Johanna Unterpertinger is a recorder player who occupies herself with Early Music and Historical Performance Practice  as well as with contemporary improvisation and how acoustic stimuli can resonate with other art forms.

She is studying in the Master's programme of Recorder (Interpretation) at the CNSMD Lyon (Class: Tiago Simas Freire) as well as in the Master's programme of Historical Bassoons at the HEM Geneva (Class: Giulia Genini). Before, she completed the study programmes BA Historical Wind Instruments/Recorder (Class: Lea Sobbe/Christine Gnigler) and BA Music Education (specializing in improvisation) with distinction at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. She received further musical inspiration from Conrad Steinmann, Susanna Borsch, Andreas Böhlen, Sheng-Fang Chiu, Giovanni Battista Graziadio and others. Erasmus+ stays have taken her to Lyon (2023 - BIP European Renaissance Music Tour, 2024 - class Tiago Simas Freire), Vilnius (2024 - Early Music Week) and Barcelona (2025 - class Pedro Memelsdorff).

Johanna is musically active in her ensembles Ensemble UPS!, La Trifora and Trio Tenso. Ensemble UPS! explores connections between Early Music and other art forms, La Trifora focuses on medieval music and Trio Tenso aims to showcase the diversity of the recorder and its repertoire in its concerts. Since 2023, Johanna has regularly played the bassoon in larger ensembles such as the KUG Baroque Orchestra, muk.barockorchester, novantik Austria, Concilium Musicum Wien, Orchester 1756 or Camerata Ars Summa. Projects have taken her to various European countries such as Austria, Germany, Italy, Czechia, France, Spain, Lithuania and Great Britain as well as to Israel.

In 2022, Johanna founded the artist collective et art together with three other art students. et art. deals with the climate crisis in Austria and conveys the content of scientific studies on different topics through audiovisual and literary translations in order to create new, more accessible narratives of the climate crisis.