1st violin

Wei-Ping Lin was born in Taiwan in 1973.

In her home country she started her career in the musical sports youth movement, winning several national violin competitions. At the age of 15 she moved to Vienna to continue her violin studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts. Her teachers there were Josef Sivo, Dora Schwarzenberg and Yair Kless. During her studies she received advice and encouragement from Klara Flieder, Philippe Hirschhorn, Yehudi Menuhin, Igor Ozim, Gerhard Schulz and Abram Shtern, among others.

Recently, Wei-Ping Lin has focused primarily on interpreting new music and the music of the late 20th century. She does this as a member of various ensembles and as a chamber musician, but also as a soloist, most recently for a recording of the complete works of Giacinto Scelsi for Mode Records (Scelsi Edition 10), and she also premiered the violin concerto written by Volkmar Klien and dedicated to her.

Wei-Ping Lin has been principal first violin of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 1998.

Michael Snyman was born in Rustenburg, South Africa in 1966.

From 1971 to 1988 he studied in South Africa and received a scholarship from Michigan, USA. Parallel to his university studies he attended master classes given by Dorothy DeLay (Juilliard School, New York). From 1988 he studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Prof. Gerhard Schulz.

Michael Snyman has been a member of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 1988, initially as first violin and since 2003 as principal first violin.

Geert Langelaar was born in Munich in 1962 and was raised in Graz, Stockholm and The Hague.

From 1981 to 1985 he studied violin with W. Libermann in Utrecht, before moving to Vienna to study with Günter Pichler.

He has often been engaged as a substitute at the State Opera and for the Vienna Philharmonic.

He first played with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1987, standing in for a colleague on maternity leave, and was subsequently given a permanent position in the first violin section.

He has been married to Catharina Stenström Langelaar, also a member of the Vienna RSO, since 1991.

Zhanna Li, born in Alma-Ata in Kazakhstan in 1984, began learning the violin aged six with Prof. A. Abatova at the Bajseitova Special Music School for gifted children in Alma-Ata. In 1994 she moved to the Rimsky-Korsakoff Special Music School for gifted children in St. Petersburg where she was taught by Prof. O. Shulpiakoff. From 2002 she studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow with Prof. Irina Botchkova. From 2007 to 2009 she did a postgraduate course in the form of master classes with Prof. Jens Ellermann at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. Since 2009 she has been studying at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Prof. Gerald Schubert.

She has won many awards, for instance at the international Wienjawski-Lipinski competition for young violinists in Lublin, Poland in 1996, third prize at the international competition for young violinists in Novobirsk, Russia in 1997, first prize at the international Jascha Heifetz competition in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2002, and second prize at the international violin competition in Uralsk, Kazakhstan in 2004.

In 2007 she was given the position of assistant concertmaster in the chamber orchestra Jahreszeiten in Moscow. From 2010 to 2011 she was leader of the second violins at the Landestheater Innsbruck and has been first violinist in the Vienna RSO since 2012.

Violaine Padilla was born in France in 1983. She received her first violin lessons at the age of seven.

She studied at the Conservatoire National de Région de Paris with Suzanne Gessner and at the University of Music Lübeck in Thomas Brandis’s class.

At the same time she gained experience of orchestral playing in the Orchestre Lamoureux and the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester working with conductors that included Claudio Abbado and Philipp Jordan.

She has been principal violin in the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2008.

Tudor Florian Păduraru was born in Iași, Romania, in 1993. He took his first violin lessons at the age of 6, and continued his musical education in his home town until 2015. During his school years he was rewarded many prizes at the most important national competitions, gaining the reputation of a rising romanian talent and earning the chance to play several concerts as a soloist with symphonic orchestras. His menthor was the violinist Șerban Mereuță, member of the Ad Libitum Quartet.

In 2015 he came to Vienna to study at the University for Music and Performing Arts with Prof. Elisabeth Kropfitsch. He finished his Magister studies with distinction at the class of the same professor in 2020.
He joined many masterclasses, learning from violinists such as Liviu Câșleanu (concertmaster of the Beethoven Orchestra in Bonn, Germany) and Igor Ozim (Professor at Mozarteum University Salzburg).

Between 2014 and 2016 he was a regular first violin member of the Romanian Youth Orchestra, playing also as a guest first violinist with the National Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands (NJO) in 2016. As an orchestra member he also performed in many countries such as Romania, Austria, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Moldavia, Germany, Italy, China and Russia.

Since 2020 Tudor Paduraru is a regular member of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Jue Hyang Park was born in Seoul in 1982 and began taking violin lessons at the age of four. Later she studied with Dora Schwarzberg at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, completing her diploma programme with distinction. She gained experience by Barbara Gorzynska.

At the age of only seven she won first prize in a competition run by the Korean daily newspaper Hankook-Ilbo.

As a soloist she performed with the Varna Symphony Orchestra and the State Symphony Orchestra of Bulgaria. She was guest concertmaster with the Gwangju Symphony Orchestra and the Austrian-Korean Philharmonic. She also plays as a chamber musician, performing regularly with string quartets and piano trios.

She has been principal violin with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2016.

Barbara Schenzel was born in Hall in Tyrol in 1977.

She received her first music lessons at the music school in Innsbruck at the age of four. Her university studies then took her to Salzburg, Vienna and London. In 2002 she passed her diploma examination at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

She has been principal violin with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2004.

 
Anaïs Tamisier was born in Avignon, France and received her first violin lessons at the age of 5. At the age of 13, she continued her violin studies at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris with Professor Suzanne Gessner and at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique de Lyon.

She received further important impulses during her postgraduate studies from renowned professors in Hamburg, Vienna, Berlin, among others.
Anaïs is the winner of numerous foundation prizes and competitions in Germany and France and has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in France, Germany, England, Norway, Austria, Japan, China and Canada.

In 2012, she founded the Darian Trio, which is a member of the prestigious European Chamber Music Academy, winner of the Pro Musicis competition in France and the Tait Foundation, UK. Anaïs is also co-founder of the International Violin Competition "Ginette Neveu" in Avignon. Likewise, she is active as a lecturer of Camp Styria.

In 2016, Anaïs completed an acting training in "les Ateliers du Sudden, cours Acquaviva " in Paris. Since 2018, she also works as a speaker and develops projects that combine music and acting. She also performs in musical theater projects for children.

Since 2008, Anaïs Tamisier has been a member of the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna as 1st violinist.

Monika Uhler was born in Bydgoszcz, Poland in 1973.

She received her first violin lessons at the age of six at the Arthur Rubinstein Music School in Bygdoszcz where her teachers were Prof. Stanislaw Hajzer and then Prof. Zenon Brzewski.

She studied with Prof. Miroslaw Lawrynowicz at the Warsaw Music Academy.

From 1994 she taught violin at the Warsaw Academy. She attended master classes given by Zakhar Bron, Rugierro Ricci, Thomas Brandis and Norbert Brainin.

From 1995 to 2002 she was a member of the Cordes string quartet and a substitute in the Munich Symphony Orchestra.

She was a prizewinner at the International Violin Competition in Geneva (semi-final), the International Wieniawski Violin Competition in Poznań (5th Prize) and received the funding award from R. Ricci’s master class in Berlin.

She has been principal violin with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2003.

Peter Uhler, born in Vienna in 1971, studied violin at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Prof. Michael Frischenschlager, Prof. Evgenia Tchougaeva and Prof. Jan Pospichal. He also obtained musical inspiration from the master classes he attended.

His work as a soloist and chamber musician has already taken him to Cyprus, Italy, Japan and Germany. In addition he has played in various chamber ensembles, television productions, CD recordings and theatre productions, for instance at the Burgtheater, Neues Wiener MusikTheater and Vienna Volkstheater.

He has been principal violin with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2000.