Barbara Hornung
Barbara Hornung is an Australian violist from a large musical family. She was a member of the Australian Youth Orchestra and received her Bachelor of Music (Hons) degree from the Elder Conservatorium, Adelaide University in 1984.
Barbara also studied in the Netherlands at the Royal Hague Conservatory. Numerous orchestras in Australia and overseas have employed Barbara as a freelance violist and she is a dedicated teacher of violin and viola. Barbara is actively involved in performing and recording works by Australian composers and has recently enriched her artistic life by taking painting lessons at the Victorian Artists Society.
“A highly expressive artist who explores vivid tonal colors on the viola, Barbara Hornung has performed in many countries”
Barbara Hornung is featured on the following titles
Ernest Bloch: Viola and Piano
Violist Barbara Hornung and pianist Danaë Killian have long made the viola and piano works of Swiss-American composer Ernest Bloch (1880–1959) the heart of their duo, spanning Jewish-themed chamber music, solo viola and piano miniatures for children.
Barbara Hornung also appears on
Solos Duos Trios
Chamber music by Haydn Reeder for soloists and small ensembles, composed between 1998 and 2023. Piano, strings, flute and harp in solos, duos and trios, nearly all recorded here for the first time.
Becoming
Becoming is Johanna Selleck’s hour-long song cycle for soprano, countertenor, bass, shakuhachi and string quartet, setting haiku and renga across French, English and Tibetan.