Barbara Gisler-Haase

Performing on Sankyo Flutes

Barbara Gisler-Haase was born and raised in Vienna. She studied the flute at the former Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst (Academy of Music and Performing Arts, now renamed University of Music and Performing Arts). Since 1974, she has held a teaching position at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, later renamed University of Music and Performing Arts. Since 1999, she has been professor of flute at the Leonard Bernstein Institute for Wind Instruments and Percussion Instruments at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. She became the Head of the Institute in 2002.

In 1983, she founded the ensemble “Vienna Flautists”, a group of 8 lady flutists playing flutes from the contrabass to the piccolo. In 1997, she founded the Jubal Trio Vienna for flute, cello, and piano. She has given concerts in Europe, Asia and America, and she has recorded eight CDs for the labels Orfeo and Discover.

Barbara Gisler-Haase has worked on research projects in the field of the improvement of flutes assigned by the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research. From 2009 to 2010, together with the flute maker Werner Tomasi, she developed flutes for children from the age of 5 onwards, according to the “wave line” principle.

Every year, Barbara Gisler-Haase teaches master classes for “Allegro vivo”, the “Vienna Music Seminar”, the “Vienna Master Classes”, as well as seminars on didactics. She has been invited regularly to hold master classes in many different countries.