trombone

Sascha Hois, born in Voitsberg, Austria in 1986, began learning the trombone with Siegfried Hoefler at Voitsberg music school. From 2001 to 2004 he received instruction from Prof. Josef Steinacher at the Johann-Josef Fux Conservatory in Graz, before going on to do a foundation course with Prof. Thomas Eibinger at Graz University of the Arts. From 2005 to 2013 he took a master’s degree with Prof. Eibinger at the same University. He also attended master classes given by Ian Leslie Bousfield, Olaf Krumpfer, Dany Bonvin, Joseph Alessi and Stefan Schulz.

He has played as a substitute with the Tonkünstler Orchestra, the Grazer Philharmonisches Orchester, the Marburg Philharmonic Orchestra and the orchestras of the Vienna Volksoper and the Vienna State Opera. He was principal trombone with the Netherlands Orchestra Academy (NJO), the Central European Youth Orchestra (CEYO) and the Franz Lehár-Orchester Bad Ischl.

He plays in numerous ensembles including the Brass Band Oberösterreich, the ensembles “die reihe”, The Great 8, Kontrapunkte, Zugfett, the Grazer Salonorchester and the Austrian Brass Band.
He has also appeared as a soloist with various orchestras and ensembles.

In 2015 he was chosen as principal trombone in the Brass Band of the Year.

From 2011 to 2013 Sascha Hois taught at the Franz Schober mobile private music school in southern Styria and at “Camp Styria”. Today he regularly takes classes for brass bands and gives private lessons, for instance to prepare students for auditions.

He has been principal trombone with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2013.

Born in 1999 and raised in Hallwang (Salzburg), the trombonist studied with Prof. Josef Kürner at the Anton-Bruckner-Private-University in Linz.
During his studies, he substituted in various orchestras, which prepared him for his current position in the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra as tenor and bass trombonist.

He finds his musical balance to classical music in the field of jazz music.
Project-oriented participation in ensembles and bands of various styles round off his musical profile. In addition to his musical activities, Ulrich Gruchmann pursues his photographic interests as an art- and service- photographer.

Simon Wildauer was born in Schwaz in Tyrol in 1992 and grew up in the Zillertal.

At the age of seven he was given his first lessons in the baritone by his father Roland Wildauer. Later he took lessons in the baritone and trombone at the Zillertal regional music school. In his youth he scored numerous successes at both regional and national level in competitions such as “Prima la Musica” and “Spiel in kleinen Gruppen”.

From 2006 he attended the music high school in Innsbruck and studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, taking the foundation course in the trombone held by Norbert Salvenmoser. Since 2009 Simon Wildauer has been studying trombone at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Dietmar Küblböck and Mark Gaal. He attended master classes given by Dany Bonvin, Carsten Svanberg, Otmar Gaiswinkler, Uwe Füssl, Weston Sprott and Leonhard Paul, among others.

He has played as a substitute with the Tiroler Symphonieorchester, the Vienna Volksoper, the Vienna State Opera, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic. He attended numerous orchestra courses, most notably with the Junge Philharmonie Wien, the European Union Youth Orchestra and the Wiener Jeunesse Orchester. He was also an academy member of the Vienna Philharmonic and at the Salzburg Festival. Besides his work in various folk music ensembles and brass ensembles such as Brass Connection Tirol, the Brass Band Fröschl Hall and the Posaunenquartett Zillertal he also played the bass trombone with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Salonorchester Alt Wien, the Original Strauss Capelle Wien and the orchestra of the Vienna State Opera Ball.

During the 2016/17 school year he taught baritone and trombone at the music school in Bruck an der Leitha. He has also taught in various workshops and courses.

Since 2016 Simon Wildauer has worked as a bass trombonist for the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.