Galina Mauracher

Galina Mauracher, born as Galina Viktorovna Krutikova in 1960 in Leningrad, Russia. She is known professionally as Gal Rasché and is a Russian-Austrian conductor, music teacher and pianist. She is daughter of Viktor Krutikov (1930-1996), the longtime head of the Krasny Bor transmitter and Honored Communications Technician of the R.S.F.S.R. and Valentina Krutikova (1930-2020). Galina studied conducting and music by Anatoli Ivanov and Tatiana Khitrova at the world-famous N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in Saint Petersburg. After completing her studies, she worked in Russia since 1986 at N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory, various music schools and universities as well as in management of St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Saint Petersburg Camerata. After numerous engagements in Russia as a conductor, pianist and teacher for various music disciplines, Galina came to Vienna to work as a journalist for Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF). For its radio station "OE1" she wrote and co-produced radio documentaries and magazine articles about classical music, music instruments and composers. From 1997-2020 she held permanent professorship for piano at the Prayner Conservatory in Vienna and since 2001 she has been teaching as a guest professor for piano, history and theory of music at the Conservatory Vienna Private University and various Viennese municipal music schools. As a conductor, she has performed works by Mozart, Schubert, Haydn and Tchaikovsky in concerts with the Viennarmonica Orchestra and the Vienna Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra in the Konzerthaus and in the Great Hall of the Musikverein. In 1996 she wrote the scenario for the ballet based on Anatoly Ivanov's transcription of the "Children's Album" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky for percussion ensemble for which she won an award at the television reportage competition of international festival "Interfer'99" in Yugoslavia. Galina was a prizewinner of the international artist competition "Duc de Richelieu" in the category author's book and musical original composition and interpretation in 2015 and 2018. She is a member of the RAO (Russian Authors' Society). In 2000 she was granted Austrian citizenship for exceptional achievements. She has her residence in Vienna and since 1997 is married to Nikola Mauracher, an Austrian business man.