Clara Maria Bauer

29, Austria

In 2022, Clara Maria Bauer (Wagsteiner) was selected for the Akademie Musiktheater heute of the Deutsche Bank Stiftung and received the Startstipendium (scholarship) for Music and Performing Arts by the Federal Ministry of Arts and Culture for 2022/23. Also in the 2022/23 season, she conducted her first studio recording with orchestral music by Erich Zeisl and Eric Ziegelbauer.

In 2021, she put a long-held dream into action: to found a virtuoso chamber orchestra which shares new concert settings and programs with a focus on 20th and 21st century music with its audience: the Alma Mahler Philharmonie. In 2019 she won the position of conducting fellow of the Bergische Symphoniker in Wuppertal, Germany.

Clara was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1993. Trained as a conductor by Mark Stringer, she is used to conducting a wide repertoire ranging from operas to symphonic music, from renaissance to contemporary. Clara completed her studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in 2020, graduating with honours. She plays the flute, the piano, the violoncello and the saxophone.

Instagram: @clara_maria_bauer