oboe

Kerstin Steinbauer, born in 2001 in Tulln, Austria, began her musical training as an oboist in 2010 at the Tulln Music School with Mag. Eva Griebl-Stich. From 2017 onwards, she continued her studies with Prof. Thomas Höniger at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna, first in the preparatory programme and subsequently in the Bachelor’s degree programme. In January 2025, she transferred within the Bachelor’s programme to study with Clara Dent-Bogányi, with whom she completed her degree in summer 2025.

She further refined her artistic development through masterclasses with renowned musicians such as Ivan Podyomov, François Leleux, Gregor Witt, David Walter, Jean-Louis Capezzali, Christian Wetzel, Albrecht Mayer and Ramón Ortega Quero. Kerstin Steinbauer is a prizewinner of Musica Juventutis at the Vienna Konzerthaus and a multiple first-prize winner of the Austrian competition prima la musica at both regional and national levels.

In 2021, she participated in the Angelika Prokopp Summer Academy of the Vienna Philharmonic. From September 2023 to June 2025, she was an Academist with the Vienna Philharmonic, and from September 2025 with the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria, before winning the audition for Principal Oboe with the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna in October 2025.

As a regular guest musician, Kerstin Steinbauer has gained valuable professional experience with orchestras including the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria, the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna, the Vienna Volksoper, the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Philharmonic.

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.