Karin Leitner Concert 2024 takes place at The Glens Centre

Austrian musician Karin Leitner brings her 2024 tour to Monorhamilton at The Glens Centre on February 09 at 8pm.

Although born in Austria, she has an Irish soul and has toured Ireland with many ensembles throughout the years.  

Karin has lived in a cottage on the Birr Castle Estate, where she heard a lot of music inside. She composed many Celtic Irish pieces and used traditional Irish instruments.

In this programme, she will tell stories of her travelling life as a musician and about her compositions. The programme will also contain famous film music tunes.

She has recorded with huge orchestras in Bulgaria and Slovakia to make her backing tracks, which she performs live on flute and Irish tin whistle.

Karin has composed four new inspirations for flute, harp and orchestra, performing on a wooden flute, piccolo, Irish tin whistle and Native American flute. She also uses Celtic and tribal instruments.

She is a tutor at the Sandor Vegh Symposium for woodwinds and chamber music workshops in Ireland, Northern Ireland, China, Iran and South Africa. 

Karin performed solo concerts with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Vienna Mozart Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra Hradec Kralove, and many others.

The Austrian musician is the Artistic Director of the Vienna Film Orchestra, played ‘Titanic’ at Vienna Filmball 2010 and was awarded a Competition Prize by the City of Vienna in 2010. and was an Artist and Composer in Residence in Tehran, Ireland, in 2012.

She received a United Nations Award for performance in Nepal during the Civil War and is also a member of the Jury of the Prima La Musica Flute Competition, Klagenfurt.

Come to hear the enchanting stories and be transported by the music into happy realms. Tickets are €17/15 and available at https://glenscentre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873656105.