Petra Sittig
Episodes
Jo Roets - Clay artist - The fine art of Air-drying Clay
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Clay Artist, Jo Roets: "Though I didn't know, it was a gamble to see whether the fine art industry would accept air drying clay as a medium, it just w...
Nehemiah Kish: The importance of performing classical ballets and the master works of Nureyev.
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nehemiah Kish, Artistic director and Principal dancer of the Royal ballet: "I personally believe that it's really important to keep that tradition and...
Raul Midon - Jazz and Soul, singer, song writer. Writing songs from the perspective of being blind
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Soul Jazz singer and songwriter, Raul Midon: " It has to be something that people can grab on to, and also a twist in writing from a perspective. So I...
Freddie Rutz - Performer, magician. With the Environmental Magician show, I want this really to fly.
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Freddie Rutz, Performer, Environmental Magician: "I will find out how many times did I build things, even show them, and how far it actually did fly. ...
Anastasiia Karpenko - Opera singer/Painter: When I'm on stage, I'm part of the story.
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anastasiia Karpenko, Opera singer and Artist- "Because when you're on stage, most of the time the opera is written so good, and you have time to get u...
Captain Annabel Vundla - The honour of being one of President Nelson Mandela's Pilots
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Captain Annabel Vundla - Airline Pilot: "... I then went on to fly the Falcon 15, which is a 3 engine Turbine, beautiful aircraft....Jet, and that's w...
Otto Plesner - Artistic Director. The easiest point of inspiration for me is always the music.
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Artistic Director, Otto Plesner: "The easiest point of inspiration for me to make a show is always the music. I can just close my eyes and it just sta...
Jon Clark - Pilot: I would love to share my passion for aviation with others
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Clark - Pilot: "They're just such amazing machines and to think they were built around 80 years ago. They are still so fast, they're all inspiring...
Christoph Seidl - Operatic Bass. The voice is facing constant changes.
07 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Christoph Seidl, Operatic Bass: "The voice is facing constant changes and also the roles do. If you leave roles for a couple months or years, they kin...
Charlie Kimbell - Pilot. Every little desicion I've made has ultemately led to achieving my goal.
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie Kimbell - Pilot: "...because it's taken 25 years of effort and having that as a goal in sight throughout my career, that maybe every little de...
Milène J Fernández -Writer, Painter: I want to express the beauty that I experience and that I see
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Milène J Fernández - Writer, Painter, editor: "As you mature, I think gradually you become a little more selfless and want to give more to the worl...
David and Lisa Dault- Dault Pottery: The only way to get there is TIME."
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
David and Lisa Dault: "There's a lot of preasure on artists to have a voice. I don't know if it's just in the pottery world but I imagine it's all art...
Tea Kovše -Puppeteer: Sometimes on the way of creating a puppet, something wonderful happens.
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Puppeteer, Tea Kovše: "I first do the story. I know the visual concept of where I want to go. I often work in groups so I rarely work alone. Then I s...
Maria Lohn - Actress, Director . My enthusiasm is what leads me in all the artistic projects I do.
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Actress and Director, Maria Lohn: "Whenever I start an artistic project, whatever it may be, and this is also the quintessence of why I became an arti...
Jan Prax - Saxophonist. Always trying to develop my own sound and my own way of playing.
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jan Prax, Saxophonist: "So I'm always paying credit to these masters because I'm so influenced by them and that's where I'm coming from. But on the ot...
Brent Clark - Pilot and Photographer. My love for aviation helped me through discouraging times.
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Brent Clark, Pilot and Photographer: "You've got to really love it and I think that helped motivate me is that I really loved it and wanted to do it. ...
Christopher Schlesinger - Sculptor. Showing human fragility is part of the expression of each piece.
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher Schlesinger, Carving artist and sculptor: That's my thinking, where I say it's a living material and the sculpting I do out of them are hu...
Dominic Ferris - Pianist, Steinway Artist (Part 2) - It's about the performance.
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Part 2: Dominic Ferris - Pianist, Producer and Steinway Artist: "But I think it also goes back to trust in yourself. I think you have to trust yoursel...
Dominic Ferris - Pianist. (Part 1) The theme that runs through everything I do is 'Story telling'
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Part 1: Dominic Ferris, one of the UK's leading pianists, Steinway artist and Producer: "The theme that runs through everything I do is Story telling....
Beatrice Bolis - Illustrator. Expressing myself through illustrations
11 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Beatrice Bolis - Illustrator: When you do therapy, you do a lot of associations and then you can connect all those parts. For me, drawing is the same ...
Francois van Coke - Fokofpolisiekar. Our songs are honest and a commentary about the world around us
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Francois van Coke, lead singer of the South African band "Fokofpolisiekar": We wanted to make music that reflects our taste and we were into songs tha...
Judith Boyd - Aging with hats
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
80 year young Judith Boyd: We loose our value and there's a defiant part of me that ... I first need to value myself and then go from there. Value oth...
David Wagner - Film Director of the outstanding, award winning Austrian film: EISMAYER
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
David Wagner - Film Director of the award wining film, Eismayer: "I always have this picture in my head that this idea, the potential of Eismayer bein...
Garreth Robertson - Pianist - I'm always advocating collaborative playing for musicians.
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Garreth Robertson, Pianist: "I'm always advocating for collaborative playing and when I look back at my musical journey, I think I learnt the most for...
Marc Parrett - The object project - It's not just an object. It's really a living thing.
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Marc Parret, Artistic Director of the Object project: "It could do anything in a way and that's what I like in puppeteering. In a sense it is a living...
Hunter Kennedy - Die Heuwels fantasties - Our music almost become pictures of our existence.
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hunter Kennedy, Die Heuwels Fantasties: "I think we're trying to document our existence, basically. If I listen back to the albums now, I can remember...
John Ntsepe - Pianist. All my dreams have been accompanied by music
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pianist, John Ntsepe: "Yes, I do look back. I mean, there have been challenges along the way. The thing is, music has always been in me. All my dreams...
Martin White - Artist. The whole point of art is to make something your own
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Martin White, Artist: "The whole point of art is to make something your own. I want to capture the feeling of the ballet, I don't want to capture the ...
Gerhard Liebmann - Eismayer. One of the reasons I do this job, the letting go and be part of a story
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Award winning Austrian Actor, Gerhard Liebmann is talking about his role as Eismayer in the outstanding Film "Eismayer": "I always thought, to know th...
David Griessel Artist - I reverted back to the more intuitive way of drawing my ideas of fantasy.
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
David Griessel - Artist: "My lecturers were valuable. I think in everyone's journey you have to get mentors and learn from them, but there should be a...
Ekaterina Shelehova - Opera Singer. Earth Melodies, a story of the elements coming together.
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Opera Singer and composer, Ekaterina Shelehova: "I wanted to go back to my roots and try to incorporate that style with the operatic style that I had ...
Gabriela Galarza De Konrath -GadeKo Studio - I like the fact that my window art is ephemeral.
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Gabriela Galarza De Konrath, GadeKo Studio: "...and that was the thought about the window painting, that it is really ephemeral, that afterwards you h...
Mike Blyth - Sling Aircraft. We started from scratch and as time went on, the aircraft took shape
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Director of Sling Aircraft, Mike Blyth: "I studied each aircraft, that I thought was a good aircraft, in detail; the sizing, the shape, the look of it...
Tomm Moore - There's a journey within the studio towards something that can only be made by hand.
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tomm Moore, Illustrator, animator and co-founder of Cartoon Saloon: "I feel there's a journey within the studio towards something that could only be m...
Bernie Diehl - Pilot. The importance of building up flying skills and how it keeps me motivated
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Airline Pilot, Bernie Diehl: "Now we're talking about how I keep my motivation high, it's because I'm looking for jobs aside from the airline business...
Laura Valkovsky Pianist - My deep wish is to have a positive influence on other people.
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Valkovsky, Pianist: "Yes I always support these ideas and I think this orchestra also has a very important mission. With these kinds of actions ...
Ekaterina Kardakova - Creative Tech Lab. We need to develop emotional intelligence from a young age.
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ekaterina Kardakova, singer, voice and public speaking coach and founder of Creative Tech Lab: "We really need to develop emotional intelligence becau...
Francesco Parrino - Pianist. There is a bigger vision. There is a whole path.
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pianist, Francesco Parrino : "Attending the conservatoire at this age, and I'm 29, makes me look at things differently because I am older, and it's no...
Antonis Sousamoglou -Violinist, producer. The recording of MOSAICO Mediterraneo qith Maria Kostraki
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Antonis Sousamoglou is talking about the production of the recording "Mosaico Mediterraneo" with soprano Maria Kostraki: "It was liberating because of...
Thomas Erlank - Tenor. It's a change of what I do, but it doesn't change who I am.
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Erlank, Tenor: "...but you are not what you do, and this is something that helped me also with the process of deciding that, going home is not ...
Alison Duddle - Puppeteer. Puppet theatre has to do with a feeling of empathy.
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alison Duddle, puppeteer: "But there's something really interesting about puppet theatre that's very different to conventional theatre in that, I feel...
Barbara Melck - Winemaker, Reyneke wines - Terroir in the most honest way through biodynamic farming
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Winemaker at Reyneke wines, Barbara Melck: "In winemaking our biggest goal is, because we sit with this amazing terroir, and the biggest goal of a win...
Michael Sheppard - Pianist: I like to presume no limitation both in myself and in others
07 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Sheppard - Pianist, conductor, composer: I'm learning new things all the time about how to put down the key but it's not so much about how to ...
Stephen Anderson, Animation Director - There are no rules and no formular for making Animation films
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Animation Director, Stephen Anderson: "...but leaving it open enough for people to experiment, to play, to come up with things that you'd never imagin...
David K. Israel - Composer - I'm mostly interested in dance because I love the Theatre.
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
David K Israel - Composer, Author, Screenwriter, Director: "...and so Stravinsky harmonised it for 4 voices and gives that manuscript back to Mr Balan...
Anita Young MBE - Ballet teacher. I take every opportunity that comes my way.
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ballet teacher, Anita Young MBE: "I do take every opportunity that comes my way, even if I get nervous and think: Can I really do it? And then I think...
Cristian Spătaru - Conductor - I would feel incomplete if I couldn't do the music I love.
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cristian Spătaru - , Pianist, Composer: "I had the opportunity to work with some choirs on some beautiful works that creates a connection which is ve...