{"id":1017,"date":"2015-03-27T23:34:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T22:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradmusicworkshop.wordpress.com\/?page_id=1017"},"modified":"2024-03-24T14:35:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T13:35:17","slug":"antonia-dusa-wernig","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/boxwood.xyz\/tradmusicworkshop\/referenten\/antonia-dusa-wernig\/","title":{"rendered":"Antonia Du\u0161a Wernig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxwood.xyz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/antoniapipes41.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Antonia Dusa Wernig\" src=\"https:\/\/boxwood.xyz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/antoniapipes41.jpg?w=173&amp;h=243\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a>Antonia first started her musical journey aged 3 when her mother signed her up for pre-school music classes. At 5 she was big enough to hold a Cello and went on to winning a number of first places at the\u00a0<a title=\"Jugend Musiziert\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jugend-musiziert.org\/landeswettbewerbe\/nordrhein-westfalen.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8222;Jugend Musiziert NRW&#8220;<\/a>\u00a0young classical musicians competitions in Germany. \u00a0She developed an interest for Irish songs and music through her aunt Hedi who was living in London, and picked up a Tin Whistle at a<a title=\"The Dubliners\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedubliners.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0Dubliners<\/a>\u00a0concert aged 11. When she returned from her first trip to Ireland and the 1992\u00a0<a title=\"Ballyshannon\" href=\"http:\/\/ballyshannonfolkfestival.com\/2012\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ballyshannon Folk Festival<\/a>\u00a0the following year, she had fallen in love with the Uilleann Pipes. \u00a0She was lucky to find a local teacher and took classes with\u00a0<a title=\"Tom Kannmacher\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kannmachmusik.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tom Kannmacher<\/a>\u00a0for \u00a0a couple of years. \u00a0 Aged fifteen she competed in the 1995 \u00a0<a title=\"Fleadh Cheoil\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fleadhcheoil.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flead Cheoil na h\u00c9ireann<\/a> in Listowel as the only female and non-Irish participant in the category. Due to her thirty-odd years of experience with this rare and special instrument, Antonia is known as one of the driving forces of the Uilleann Pipes and Irish trad music in Austria.\u00a0 She was the first female to complete a Bachelor in Irish music at the <a title=\"Irish World Academy of Music and Dance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irishworldacademy.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Limerick<\/a>, chosing the Uilleann Pipes as her main instrument. After achieving First Class Honours in the BA, she did her Masters degree for Irish Traditional Music Performance in 2016 .<\/p>\n<p>Antonia is dedicated to support all learners of the Uilleann Pipes over here in Austria, so she invited Mickey Dunne and Batt O&#8217;Connor from Ireland in 2009 and organised the first &#8222;Trad Music Workshop&#8220;. From then on she has been a driving force behind the Workshop Weekend in Lockenhaus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/boxwood.xyz\/tradmusicworkshop\/kurse\/\">&gt; to the workshops<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antonia first started her musical journey aged 3 when her mother signed her up for pre-school music classes. At 5 she was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":65,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1017","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boxwood.xyz\/tradmusicworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boxwood.xyz\/tradmusicworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boxwood.xyz\/tradmusicworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boxwood.xyz\/tradmusicworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boxwood.xyz\/tradmusicworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/boxwood.xyz\/tradmusicworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2988,"href":"https:\/\/boxwood.xyz\/tradmusicworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1017\/revisions\/2988"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boxwood.xyz\/tradmusicworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boxwood.xyz\/tradmusicworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}