Ingrid Oberkanins
Percussion
Born in Upper Austria, lives in Vienna. Ingrid Oberkanins studied traditional percussion at the Bruckner Konservatorium in Linz and the Musikhochschule Vienna. For several years she played for the Jeunesse Orchester Linz under Franz Welser-Möst and the Junges Orchester Wien under Herwig Reiter. After graduating she increasingly turned to jazz and non-European rhythms, receiving tutoring by Dudu Tucci (Brasilien), José Eladio Amat (Cuba) and Famadou Konaté (West Africa). She appeared alongside established names such as the Vienna Art Orchestra, Wolfgang Puschnig and Linda Sharrock, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Fred Frith, Dave Samuels, David Friedman, Krzysztof Dobrek, Peter Herbert, Beni Schmid, Urszula Dudziak, Jay Clayton, Doretta Carter, Anna Lauvergnac, Sabina Hank and Celia Mara, and performed at international Jazz festivals in London, Paris, Montreux, Toronto, Montréal, Vancouver, The Hague, Moers, San Sebastian, Vienna and Saalfelden. Additionally, Ingrid Oberkanins is an active contributor in the fields of improvisation and New Music, collaborating with Christian Muthspiel (Klangwolke Linz, 2001) and Herwig Reiter, as well as working with the Burgtheater Vienna and the improvisational theater group “urtheater”. In 2004, she received the Hans Koller jazz prize for “Side(wo)man Of The Year”. Since the fall of 2004, she has been lecturing at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, the renowned university for music and the performing arts, in Vienna.