oboe

Thomas Höniger was born in Vienna in 1964 and studied at the Universities of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and Graz. He graduated with distinction and is a winner of the Karl Böhm Prize.

He has played in numerous solo and chamber music concerts in Austria and elsewhere and is a professor at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna.

He has been principal oboe with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 1989.

Richard Zottl was born in Neunkirchen in Lower Austria in 1970.

He began his studies with Prof. Manfred Kautzky and Klaus Lienbacher at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna before moving to the Oberschützen Institute of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz where he studied with Prof. Gerhard Turetschek.

He regularly plays both in Austria and elsewhere as a chamber musician and often receives invitations from orchestras such as the Vienna State Opera Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Volksoper and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra. In addition, he frequently performs at festivals such as the Styriate and the Carinthian Summer.

Richard Zottl has played first and third oboe with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 1996.

Gernot Jöbstl was born in Wolfsberg in Carinthia, Austria in 1982.

He studied with Prof. Klaus Lienbacher at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. As a student he attended the Herbert von Karajan Centrum in Vienna and the Tokyo Foundation on a scholarship.

Numerous chamber music concerts and concert tours have taken him all over Austria as well as to Japan, Argentina and Finland. He has played as a substitute with the Tonkünstler Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna State Opera Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic. From 2006 to 2009 he was principal oboe at the Vienna Volksoper.

Gernot Jöbstl has played second oboe and cor anglais with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2010.

Felix Hagn was born in Vienna in 1996 and received his first oboe lessons at the age of eight. In the course of his school education he attended the Musikgymnasium Wien Neustiftgasse. In addition, he attended the preparatory course at the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien from 2011 to 2015, where he completed his bachelor's degree with Thomas Höniger in 2020. He is currently deepening his musical education in the master's program with Ernest Rombout, also at the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien. In addition to his studies, he expanded his musical education at master classes with Christoph Hartmann and Günther Passin, among others.
In addition to his orchestral activities, Felix Hagn is passionately involved with the wind quintet "Pentaklang".
Since 2019 he is a permanent member of the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna as cor anglais and 2nd/4th oboe.