Performer
Born in 1990 and raised in Unken (Land Salzburg), Haitzmann’s childhood and youth were strongly influenced by folk music and customs. The village life, which included everything you could imagine (Trachtenverein, Schuhplatteln, Maypole festivals, etc.), was followed by a rural exodus. Residing in Vienna since 2009, he studied jazz violin at the Anton Bruckner Private University for Music, Drama and Dance in Linz with Andreas Schreiber and baroque violin with Michi Gaigg and Barbara Konrad respectively, as well as performance art with Carola Dertnig at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In 2017 she moved from Carola Dertnig to Ashley Hans Scheirl, contextual painting. Haitzmann is a founding member of the contemporary folk ensemble ALMA, the Vienna-based jazz collective Little Rosies’ Kindergarten and the improvisation quartet s q u a m a t a .
He has given concerts/performed at venues including the Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus Vienna, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, “Centre National de la Danse” Paris, Kaaitheater Brussels, Gessnerallee Zurich, the Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele and the Erl Festival. His compositional work includes solos, duets, ensemble music as well as orchestral pieces. In 2017 Haitzmann made his debut with the ensemble ALMA and the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein.
