Duo Artdeco Wien
Biography Duo Artdeco Wien
Setareh Najfar-Nahvi
started her violin studies at the Tehran Conservatory. From 1984 onwards she continued her concert violin studies at the Music University of Vienna in the class of Prof. Michael Schnitzler. From 1987 to 1989 she was awarded a scholarship by the Austrian Ministry of Culture.
She participated in many master classes, e.g. those of Igor Oistrach. Her work as a soloist and her chamber music activities led her to travel to many countries like Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland and France.
This was followed by cooperations and premières of various works of componists like Karlheinz Essl, Reza Najfar, Martin Licht- fuss and Norbert Zehm. She was a long- time member of the Tonkünstler Chamber Orchestra, the Wiener Kammeroper, the 1st Women’s Chamber Orchestra in Austria and the »Ensemble 86« for contemporary music. She has worked with acknowledged conductors such as Claudio Abbado and Sir Neville Mariner.
At the time she mainly dedicates her time to the performance of chamber music with pianist Theresia Schumacher, with a focus on rarely performed literature for violin and piano. She also is a co-founder of the Ensemble Triophonus Viennensis. The CD »Female Composers, Pieces for Violin and Piano« was published in July 2016 and received positive feedback both from the media and the audience. There have been several con- certs with this CD’s programme in different European cities, including Milan, Saarlouis, Hombourg-Haut and Freiburg im Breisgau. Since the winter semester of 2013 she has 13 been teaching at the Prayner Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Arts in Vienna. Furthermore, she is giving master classes in various cities in Europe and Asia.
In May 2017 Setareh Najfar-Nahvi and Theresia Schumacher gave a concert for the Institute Théodore Gouvy in Hombourg-Haut under the name »Duo Artdeco Wien« with works by Théodore Gouvy and an excerpt of her CD »Female Composers, Pieces for Violin and Piano«. Setareh Najfar-Nahvi plays on a Celeste Farotto violin from the year 1939.
Theresia Schumacher
started her musical qualification at the age of four with her father and later with Ms. Inge Rosar. She continued her studies at the conservatory of Saarbrücken (Germany). Her teachers were Prof. Walter Blankenheim and Prof. Bernd Glemser and she finished her degree in 1993. During her academic training she was employed by different academies of music as a piano teacher and for piano accompaniment of a eurhythmy class. Directly after her degree she worked at the conservatory in Obernburg (Germany). Following this first period she carried on her career in the cities of Linz (Austria) and Düsseldorf (Germany). New impulses came through the formation in Music therapy at the Fritz Perls Institut in Hückeswagen (Germany) under the lead of Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. Hilarion Petzold. In different public and private institutions she worked with vegetative patients as well as with autistic children. With her family she then moved to Basel (Switzerland), and since 2009 she lives and works in Vienna (Austria) as a partner in chamber music, for piano 15 accompaniment and as piano teacher.
Presently she is devoting herself intensely to the team play with Setareh Najfar, with whom she works specifically on seldom performed duo literature. As a founding member of the ensemble Triophonus Viennensis with Reza Najfar, flute, and Setareh Najfar, violin, she is also giving concerts with care- fully selected concert programs, for rarely performed instrumentation flute, violin and harpsichord or piano.
