Composer, guitarist, choirmaster, poetess and painter, born in Wolfsberg (Carinthia).
Music lessons from the age of 7, first accordion, then cello at the music school Wolfsberg, later at the State Conservatory in Klagenfurt with music theory and harmony. Guitar studies at the Music-educational Realgymnasium in Wolfsberg. Cellist in the local school orchestra and student orchestra of the Music school Wolfsberg. In 1971 he absolved the High School. Education to the main teacher of mathematics, geometric drawing and music education at the Pedagogical Academy in Klagenfurt. Choirmaster education at several choral conducting courses of the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research under Prof. Erwin Ortner. Ilse Storfer spent 15 years in the Carinthian school service and was successful in this time as a choir director of several choirs and as a choirmaster speaker at seminars and summer courses. Since 1986 Consultant at the „Oberkärntner Singwochenende” in Rennweg am Katschberg.
Ilse Storfer has been involved with poetry since early youth and is popular as a lecturer and presenter. Enjoyment of creation and contact with as many people as possible in different groups or individually are the two cornerstones of the versatile activities of Ilse Storfer. The result is poems in written and dialect, many children's songs, choral songs and masses, small instrumental pieces and lyrics, which are set to music by different composers. Since 1992 she has been combining her poems with painting to “Bunte Gedichte” and also illustrates her books with drawings.
Since 1985 publication of her poems in several books and various brochures.
In 1989, he left school and moved to Vienna.
Ilse Storfer currently lives in Himberg near Vienna, works as a choirmaster for several choirs and
is a choirmaster in the Leitha-Sängerkreis of the Choir Association Lower Austria and works as a freelance artist in the fields of poetry, composition, choral conducting, painting and textile design.
Ilse Storfer is a member of the Rosegger Society and winner of the speedwell of the „Dichtersteingemeinschaft Zammelsberg”. In 2008 she received the 1st prize in the Magic Mountain Summer Competition on the Semmering.
In December 2012, she was appointed by Landeshauptman Dr. Erwin Pröll presents the Golden Medal of Honor for Services to the Province of Lower Austria. In 2013 she received the “Decoration of the market town Himberg in gold” and the medal of honor of the community Zwölfaxing.
By resolution of 18 September 2013, she was awarded the title „Professor” by the Federal President and handed over at the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research at a festive ceremony in December 2013.
Web: http://www.ilsestorfer.at (2020)