Johanna Unterpertinger is a recorder player who occupies herself with 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 historical wind instruments/recorder (class Lea Sobbe/Christine Gnigler) and the Bachelor's programme of Musicology at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, where she previously completed the study programmes BA Historical Wind Instruments/Recorder and BA Music Education (specializing in improvisation) with distinction. 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 Trio Tenso, duo nadima and Ensemble UPS!. Trio Tenso aims to showcase the diversity of the recorder and its repertoire in its concerts, duo nadima focuses primarily on contemporary music; Ensemble UPS! explores connections between Early Music and other art forms. 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 Germany, Italy, Czechia, France and Spain 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 narratives of the climate crisis.