Agnes Schnabl

Agnes Schnabl from Austria completed her studies of conducting and choral conducting pedagogy at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. There, she studied under Johannes Prinz. Prior to that, she received conducting lessons at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna under Alois Glaßner as part of her study of music pedagogy. She completed a postgraduate study in choral conducting at the University Mozarteum Salzburg with Jörn Hinnerk Andresen.
Since 2021, Agnes is teaching at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She is working as a Jurymember at choral competitions and as instructor at various choral and conducting courses all around Austria. She is the conductor of the Austrian Youth Choir, the Tyrolean Youth Choir, coro siamo (Vienna), ensemble kanti (Graz) and has repeatedly worked with the Wiener Singverein.
From 2021 to 2023 Agnes has been a scholarship holder of the Dirigentenforum/German Music Council. As part of this program, she has worked with Florian Helgath, Yuval Weinberg, Bernhard Schmidt and conducted the MDR Radio Choir, the SWR Vokalensemble, the Philharmonic Choir Berlin and Canta Nova Saar. In 2022, she assisted Justin Doyle at the project Klangkomsos Schütz 22, which was a cooperation of four German youth choirs and the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin. In 2018, she was a guest conductor for vocalconsort initium in Tokyo.
As part of her university education, she has worked with the Slovenian Philharmonic Choir, the Saxon State Opera Chorus Dresden, the Stadttheaterchor Klagenfurt, the Orchestra for New Music and the Filmmusic Orchestra of the Music University Graz, the University Orchestra of the Mozarteum Salzburg and has conducted in opera productions. Agnes was an assistant teacher for the conducting classes at the Music Pedagogy department at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.
Agnes took part in master classes with Florian Helgath, Zürcher Singakademie, Vokalensemble consonus, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Steven Sametz, Johann Van der Sandt, Vokalforum Graz, Robert Sund, Morten Schuldt-Jensen, Josep Vila i Casanas, Maria Goundorina, Erwin Ortner and Thomas Caplin.
As a singer, she was a member of the two vocal trios Lerchenschnabl and 3 Schnablinge. They were performing in Austria as well as neighboring countries and have won prizes at the Alpine Folkmusic Competition in Innsbruck, Prima la Musica, and at the Austrian Landes- and Bundesjugendsingen. Several albums were released throughout 2011 to 2018.
Besides classical music, Agnes is very passionate about folk music. Due to her ancestry, she feels particularly connected to Carinthian-Slovene folk songs.