Margot Oitzinger
Margot Oitzinger was born in Graz, Austria, and started her musical education at the Johann- Joseph-Fux Conservatory in Graz as a flautist. Subsequently she studied singing at the University of Art in Graz with Annemarie Zeller, Rosemarie Schmied and Tom Sol. During her time in Graz she spent time in Lugano, Switzerland, studying with Luisa Castellani.
Margot has also participated in many renaissance and baroque courses with Jill Feldman, Emma Kirkby and Wolf-Matthias Friedrich. She was second prizewinner of the International Johann-Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig in 2008, and with the ensemble vezzoso she won the special ensemble prize at the Johann Heinrich Schmelzer-Wettbewerb Competition in Melk. In 2006, she won second prize in the international baroque singing competition in Chimay (Belgium).
As a soloist she has worked with ensembles such as the Concerto Copenhagen, L’Orfeo Barockorchester, the Wiener Akademie, Le Concert Lorrain, the Bach Consort, the Capella Savaria, the Concerto Tivoli and the Capella Leopoldina. Margot’s concert repertoire includes the alto roles in numerous oratorios and cantatas, a wide range of contemporary music, Lieder and chansons.
Her operatic roles include Bastien in Mozart’s Bastien und Basteinne; Tangia in Gluck’s Le Cinesi; Apollo in Fux`s Dafne in Lauro, Lisetta in Haydn’s Il mondo della luna, Matilda in Händel’s Ottone and Argene in Vivaldi’s l’Olimpiade.
Her opera and concert engagements have included appearances at international festivals such as the Handel Festival in Halle, the Styriarte, Psalm, Steirische Herbst, Bad Hersfelder Bach-Tage and Jeunesse festivals. Her performing schedule has taken her to Germany, Italy Switzerland, France, England, Bulgaria, South Africa, Singapore and the Phillipines.
