The lyrical tenor Markus Miesenberger received his education as a singer in Vienna with KS Robert Holl, KS Artur Korn and Sebastian Vittucci as well as in the fields violin and baroque viola with Ernst Kovacic and Michi Gaigg in Salzburg, Linz and Vienna.
Appearances as a concert and lied singer, in operas and as a musician led the artist through Austria, to important European music centres in Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Switzerland, to Israel, to Mexico and to many more. Thus, it was and is beside regular appearances at the Viennese music association and at the Viennese concert hall to guest with numerous festivals (Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes Mexico City, Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, MA Festival Brugge, Salzburger Festspiele, Styriarte, Carinthischer Sommer, Schubertiaden Schwarzenberg and Dürnstein, Brucknerfest Linz, Handel Festival Halle, Internationales Musikfest Hamburg, Musica antiqua of the bavarian broadcast Nürnberg, National forum of music Wroclaw, Settimana Musica Sacra di Monreale, Misteria Paschalia Krakow). He sings under the baton of famous conductors like Christian Thielemann, Pierre Andre Valade, Ralf Weikert, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Jeffrey Kahane, Gunar Letzbor, Michi Gaigg and Rubén Dubrovsky with Staatskapelle Dresden, Vienna and Hamburg Symphonic Orchestra, Ars Antiqua Austria, L’Orfeo Baroque Orchestra, Bach Consort Vienna, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra and Slovac Philharmonic Orchestra. There is also a strong artistic connection in the field of lied to his former teacher Robert Holl and the pianists David Lutz und Sir András Schiff.
On the opera stage Markus Miesenberger is to be experienced above all in roles of the Mozart’s and Haydn’s field, with baroque opera, with opera of the 20th century and with contemporary music. Engagements led him to the Neue Oper Wien, to the Theater an der Wien, to the Landestheater Linz, to the municipal theatre Bolzano and to the Tirol festival. He sang Ferrando in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte at Opernfestspiele Bad Hersfeld, 2018 and 2019 Jack O’Brian in Kurt Weills Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny at Laeiszhalle Hamburg and Balthasar Zorn in Richard Wagners Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg with Staatskapelle Dresden under the baton of Christian Thielemann at Osterfestspiele Salzburg, also released on CD, and 2020 at Semperoper Dresden.
In 2011 he won the Franz Joseph Aumann Prize for new discoveries and innovative interpretation of baroque music at the international H.I.F. Biber competition.
Numerous CD productions and radio broadcasts also form a central focus of his artistic career, currently Arias for Silvio Garghetti with Neue Wiener Hofkapelle, Kriegsgeschichten and Liebesabenteuer with music from G.D. Speer with Ars Antiqua Austria (PANCLASSICS) and Psalms for Sacri Concentus 1681 (Challenge Classics).

Guitarist Christian Haimel's expressive and versatile interpretations – ranging from renaissance to contemporary music – have earned lots of praise, even in young years.“I have seen very few young musicians who have impressed me as much as Christian. He is already a beautiful guitar player and I am sure he has a brilliant future”, internationally renowned Scottish guitarist David Russell praised Christian Haimel at his master class 2006. Christian's first CD, on which he plays works by Mauro Giuliani, Manuel Maria Ponce, William Walton and a first recording of a work by Jan Truhlar, was released in December 2007. His debut album was well received in Austria and abroad, also winning the Pasticcio Prize, awarded by Oe1, the Austrian national broadcaster's classical music radio station. Following Christian Haimel's 2001 concert at the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Austrian daily ‘Die Presse’ wrote: “Heaven knows it does not happen every day that a guitarist is responsible for a profound silence among the audience of a Viennese concert hall. The 19-year-old Christian Haimel has succeeded in that ... he conjures up subtly differentiated colors and moods ... he makes his instrument sing.” Christian's career path manifested itself early. After beginning to learn how to play guitar with Josef Waidhofer at the age of six he studied with Marianne Waidhofer at the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz, from which he graduated with honours in 2007. In 2014 he completed the “Master in Classical Guitar Performance” with “Summa cum Laude" in Alicante, Spain.He rounded off his musical education by studies of classical voice training which highly complements his guitar playing by knowledge of interpretation and tone production. During his studies Christian Haimel attended master classes by internationally renowned guitarists such as David Russell, Manuel Barrueco, Leo Brouwer and Abel Carlevaro. Christian won first national and international acclaim at competitions in Austria's Vienna, Salzburg, Linz and Rust, Kutna Hora (Czech Republic), Weimar (Germany), the Greek island of Crete, in Kiev (Ukraine) and Bath (UK), among others.Christian performed at concerts – both as a soloist and as chamber musician – at international festivals in Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic, the United States, Chile, South Korea and Russia.He also teaches guitar at the municipal music school in Linz in his home province Upper Austria. This season, 2012/13 he taught in substitution a classical guitar class at Anton Bruckner Private University Linz.