for the Royal Family in Thailand. He has been working with different choirs, nowadays he leads the choir of the singing department at University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.
Some years ago he founded a piano four-hands duo with the polish pianist Marcin Kozieł, with whom he had concerts at different places in Austria, Poland, Italy and Latvia.
Since 2011 he has been the musical director of he chamber music festival „Klassik im Advent“ in Austria, which takes place in a big hotel on the top of a mountain almost 2000m high.
His extensive repertoire, reaching from the classical song and oratorio via opera to operetta and musical, but also including chamber music and the Viennese art and Austrian folk music, makes him a much sought-after accompanist. Since he was the musical director of the Nestroy-Festival at Burg Liechtenstein with KSCH Elfriede Ott in 1993, he has been dealing with theater music and chansons more intensively.
Concerts, CD-recordings as choir director, pianist and organist, as well as appearances on TV and radio broadcasting in several continents are rounding off his activities as pianist and conductor.