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Marcelo Padilla was born in Miami, USA in 1980 and grew up in Costa Rica. He did his diploma studies with Eugenia Sequeira in Barcelona and with Milan Turkovic, Stepan Turnovsky and Richard Galler at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, graduating with distinction.

He has played as a guest in orchestras such as the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonia Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg and Camerata Salzburg.

Marcelo Padilla was Senior Lecturer at the Oberschützen Institute of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and since 2011 has held a bassoon professorship at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna.

Following his tenure at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona he has been with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2002, initially as principal and second double bassoon, since 2005 as assistant principal bassoon and since 2019 as principal bassoon.

from Chisinau, Rep. Moldova.
First musical education at the "Ciprian Porumbescu" music high school in Chisinau, Moldova. Afterwards he studied at the Musikhochschule in Trossingen with Prof. Akio Koyama, at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Mannheim with Prof Ole K. Dahl and at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Stuttgart with Prof. Marc Engelhardt.

During his school years he successfully participated in international competitions in Romania, winning 1st prize at the "Remember Enescu" in 2000 in Bucharest and 1st prize at the "Miniatura Romantica" 2003 in Galati, Romania.

In 2014 he became Deputy Principal Bassoonist of the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra in Finland, where he worked until 2020.
As a substitute or on temporary contract he played with the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra, the Tonkünstler Orchestra, the German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Saarbrücken, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Helsinki, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra (Finland), the Innsbruck Symphony Orchestra and the Dalasinfoniettan (Sweden).

Additionally, he was a member of the European Union Baroque Orchestra as a baroque bassoonist in 2016. He has also performed with historic instruments with the Finnish Baroque Orchestra and the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra.
Since 2020 he has been deputy principal bassoonist with the RSO Vienna.

Martin Machovits was born in Vienna in 1966.

He joined the Vienna Boys’ Choir at the age of ten, staying with them for four years. He studied bassoon with Prof. Michael Werba at the Vienna Conservatory, graduating with distinction.

In 1986 Martin Machovits began his professional career at the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien and from 1987 to 1990 he was a member of the Bruckner Orchestra in Linz. He is a founder member of the bassoon quartet Fagotes Locos.

He has played second bassoon and double bassoon with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 1990.

Leonard Eröd was born in Graz in 1977.

He studied first with Michael Werba at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna and then with Richard Galler and Marco Postinghel at the University Mozarteum Salzburg where he passed his master’s examinations in 2008 with distinction.

As a soloist and chamber musician (with the CrossNova Ensemble, the ensemble “die reihe” and the RSO bassoon quartet Fagotes Locos among others) his playing has already been heard in Austria and abroad. In addition, he has been involved in playing on historical instruments in recent years.

Besides his work as a musician, he is also an arranger and often teaches courses in chamber music and holds sessions for youth orchestras. He is also regularly involved in Jeunesse projects.

After four years with the Bruckner Orchestra in Linz he has been principal double bassoonist with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2007. In addition he runs the “RSO music lab”, a series of educational workshops for school classes and guided concerts.