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.

Amalie Elmark, born in 1992 in Copenhagen, is an alumna of The Juilliard School in New York under the tutelage of Stephen Clapp and of the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna under Gerhard Schulz and Christian Altenburger. For graduating summa cum laude from the soloist class in 2020 she received the Award of Excellence from the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research of Austria.

She has played in masterclasses with Nicola Benedetti, Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, Noah Bendix-Balgley, Boris Kushnir and Alexander Sitkovetzky. She is the recipient of numerous scholarships (amongst others the Music Prize of the Danish Radio Orchestra, the Danish National Bank, and the Augustinus Foundation) and a prizewinner at multiple competitions. For her interpretation of the Beethoven Violin Concerto, she was awarded the Music Prize of the Van-Hauen Foundation.

As a soloist and chamber musician she has appeared in concert halls in the U.S., Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Latvia, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Denmark, and Austria alongside musicians such as Hartmut Rohde, Patrick Demenga, Christof Schiller, Joseph Swensen, and Matthew Rowe. In the fall of 2016, she appeared as second concertmaster with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam in their “Side by Side”-concert series in the Wiener Musikverein. In 2021 she was tenured as a member of the first violin section of the Vienna RSO.

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.

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.

Born in Vienna in 1996 to a family of musicians, she was influenced by music from an early age. She initially took piano lessons before discovering the violin.
She studied in the preparatory program and later pursued violin performance with Lieke Te Winkel at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. In 2017, she participated in the Erasmus program at the Royal College of Music in London under Detlef Hahn, before continuing her studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Albena Danailova, where she graduated with honors in the winter of 2021.

Her chamber music performances include appearances at the Hvide Sande Festival in Denmark, Domaine Forget in Canada, Esker Festival in Ireland, as well as at con anima Musiktage, the Styrian Chamber Music Summer, the Chamber Music Festival in Sankt Gallen, brücken für neue Musik, the Mond.Klang.Festival, and as a permanent member of Klangperipherie Wien.

She gained orchestral experience in the European Union Youth Orchestra (EUYO) and the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra (GMJO). She has participated in international masterclasses with Ernst Kovacic, Benjamin Schmid, Tanja Becker-Bender, Ulf Wallin, and Jean-Marc Phillips.

Since November 2024, Manon Stankovski has been a permanent member of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Anaïs Tamisier was born in Avignon, France, and since 2008 has been first violinist of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2008. She has been interim principal of the 1st violin since February 2021.

She is a founding member of the Darian Trio, which won the special prize of the Fondation Pro Musicis at the Pro Musicis Competition 2012 in Paris and the Tait Memorial Award (GB) in 2015.

As a permanent member of the European Chamber Music Academy in 2013-2014, she enjoyed the musical and human support of internationally renowned artists such as Hatto Beyerle, Johannes Meissl, Ferenc Rados, Erich Höbarth, András Schiff, Petr Prause and Miguel da Silva.

She has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in France, England, Austria, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Italy, Canada, China and Japan and has performed at numerous festivals such as Open Chamber Music Prussia Cove in GB, Festival de Prades in France, Mozartfest Würzburg in Germany, Jeunesse Österreich, Concerti d'Estate di Villa Guariglia in Italy, Setouchi Triennale in Japan.

In Vienna, she has performed in numerous different chamber music formations, from duo to string sextet, including the Gläserner Saal and Brahms Saal of the Vienna Musikverein, the Mozart Saal of the Vienna Konzerthaus.

As part of the RSO Vienna's chamber music series, she has been a guest at the Arnold Schönberg Center and the Vienna Radio Culture House and has often been heard on Radio Ö1.

She is co-founder and artistic director of the International Violin Competition "Ginette Neveu" for young violinists in Avignon. Since 2018, she has also been working as a speaker, developing projects that combine music and drama. She also performs herself, in German and in French, in music theatre projects for children.

Since October 2021, Anaïs Tamisier has been a lecturer in chamber music at the Joseph Haydn Institute at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

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.