Musiker Detail

Łucja Madziar, born in Poznań, Poland, has been the First Concertmaster of the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna since 2023 and is an internationally sought-after violinist.

She received her training in Germany and Austria under renowned teachers such as Prof. Petru Munteanu and Prof. Silvia Marcovici and was further influenced by celebrated musicians like Ida Haendel, Ivry Gitlis, and Shlomo Mintz.

As a laureate of international competitions – including the 1st Prize at the "Vaclav Huml" Competition in Zagreb and an award at the "Fritz Kreisler" Competition in Vienna – she regularly performs as a soloist with renowned orchestras and conductors.

Łucja Madziar places a special focus on Polish music, particularly the works of Grażyna Bacewicz. In the 2024/25 season, she will perform Bacewicz’s violin concertos with several orchestras and is currently recording all seven of the composer’s violin concertos with the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt under Łukasz Borowicz for the cpo label.

She plays a violin by Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi (1759) and a bow by Nikolai Kittel (c. 1860).

Maighréad McCrann has been 1. Concertmaster of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 1993. In 1997 she was appointed Professor of violin at the University of Performing Arts in Graz. During this time she has also enjoyed a versatile career as a soloist, chamber musician and directing chamber orchestras from the violin. Her passion for teaching has resulted in many masterclasses and intense coaching with the youth orchestras of Spain, Catalunya, Columbia, the Vienna Jeunesse Orchestra and the National Orchestral Institute in Washington.

Born in Dublin where she studied with Brian McNamara, she graduated from Trinity College of music in 1984 and commenced studying in Vienna with Ernst Kovacic. Further violin lessons with Sandor Vegh and David Takeno. She was a member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and played baroque violin with Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s Concentus Musicus.

Franz-Markus Siegert, born in Dresden in 1981, began his training as a musician at the age of 15 in the class for gifted students conducted by Prof. Rudolf Rampf at the music college in Trossingen. He completed his studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Prof. Christian Altenburger in 2009, graduating with distinction. He gathered further experience in master classes given by Dorothy Delay and Kurt Sassmannshaus in Aspen, Colorado.

While a student he was concertmaster of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, receiving the funding award of the European Culture Foundation for this activity in 2007. He received invitations as guest concertmaster at the Bayerische Staatsoper and with the Bayerisches Staatsorchester, the London Philharmonia Orchestra and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra. He was also a member of the Orchestra Mozart in Bologna at the invitation of Claudio Abbado.

He is a member of several chamber music ensembles and undertook a number of concert tours to Japan as first violin of the Rasumofsky-Quartett Wien during which he played in the Tokyo Opera City Hall and the Tokyo Oji Hall among others.

Franz-Markus Siegert has been assistant concertmaster of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2009.

Kristina Suklar was born in Serbia in 1983. In 1997 she began her studies at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna in Prof. Werner Hink’s class. Parallel to these studies, she began studying at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz with Prof. Tibor Varga in 2003. That same year she was awarded the Herbert-von-Karajan scholarship. In 2009 she completed her master’s degree in Prof. Pavel Vernikov’s class, graduating with distinction.

She has held the position of concertmaster in the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra in Japan, the Zagreb Philharmonic, the UBS Chamber Orchestra and, since 2006, has regularly played with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra.

She was a prizewinner in the Fidelio Competition and the Anton Bruckner Competition of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. In 2006 she won second prize in the GRADUS AD PARNASSUM competition in Vienna.

In 2009 she became leader of the first violin section in the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, and since 2011 has been assistant concertmaster.

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.

Lyrico Sonnleitner-Nakajima was born in Tokyo.

Her music teachers were Prof. Kazuki Sawa, Prof. Kiyoshi Okayama, Prof. Hakuro Mouri and Szimon Goldberg. She studied at the Toho Gakuen Music University with Prof. Shizuko Ishii. While still a student she took part in concert tours to France and the USA. In 1993 she came to Austria where she studied with Prof. Günter Pichler at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna on a scholarship from the Alban Berg Foundation.

The violinist has already performed at several festivals including Les Rencontres Musicales d’Évian (1991), the Tanglewood Music Festival (1993 and 1994), the Festival d’Ambronay (1995), the Saito Kinen Festival (1998) and the Festival Omaggio a Palladio every year from 2004 to 2011.

She is interested in chamber music from the Baroque to the modern as well as music with expanded tonality. Nowadays she can be found most often in Switzerland, Austria or Japan.

She received the Bösendorfer and Iiyama Emiko awards from the Austro-Japanese Culture Society.

Lyrico Sonnleitner-Nakajima works as a lecturer in master classes in Japan.
Since 1996, she has been principal second violin in the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.

The violinist Marianna Oczkowska was born in Warsaw in 1983 and studied at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, graduating with distinction.

She is an internationally active and much sought-after performer of new music. She is a founder member of the Platypus ensemble for new music that, besides frequent concert engagements, has also made several recordings and held numerous workshops. In addition to this, she also plays with the ensemble “die reihe”, ensemble xx. jahrhundert, Ensemble Kontrapunkte, the ensemble Wiener Collage, the Schallfeld Ensemble and Studio Dan. She is a regular collaborator with composers, who have dedicated several works to her. She performs at prestigious international festivals of new music as a soloist and chamber musician (e.g. Festival Wien Modern, Festival Klangspuren in Schwaz, Meridian Festival in Bucharest). She is a member of the Hans Rott Quartett and an instructor for the Wiener Jeunesse Orchester and at Camp Styria, the international orchestra camp for 9- to 16-year-olds.

A winner of numerous prizes and scholarships (including the honorary prize of Vienna Music University, Ossiach orchestra academy) she has also been a member of leading youth orchestras (such as the European Union Youth Orchestra, the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra).

She has been principal second violin with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2011.

Aileen Dullaghan was born in Ireland in 1969. She started taking violin lessons in 1975. From 1986 to 1991 she studied with Brian McNamara at Trinity College of Music in Dublin, graduating with distinction. She was also the recipient of a medal for “Excellence in performance”. She then began studying concert violin with Prof. Ernst Kovacic at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, graduating in 1998, again with distinction.

During her days as a student in Ireland she was leader of the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, made her debut with the RTE Concert Orchestra and was a member of the Irish Chamber Orchestra. In 1991 she played with the European Community Youth Orchestra and that same year performed in the television show Music of the Night produced by the Irish broadcaster RTE. While studying in Vienna she was a member of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and the Klangforum Wien. In 1994, Aileen Dullaghan performed in the ORF television show Meister von Morgen and was a soloist with the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland and the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland. Since 1999 she has regularly performed as a soloist with the Vienna Mozart Orchestra.

She has been a member of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2002.

Eirina Belomazova was born in Bulgaria in 1985. From 1990 she lived in Thessaloniki, Greece where she studied in her mother’s class at the Synchrono Conservatory. From 2004 she studied violin in Prof. Michael Frischenschlager’s class at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, graduating in 2012. At the same time she studied chamber music with Prof. Johannes Meissl and attended master classes given by Ginka Gichkova, Vanya Milanova, Marianne Piketty, Mincho Minchev and Y. Neamann, among others. During her time at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna she twice received a scholarship.

Eirina Belomazova has been a member of the Yehudi Menuhin LMN Organisation since 2005. She has performed as a violinist in Austria, Greece, Bulgaria, France, Italy, Germany, Hungary and Liechtenstein with the Trio Prestige and the IMSK-Quartett in collaboration with Alvaro Pierri. As an orchestra musician she has played with the European Union Youth Orchestra, the Wiener Jeunesse Orchester and the Schubert Akademie (the orchestra of the Vienna Boys’ Choir).

She has won prizes at national competitions in Bulgaria and Greece, at the 18th International Chamber Music Competition in Thessaloniki, the Windisch Chamber Music Competition in Vienna and “Gradus ad Parnassum”.

She has been part of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2014.

Barbara Chomča was born in Vienna in 1970.

She began taking violin lessons in Linz at the age of seven. She studied concert performance and trained as a teacher at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz with Prof. Bohumil Semik, continuing her concert performance studies with Prof. Michael Schnitzler at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She supplemented her studies with master classes given by Lynn Blakeslee and Ivry Gitlis.

She has been a member of various orchestras and ensembles including the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and the ensemble actuell under Franz Welser-Möst.

From 1996 to 1997 she stood in for a colleague on maternity leave in the Bruckner Orchestra in Linz. In 1998 Barbara Chomča was accepted into the Vienna RSO orchestra academy, and since 2002 she has been a permanent member of the second violin section.

Boris Pavlovsky was born in Russia and completed his studies first at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Prof. Eduard Grach) and subsequently at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Prof. Klaus Mätzel and Prof. Gerald Schubert), graduating from both with distinction.
Performing as both a soloist and a chamber musician is of great importance to the violinist who has already recorded several CDs including the six violin concerti by Ysay.

Because he very much enjoys playing contemporary music he feels particularly at home in the Vienna RSO.

He has been a member of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2013.

Johannes Pflegerl was born in Carinthia, Austria in 1976.

Following his first studies at the University Mozarteum Salzburg he moved to the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He also studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

He has played the second violin with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2006.

Tongtong Sun was born in China in 1991.

At the tender age of 10, she began violin lessons with Prof. Binyou Zhou at a music school affiliated with the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. At the age of 15, she took chamber music lessons with Prof. Jensen Horn-Sin Lam. Since 2012, she has been studying at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna under Prof. Jan Pospichal. In 2020 she graduated with distinction.

She has performed as a chamber musician and soloist in Canada, Singapore, China as well as Europe. She has participated in numerous competitions and won prizes. Among others, she was a finalist in the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition in 2006 and received 2nd prize in the International Violin Competition Kloster Schöntal in 2007.

From 2008 to 2012, she played in the Simply Quartet, which won 1st prize in the Shanghai Chamber Music Competition in 2009 and received the special prize as "the most promising young string quartet" in the Beijing International Music Competition in 2011. Furthermore, she was a member of the ensemble xx. jahrhundert Wien.

Since 2018 Tongtong Sun is a member of the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna.

Sibylle Wurzinger-Gund was born in Bad Ischl, Austria in 1962 where she also grew up. She is a granddaughter of Robert Gund, composer of late Romantic lieder.

She took lessons with Fritz Scharlach in Salzburg, Karl Schatz in Linz and Thomas Kakuska in Vienna. Following completion of her diploma programme she passed the examination qualifying her as a teacher with distinction.
From 1984 to 1986 she was a substitute principal violinist with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Vienna Haydn-Sinfonietta.

From 1988 to 2010 she was a member of the ensemble Plus Ultra which focuses on Baroque chamber music. Since 2005 the musician has appeared regularly with the Währinger Streichquartett.

Sibylle Wurzinger-Gund has been a member of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 1987.

Iva Yablanska was born in Pleven, Bulgaria in 1988. She received her first violin lessons at the age of five.

She graduated from high school at the National School for Music in Sofia in the class taught by Blagorodna Taneva and Mincho Minchev. From 2007 she studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Prof. Jela Spitkova and Prof. Josef Hell. In 2015 she completed a degree course at the Academy of Performing Arts in Banska Bystrica.

Besides her work with the RSO Vienna, the musician is also a member of the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra in Japan and the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester.

Iva Yablanska has attended master classes given by Prof. Shlomo Minz, Prof. Michael Frischenschlager, Prof. Vladimir Spivakov, Prof. Mincho Minchev, Prof. Oleh Krysa, Prof. Patrick Koehn, Prof. Sergey Kravchenko, Prof. Svetlin Roussev and Prof. David Chan.

She has won prizes in numerous competitions: in 2000 she won second prize in the Paul Konstantinesku international violin competition in Romania, in 2001 the Grand Prix in the national violin competition for German and Austrian music, and in 2002 first prize in the P. Vladigerov national violin competition in Bulgaria, first prize in the Peter Toschkov international violin competition in Serbia and first prize in the Dobrin Petkov violin competition in Bulgaria. In 2005 she won first prize in the international Young Virtuoso competition in Bulgaria and in 2007 second prize.

In 2010 Iva Yablanska obtained a position at the academy of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and has been a permanent member since 2011.

Mario Gheorghiu was born in Vienna in 1972. He studied violin from the age of six with Prof. Georg Mark, Prof. Michael Frischenschlager, Prof. Alfred Staar and Prof. Josef Hell with whom he later studied concert violin at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, graduating with distinction. He also studied jazz and composition in Linz and Vienna and completed at postgraduate degree course in concert viola with Prof. Hans Peter Ochsenhofer.

From 2003 to 2008 he was a permanent member of the Tonkünstler Orchestra in Lower Austria, playing the violin. He has also been engaged as a substitute in several orchestras including the Vienna Philharmonic. As a soloist he has performed with a number of orchestras, playing at the Carnegie Recital Hall on Fritz Kreisler’s Guarneri del Gesù. This was followed by a full US tour. Since 2000 he has been concertmaster of the Vienna Opera Ball orchestra.

Mario Gheorghiu is also at home in the field of jazz: in 2000 he was guest rock violinist with the band Extravaganza with Conrad Schrenk and Thomas Lang. He has founded several ensembles such as the jazz ensemble Table 6 (2003), Mario Gheorghiu’s JAZZ Corner (2011) and the crossover band Jetlag Allstars (2013). He has also performed with the Vienna Art Orchestra, Velvet Elevators, Wynton Marsalis, Bobby McFerrin, Michael Brecker and many other musicians from the Austrian jazz scene. He has received invitations to numerous jazz festivals in Jakarta, Bali, Paris, Osaka, Boston and Bilbao and is a regular guest jazz violinist in the Porgy & Bess and Jazzland jazz clubs in Vienna.

He has won first prize in many music competitions and besides his many activities as a solo and chamber music violist in Austria and elsewhere he also teaches in various master classes.

He has been viola leader with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2008.

Andrea Stadler was born in Salzburg in 1993.

She started learning the violin and viola at the age of four with Erntraud Passin and Wolfram Tröndle. In 2007 she began a non-degree course of studies at the University Mozarteum Salzburg with Veronika Hagen and from 2008 with Peter Langgartner. She studied with Predrag Katanic at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz, graduation with distinction. Since 2016 she has been studying at the MDW with Prof. Sebastian Herberg.

Andrea Stadler is a member of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and a substitute with the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg. In 2012 she took part in a project with the Bruckner Orchestra Linz and played in the concert "side by side" with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam. 2014 she won an audition for substitutes for Camerata Salzburg.

After three years in the Vienna RSO's orchestra academy she has won an audition 2018 for a tutti position in the Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck and also in the Vienna RSO.

Tomáš Bumbál was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1973. He received his first violin lessons from his grandfather at the age of four. In 1987 he began training at the conservatory in his home city and, after graduating from school, enrolled at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. There he studied first with Prof. Franz Samohyl, continuing in 1995 with Prof. Hans Peter Ochsenhofer. In 2003 he passed his diploma examination with distinction.

While still a student he was a substitute in the Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Philharmonic. Today he has a keen interest in chamber music and is a member of the Vienna Rasumovsky Quartett with whom he regularly performs in Europe and Japan.

Tomáš Bumbál has been assistant principal viola in the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2002.

Julia Puchegger was born in Linz in 1976.

In 1982 she began training as a violinist at the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz with Bohumil Semik. In 1994 she switched to viola, continuing her studies with Prof. Führlinger at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Julia Puchegger is especially interested in traditional folk music and has been able to gain some experience of this in Ireland, Norway and Slovakia. In addition, she was a member of a Schrammel quartet for several years, paying light popular Viennese music.

In 2003, she began playing for the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra in the academy, and since 2008 has been assistant principal viola.

Raphael Handschuh was born in Vienna in 1983 and studied with Herbert Müller at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna. In 2011 he obtained his master’s degree, passing with distinction.

He has won prizes at the Fidelio Competition, “Gradus ad Parnassum” and in 2009 received the START scholarship of the Austrian Federal Chancellery.

From 2005 to 2007 he was a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra. Since 2008 he has been a substitute in the Vienna Philharmonic and has played in concerts and on tours with Riccardo Muti, Christian Thielemann, Lorin Maazel, Valery Gergiev, Pierre Boulez, Simon Rattle and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. In 2009 he was a guest musician with the English Chamber Orchestra and in 2011 guest principal viola with the Tonkünstler Orchestra. He is a great student of early music and plays on historical instruments in the Wiener Akademie as well as with chamber music colleagues such as Sylvie Lacroix and Rudolf Leopold.

Raphael Handschuh was a scholarship holder at the Zermatt Festival during which he was able to take part in concerts and workshops with soloists from the Berliner Philharmoniker (such as Albrecht Mayer and Emmanuel Pahud) and with the Scharoun Ensemble. In 2008 he founded the European Chamber Players. He regularly works as a conductor, plays a variety of plucked instruments such as the mandolin and the guitar in various orchestras and is viola instructor of the Wiener Jeunesse Orchester.

Raphael Handschuh has been a violist with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2008. He attended the orchestra’s academy from 2008 to 2011 and has been a permanent member since 2011.

Raphael Handschuh is dramatic advisor for chamber music at the Vienna RSO.

Wilhelm Klebel was born in Klosterneuburg in Lower Austria in 1961.

He studied viola with Prof. Siegfried Führlinger at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and attended master classes given by Thomas Riebl and Endre Guran. Under the tutelage of the mezzo-soprano Caitlin Hulcup he also developed his singing voice and has contributed to arranging church services in St. Ruprecht for many years as a singer, conductor and viola player.

Wilhelm Klebel was a member of the Vienna Boys’ Choir and has played with ensembles such as the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Concilium musicum and the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Philharmonie.

He has been a member of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 1989.

Samuel Mittag, born in Switzerland in 1996, received his first violin lessons from Sandra Albrecht. At the age of 7, he switched to Prof. Herbert Scherz, where he was also taught the viola in addition to the violin.
From 2014 he received private lessons from Prof. Patrick Jüdt. One year later, at the age of 14, Samuel Mittag began his bachelor's degree at the Bern University of the Arts with Prof. Jüdt, majoring in viola. After completing his studies in Bern (Master of Music Education with distinction), he continued his studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Prof. Thomas Selditz in 2017, which he also completed with distinction.
He gained his first orchestral experience with the Sinfonietta Schaffhausen, the Camerata Schweiz and the Bern Symphony Orchestra. From 2019 to 2021, Samuel Mittag was a member of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Academy, during which time he received individual tuition from principal violist Prof. Tobias Lea. He also took part in many masterclasses, where he was influenced by Prof. Hatto Beyerle and Prof. Mikhail Mouller, among others.
Samuel Mittag was a scholarship holder of the "Friedl Wald Foundation" and the "Lyra Foundation". He has been a violist with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2021.

Lara Sophie Schmitt was born and raised in Vienna and began her musical education at the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität as a junior student with Prof. Herbert Müller. Her studies later took her to Lübeck, Paris, Frankfurt/Main and Munich. Her teachers include Jean Sulem and Hariolf Schlichtig. In the 2018/19 season she held the position of 1st solo viola at the Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich, followed by further engagements at the Bavarian State Opera. She gained further orchestral experience during her studies with the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, the Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra.
During her studies, she devoted herself intensively to chamber music and the performance of contemporary works. As a duo with pianist Toni Ming Geiger, she won the Kamar Percy and Ingeborg John Prize in 2018, which included a CD recording. In the same year, she won 2nd prize at the International Hindemith Viola Competition. In 2014 she participated in the CD production "noch:schon - Musik an der Schwelle", for which she recorded B.A. Zimmermann's Sonata for Viola solo as well as G. Mahler's Piano Quartet.

She was a scholarship holder of the Cusanuswerk as well as the PE-Förderkreis for students of music.

Catharina Stenström Langelaar was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1961. In 1991 she married Geert Langelaar, also a member of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. The couple have two children.

She received her first piano lessons at the age of four and started learning the viola aged nine. From 1980 she studied concert viola at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm with Prof. Zahri Tchavdarov. A chamber music festival in Umeå attended by professors from Vienna gave her the opportunity to spend a year studying at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in Prof. Siegfried Führlinger’s class. After completing her master’s degree in Stockholm in 1984 she began a diploma programme in Vienna, graduating in 1987 with distinction.

Catharina Stenström Langelaar’s first experience of orchestral playing came with the Stockholm symphony and opera orchestras. Her close connections with the Swedish community and embassy in Vienna give her many opportunities to play as a soloist and a chamber musician.

She has played viola with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 1986.

Julia Schreyvogel was born in Vienna in 1974.

She was only seven when she began her training as a cellist with Cecilie Ottensamer at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna. In 1995 she continued her studies at Berlin University of the Arts with Prof. Wolfgang Boettcher. She obtained her diploma in concert performance, passing with distinction, and in 1999 she also obtained her diploma from Berlin. Parallel to her university studies she attended master classes given by Boris Pergamenschikow, Janos Starker and Menahem Pressler. She also conducted artistic studies with members of the Alban Berg Quartett and the Haydn-Trio Wien.

Since 1996 Julia Schreyvogel has been a member of the piano trio trio VIENNarte that has already won several prizes in international competitions and has recorded CDs with works by Haydn, Brahms and Mendelssohn. In addition, she tours Europe, South America and Asia as a chamber musician with the Koehne Quartett, the ensemble Kontrapunkte, the ensemble “die reihe” and other chamber music ensembles. She has also appeared at festivals such as Wien Modern, Klangbogen Wien, Festival Bonheur Musical (France), Rheingau-Festival and the Festival Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. From 2001 to 2002 she was principal cello of Camerata Salzburg and from 2003 to 2004 she played with the Bamberger Symphoniker.

As a cellist she has won several prizes at the Jugend musiziert competition. In 1993 she was awarded the special prize of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and in 1994 won the funding prize of the Carl Flesch Academy in Baden-Baden.

She has been assistant principal cello with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2005.

Raffael Dolezal was born in Tokyo in 1986.

He was only six when he began his training as a pianist with Prof. Helene Sedo-Stadler at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna. He received his first cello lessons from his father Friedrich Dolezal. In 2002 he switched to the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna where he continued his studies under Prof. Wolfgang Herzer, Maria Sellner and Prof. Robert Nagy. Raffael Dolezal completed his training under Bernhard Naoki Hedenborg. He also devoted a great deal of time to chamber music and received instruction from members of the Artis Quartet among others.

He was able to gain experience of orchestral playing with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Tonkünstler Orchestra in Lower Austria and the academy of the Vienna RSO. In 2010 and 2011 he was a member of the stage orchestra of the Salzburg Festival and from 2009 to 2014 took part in the Angelika Prokopp summer academy staged by the Vienna Philharmonic. Concert tours with various chamber music ensembles have taken him across Austria, Europe and Japan. In 2015 Raffael Dolezal was a lecturer at the Pacific Music Festival in Japan.

Since 2016 he has been assistant principal cello with the Vienna RSO.

Solveig Nordmeyer was born in Upper Austria in 1971 and began taking cello lessons at the age of seven.

As a high school student she received cello instruction at the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz and the Mozarteum Salzburg with Wilfried Tachezi.
After passing her school-leaving exams at the music high school in Linz, she began studying cello at the University of Music and Performing Arts with Valentin Erben, graduating in 1995 with distinction.
She followed this with a postgraduate degree course at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest and numerous master classes with Yo-Yo Ma, Frans Helmerson, Emil Klein and David Geringas, among others.

From 1996 to 2000 she was principal cello with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and since then has been very active as a chamber and ensemble musician (Ensemble Kontrapunkte, Ensemble Prisma).

In addition, she is a partner of the Johann Sebastian Bach Music School Vienna and teaches there and at various summer camps.

She has been assistant principal cello with the Vienna RSO since 2001.

Marta Kordykiewicz was born in 1990 in Warsaw and begun playing the cello at the age of seven. She graduated with honors from Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, where she was working with prof. Tomasz Strahl and Rafał Kwiatkowski. She continued her education at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna by prof. Reinhard Latzko.
2016-2018 she took part in the Orchestra Academy project of the ORF-Radio Symphony Orchestra in Vienna. After that she was a co-leader of the cello group of the Grazer Philharmoniker/Oper Graz. 2017-2019 she was also an assistant-teacher in the class of prof. Stefan Kropfitsch at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. 2021 she joined the Vienna RSO again, this time as a permanent member. Since 2018 she has also been a member of Trio Frizzante, which she regularly performs with in Austria and abroad.

She is a prize-winner of several major competitions in Poland, she also received multiple awards and scholarships i.a. of Polish Minister of Culture and Art. She was invited to take part in the "New Masters on Tour 2018" with solo concerts in Het Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and National Philharmony in Bratislava.

She took part in many music festivals i.a. in Austria, Poland, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Hungary, Ukraine, Italy and Greece. As a soloist she performed with some major polish orchestras, such as Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Sinfonia Varsovia. She participated in many masterclasses, during which she had a chance to work with outstanding artists, such as Arto Noras, Valentin Erben, David Geringas, Apollon-Musagète Quartet. She regularly performs with Ensemble Kontrapunkte in Musikverein in Vienna.

Johannes Kubitschek was born in Innsbruck in 1979.

He began playing the cello at the age of five and his teachers have included Klaus Haselwanter and Michael Tomasi. In 1996 he began studying with Clemens Hagen and Heidi Litschauer at the University Mozarteum Salzburg. In 2004 he passed his diploma examination with distinction. He then went on to do a postgraduate course with Tobias Stosiek at Graz University.

He was able to broaden his musical horizons and gain further experience in master classes given by Thomas and Patrick Demenga, Antonio Meneses and Wenn-Sinn Yang.

Johannes Kubitschek enjoys playing in small ensembles, and has already performed with several European and American groups such as the Wiener Jeunesse Orchester and the European Union Youth Orchestra. He was a substitute in the Tiroler Symphonieorchester and the Mozarteumorchester in Salzburg, and also helped out the Camerata Salzburg ensemble. Since 2003 he has been a member of the Mirabellquartett Salzburg and since 2010 has played for Trio Frizzante.

He was won several prizes at the Jugend musiziert and prima la musica competitions. In 1999 and again in 2008 he won third prize at the international cello competition in Liezen.

He has worked as a cellist for the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2008.

Till-Georg Schüssler was born in Stuttgart in 1962 and studied at the Musikhochschule in Köln and Vienna.

He was principal cello with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra from 1987 to 1994. Since 2001 he has been a member of the Rasumofsky-Quartett Wien.

Till-Georg Schüssler has been playing with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 1994.

Goran Kostić, born in Belgrade/Serbia, completed his studies with Prof. Klaus Trumpf in Munich. In addition to his diverse orchestral activities, his affinity for chamber music and solo playing led to a professorship for chamber music at the University in Kragujevac/Serbia in 2009 as well as numerous master classes and concerts throughout Europe. As a result of his artistic activity and many years of research in the field of solo playing, he received his PhD from the University in Belgrade in 2017.
Goran Kostić focuses on considering the double bass as an equal solo instrument of the string instrument family. This gave birth to the idea of "Double Bass & Rhodes", for which several pieces have already been provided by composers. It is 'classical' music of the 21st century, but strongly influenced by American popular forms of the 20th century - jazz and rock.

Michael Pistelok was born in Bytom, Poland in 1962.

His musical talent was already evident at the age of six while he was still at kindergarten, and he began to learn the violin at the local state music school. Six years later he switched to double bass. He graduated with distinction in double bass from the Music Academy in Katowice, Poland.
While still studying there, he was engaged by some of Poland’s leading orchestras such as the Sinfonia Varsovia. He was also a member of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and played as double bass leader under such renowned conductors as Claudio Abbado, Lorin Maazel, George Prêtre, Marc Minkowski, Gustavo Dudamel and Daniel Harding.

He is also a much sought-after interpreter of contemporary music in ensembles such as Kontrapunkte and “die reihe”.

Michael Pistelok has been a member of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 1987 and since 2001 has been assistant principal double bass.

Bernhard Ziegler was born in 1964.

He studied at the Leopold Mozart Centre for Music and Music Education at the University of Augsburg and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in Ludwig Streicher’s double bass class.

He is a lecturer in double bass at the Joseph Haydn Landeskonservatorium where he has established a particular teaching focus by founding a double bass class for children. He is also a founder of the double bass teachers’ collective Pädagogische Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kontrabass PAKOE. In addition, he holds lectures on the history of, teaching of and other topics relating to the instrument at double bass seminars and publishes literature on the instrument via Vienna Bass Edition.

Bernhard Ziegler was also a judge for the prima la musica competition and had the same function at the first international competition for young bass players at Bass 2010 in Berlin and Bass 2012 in Copenhagen.

Bernhard Ziegler has been a member of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2001.

Yamato Moritake was born in Fukuoka, Japan. After studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Tokyo and the University of Music and Theatre Munich, he completed a master's degree with distinction at the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz. His teachers were Osamu Yamamoto, Yoshio Nagashima, Naoto Nishida, Heinrich Braun and Anton Schachenhofer.

He was a scholarship holder of the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Yamaha Foundation and the Yu-International Foundation. He received the first prize and the Fuka Special Prize at the International Simandl Competition in 2014, and in 2018 he became a principal in the Brucknerorchester Linz. During his tenure with the Brucknerorchester Linz from 2012 to 2018, he regularly organized concerts with Caritas for people in need.

As a member of the Vienna State Opera, Dresden State Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Lower Austrian Tonkünstler Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic, New Japan Philharmonic, Yomiuri Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo City Symphony Orchestra, Sapporo Symphony Orchestra and Japan Chamber Orchestra, he has regularly performed in Austria, Germany, France, Great Britain, USA, Russia, Japan, South Korea, China, Bulgaria, Romania, Switzerland and Turkey.

In addition to his occupation as a double bass player, he performed as an electric bass soloist in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein Vienna under Dennis Russell Davies with the Bruckner Orchestra Linz.

Since November 2018 he is a member of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and teacher in the Landesmusikschule Grein.

Raimund Weichenberger was born in Salzburg in 1982.

His studies, which he passed with distinction, took him to Linz, Vienna, Salzburg and Munich.

Among the ensembles he has played with to date are the Wiener Symphoniker, Sinfonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, the Munich Bach Orchestra and the Salzburg Orchestra Soloists. He has also performed at the Wiener Staatsoper and the Tiroler Festspiele in Erl. His musical activities are rounded off by solo and chamber music performances in a wide variety of ensembles and the foundation of the Flötenquartett Salzburg.

He has won prizes at national and international competitions.

From 2014 to 2015 he taught at the Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität Linz. He now passes on his musical know-how at the Musikum Salzburg and in various flute courses.

Since 2015 he has been principal flute with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Born in Vienna in 1977, Andreas Planyavsky studied with Gottfried Hechtl and Wolfgang Schulz. In 2006 he passed his diploma examination with distinction. He supplemented his musical training with master classes, such as those given by Aurelé Nicolet.

While still at school and as a university student he played with the Wiener Jeunesse Orchester, the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester under Claudio Abbado and as a substitute in the orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, with the Vienna Philharmonic and others. In addition, he often plays as a guest musician with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Tonkünstler Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg and at the Vienna Volksoper. He performs with the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Philharmonie and ensembles including “die reihe” and Kontrapunkte. The flautist has many solo and chamber music engagements in Austria and abroad, for example in the Radiokulturhaus, at Musica juventutis, at the Styriarte and with the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg.

Andreas Planyavsky was a prizewinner at the Kammermusikfestival Austria and has won several prizes in the competitions Jugend musiziert and "Gradus ad Parnassum".

He teaches at orchestra camps for children and young people and is a judge at audition seminars and brass rehearsals in the Wiener Musikschulwerk (Vienna music school association).

He has been principal flute with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 1999.

Aleksandra Pleterski began her education in Slovenia before enrolling at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna where she studied with Hansgeorg Schmeiser, later moving to the Paris Conservatoire to study with Philippe Bernold. She has been a prizewinner at the Krakow International Flute Competition in 2017. She was a guest player at the Wiener Kammeroper and the Wiener Kammerorchester and was a regular substitute on 2. Flute and Piccolo at the Vienna Volksoper. She was also a guest player at the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra playing 1. Flute. She has appeared as a concerto soloist with the Collegium Musicum der MDW and Krakow Academy Chamber Orchestra. Since August 2022 she is playing 2. Flute and Piccolo in the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Ursula Pichler-Nikolov was born in Vienna in 1983.

She completed her studies with Wolfgang Schulz at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, with Andrea Lieberknecht at the Hanover University of Music and Drama and with Michael Martin Kofler at the University Mozarteum Salzburg. She passed her diploma exams with distinction.

She gained further artistic experience in master classes with Emmanuel Pahud, Philippe Bernold, Karl-Heinz Schütz, Davide Formisano and Jean-Claude Gerard. The multiple national winner of "Prima la musica" became 1st prize winner of the 1998 international competition "Concours Europeen" in Moulins/France, received 2nd prize in the national competition "Gradus ad parnassum" in 2002 and won the selection competition "Musica Juventutis" in the Vienna Konzerthaus in 2004.
During her studies, Ursula Pichler-Nikolov was a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra (2004-2007) and held temporary contracts as principal flutist with the Philharmonic Orchestra Hagen (2007) and the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn (2008 and 2010). From 2014 to 2015, she received a temporary contract on piccolo / 2nd flute with the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria, before being engaged as 2nd flutist with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra for one year in 2016.

Regular substitute engagements have also taken her to the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin, the Vienna Volksoper, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg and the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra.
Chamber music performances have included the "Encuentro de musica y Academia de Santander" Festival and the Zermatt Festival. In October 2019 Ursula Pichler-Nikolov taught Piccolo at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Since 2019 she is engaged as solo piccoloist with the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna.
From January to September 2022 Ursula Pichler-Nikolov taught Piccolo at the Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität Linz.
Since September 2023 Ursula Pichler-Nikolov is teaching Piccolo at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna.

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.

Pedro Minhava Reis was born in 1998 in Montalegre, Portugal, where he received his first clarinet lessons at the age of twelve in the local band Banda Musical de Parafita. For his musical education, he went to Guimarães in 2013 to the Academia Valentim Moreira de Sá with Vítor Matos. In 2016 he came to Austria for concert studies with Johann Hindler and Christoph Zimper at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (MDW). His major field of study was New Music, and he passed the 1st diploma exam with distinction.

Minhava Reis also took several master classes, including with Alessandro Carbonare, Luis Silva, François Benda, Matthias Schorn and Tibor Reman. He has played as a substitute with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Webern Ensemble Vienna, the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vienna State Opera, not least on numerous concert tours that have taken him throughout Europe and to Asia.

In addition, Minhava Reis took part in several Austrian and international competitions, receiving the 2nd prize of the "Czech Clarinet Art" in 2013, the 2nd prize of the "Concorso Internaziole Marco Fiorindo" in 2014, the 2nd prize of the "Grand Prize Virtuoso Vienna" in 2016 and winning the prize of the hmdw-SolistenKammerOrchester in 2019.

In 2019 he was engaged by the Stadttheater Klagenfurt for the 2nd clarinet and played there until 2021, when he won the audition for the solo clarinet of the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna in June.

Johannes Gleichweit, born in 1966 in Hartberg in Styria, Austria, began clarinet lessons aged eleven with Prof. Josef Pöttler at Pöllau music school.

In 1984 he began studying with Prof. G. Schönfeldinger at the Oberschützen Institute of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, before switching to the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna where he continued his studies with Prof. Peter Schmidl, Prof. Johann Hindler and Prof. Ernst Ottensamer. In 1992 he qualified as a teacher and in 1995 passed his diploma examination in concert clarinet.

He performs both as a soloist and a chamber musician and is a member of several ensembles such as the ensemble “die reihe” and Kontrapunkte.

He has been a member of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 1996 as assistant principal clarinet.

Martin Fluch was born in Waidhofen an der Ybbs in Lower Austria in 1976.

He studied concert clarinet with Reinhard Wieser at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna and Peter Schmidl at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He also studied as an instrument and singing teacher with Gerald Pachinger at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.

From 2004 he was under contract at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt and the Kärntner Symphonieorchester as solo clarinettist. He has been a substitute in the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. During his career as a musician, Martin Fluch has travelled around America, Asia and Europe.

He has been a member of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2005.

Thomas Obermüller, born in Linz in 1972, studied at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz with Prof. Karl Maria Kubizek and Prof. Gerald Kraxberger. He then went on to study concert clarinet with Prof. Horst Hajek and Prof. Peter Schmidl at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. In 1998 he graduated with distinction.

While still a student he was a substitute in the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, and at the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Volksoper. From 1994 to 1997 he was a member and scholarship holder of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester. Today he regularly performs with the ensembles Kontrapunkte and “die reihe” and is also a founder member of the clarinet trio Clarinettissimo.

From 1993 to 1995 he taught at the regional music school in Rohrbach, Upper Austria, and from 1997 to 1999 at the music schools in Pöchlarn und Pöggstall in Lower Austria.

He has played bass clarinet with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 1999.

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.

Péter Keserű was born in Kiskunfélegyháza, Hungary in 1977.

He received his first horn lessons from Ferenc Jankovszki in 1986 at the local music school and later continued his training at the Zoltán Kodály middle school for music in Kecskemét with István Szilágyi. From 1995 to 2001 he studied with Prof. Miklós Kökényessy at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest. After this he took regular private tuition with Prof. István Vincze in Dresden.

In 1999 he was accepted into the Ernö Dohnányi Orchestra in Budapest as principal horn, a position he also held in the Budapest Concert Orchestra from 2000. From 2002 to 2003 he was principal horn with the Hungarian Symphony Orchestra Budapest and held the same position in the Bruckner Orchestra in Linz under principal conductor Dennis Russell Davies until 2008. Since 2001 he has regularly assisted in the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Iván Fischer.

Péter Keserű has been principal horn with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2008.

Peter Erdei was born in Debrecen, Hungary in 1975. He received his diploma in Budapest in 1999 from the Franz Liszt Music Academy having studied with Ferenc Tarjani.

His first engagement as a professional musician was at the State Opera in Budapest. He has won several national and international prizes in horn competitions. He has worked with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Lorin Maazel, Sir John Elliot Gardiner and Daniele Gatti.

Peter Erdei has played ripieno horn with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2000.

Jakob Hutterer, born 1996 in Ebersberg had his first music lessons with Peter Pfaff at the local music school. He did his Bachelor's degree in Würzburg with Wolfgang Gaag and Sibylle Mahni andcis currently completing his master's degree in Berlin.
He gained his first professional experience during an academy at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg and the Nuremberg State Philharmonic. This was followed by temporary contracts in the orchestra of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich and the Staatskapelle Dresden.
He played under Christian Thielemann, Daniele Gatti, Daniel Harding, Zubin Mehta and Kirill Petrenko.
Since February 2023 he is playing as deputy principal horn in the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Luise Bruch was born in Frankfurt (Oder) in 1988, where she also received her first horn lessons. She moved to the Berlin University of the Arts in 2004 to study with Prof. Christian-Friedrich Dallmann; she continued her studies later with Prof. Robert Langbein and Prof. Raimund Zell in Dresden and Graz.

Luise Bruch has participated in numerous competitions, with reaching the finals of the 2010 ARD International Music Competition and being awarded the U21 Special Prize among her greatest achievements.
In addition to various temporary contracts, for example in the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg and the Royal Opera Stockholm, Luise Bruch has been a regular guest with, among others, the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, as well as various chamber orchestras such as the Munich Chamber Orchestra and the German Chamber Orchestra.

Since 2017, she has been deputy principal horn in the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna.

Matthias Rieß was born in Stuttgart in 1983 and studied with Prof. Thomas Hauschild in Leipzig, Prof. Erich Penzel in Maastricht, Prof. Marie-Luise Neunecker in Berlin and Prof. Gergely Sugar in Oberschützen.

He gained his first experience of orchestral playing in the regional and national youth orchestras as well as the Schleswig-Holstein festival orchestra. This was followed by engagements with the State Orchestra of Lower Saxony in Hanover and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin.

Since 2009 Matthias Rieß has been playing second and fourth horn in the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Johann Plank, born in Leoben, Austria in 1961, started learning the trumpet with Otto Pole and Prof. Fritz Mischlinger. From 1976 to 1982 he studied trumpet at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz with Prof. Hans Meister.

He performs in Austria and abroad as both a soloist and a chamber musician.

Since 2012 he has held the chair at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Prior to that, he taught at both the Zawinul music school in Gumpoldskirchen and the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna.

He has been principal trumpet with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 1982.

Christian Hollensteiner, born in Graz in 1985, received his first trumpet lessons from his father, Johann Hollensteiner, at the age of eight. From 2000 to 2001 he was taught trumpet by Prof. Kinder and Prof. Jud at the Graz Conservatory, and from 2001 to 2006 he studied with Prof. Uwe Koller at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. He attended master classes given by Hans Gansch, Matthias Höfs, Martin Angerer, Hannes Läubin, Bobby Shew and Allen Vizzutti.

As a substitute he has played with the Konzertgebouworchester Amsterdam, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Vienna State Opera, the Graz Opera and the Grazer Symphoniker and has taken part in numerous orchestra courses (Schleswig Holstein Festival orchestra, Bayreuth Festival orchestra, Wiener Jeunesse Orchester).

Besides his work in various ensembles such as Vienna Brass Connection, the Brassband Oberösterreich, the ensemble „die reihe“ and Kontrapunkte, he also performs as a soloist.

He won first prize at the 2009 Intermusica Soloists’ Competition. In 2009 and 2010 the Brassband Oberösterreich was awarded the Best Soprano Cornet prize, and in 2011 he received the same award with the Cory Brassband.

From 2002 to 2004 he worked as a teacher at the music school in Kumberg, and since 2006 has regularly given private tuition and has taught at a wide variety of brass workshops.

Christian Hollensteiner has been 1st / 3rd trumpet with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since April 2006.

Franz Tösch was born in Bruck an der Mur, Austria in 1967. He received his first trumpet lessons at the age of ten.

He studied with Hans Meister, Stanko Arnold and Hans Peter Schuh at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and Oberschützen.

While still at university he was a member of the Wiener Jeunesse Orchester and the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester under Claudio Abbado. He was also a substitute in the Grazer Philharmonisches Orchester, the Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Philharmonic. He is a member of the ensemble 11.

Since 1995 he has been teaching at the Oberschützen Institute of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and since 2007 at the music school in Neunkirchen.

He has been with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 1993.

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.

Rainer Huss was engaged by the Vienna RSO in November 1993 as principal wind Player under Pinchas Steinberg.

Josef Gumpinger was born in Upper Austria in 1968 and began taking percussion lessons at the age of nine. He studied at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz where in 1990 he obtained the state teaching qualification and passed his diploma examination in concert performance with distinction.

In 1998 he was accepted into the Bruckner Orchestra as a percussionist. He performs in numerous ensembles and orchestras as a soloist (with conductors such as Franz Welser-Möst, Michael Gielen, Friedrich Cerha, Kurt Schwertsik and Heinz Karl Gruber). Additionally, he has made a name for himself as a chamber musician in ensembles such as the ensemble “die reihe”, Kontrapunkte and the Wiener Concert Verein. Together with Prof. Gerhard Windbacher he founded the percussion ensemble Supercussion Vienna which has premiered many works by leading composers.

From 1999 to 2011 Josef Gumpinger held two percussion classes at the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz and the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna. Since the autumn of 2011 he has held the chair in classical percussion at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Many of his students have won prestigious prizes and have been accepted by leading orchestras such as the Graz Opera Orchestra, Landestheater Klagenfurt, the Volksoper Vienna, the RSO Vienna and the Vienna Philharmonic.

Since 1993 he has been a percussionist and since 2009 timpani leader with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Wolfgang Nagl - born in Ried im Innkreis - attended the music high school in Linz and began his studies at the Anton Bruckner Private University, which he completed with distinction at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in 2020. Professionally, he gained experience in various orchestras and orchestral ensembles before he was temporarily engaged by the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra in 2018 and subsequently by the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. After winning auditions, he became a permanent member of the Vienna RSO in 2022. Furthermore, as a studio musician, he was instrumental in recording percussion sounds for the Vienna Symphonic Library database.
In addition to his musical interests, he is also active in instrument making - and there especially in the production of natural membranes for percussion instruments - and also devotes himself to this passion in a scientific capacity. One of the highlights of his career was a trip to the USA to the "Acoustical Society of America" where, as a representative of the "Department of Music Acoustics (IWK)", he presented his research results in the field of Viennese sound. His resulting diploma thesis "Humidity influence on natural drumheads" was awarded by the Austrian Acoustics Association.

Patrick Prammer was born in Kirchdorf an der Krems in Upper Austria in 1987. He began his studies in classical percussion at the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz with Prof. Josef Gumpinger and Prof. Bogdan Bacanu in 2004, before moving to the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna in 2007 and subsequently the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna where he continued his studies with Prof. Josef Gumpinger. He attended master classes given by Tom Freer, Peter Sadlo, Michael Quinn, Bogdan Bacanu, Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic, David Freeman and Gerald Fromme.

In 2009 he won first prize in the Fidelio Competition in Vienna.

In the realm of chamber music he plays in ensembles including “die reihe”, Kontrapunkte, Klangforum Wien and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra with Heinrich Schiff and Stefan Vladar. He also performs with the orchestra of the Vienna Opera Ball. He was involved in founding Vienna Brass Connection and is a member of Vienna Horns and Supercussion Vienna.

As a soloist he plays with the Vienna RSO, the Upper Austrian regional concert band and the ensemble “die reihe”.

He has also had tenures with the Tonkünstler Orchestra in Lower Austria, the Vienna Volksoper and the Grazer Philharmonisches Orchester at the Graz Opera. As a substitute he played in concerts with the Cleveland Orchestra, at the Vienna State Opera, with the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg under Franz Welser Möst and worked with conductors such as Cornelius Meister, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Ingo Metzmacher, Daniel Harding, Kirill Petrenko, Dmitri Kitayenko and Tugan Sokhiev.

He has been a percussionist with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2011.

Georg Hasibeder studied classical percussion with Professor Josef Gumpinger, Nebojsa Zivkovic and Anton Mittermayr at the Conservatory of the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna (KWPU) and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw), graduating in 2013 with distinction.

He plays contemporary music in various ensembles and interprets works in direct cooperation with composers such as Zender, Shih, Cerha, Neuwirth, Lang, Haas, Waldek and Jungwirth.
His interest in early music originates from studies at the department of that name at the KWPU. Subsequently he played as a guest with La Cetra baroque orchestra on a production at the municipal theatre in Basel, Switzerland, and in specialist ensembles such as the Perutz Trio.
He works with the ensembles Vienna Brass Connection and Supercussion Vienna as a percussionist and member of the organisational team.

Georg Hasibeder has had temporary contracts with several Viennese orchestras, as a timpanist with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vienna RSO with whom he has been under contract as a percussionist since 2017.

Anna Verkholantseva completed her studies with the legendary Vera Dulova at the Moscow Conservatory. After winning 1st prize at the Moscow International Harp Competition, solo engagements followed in various concert halls such as Wigmore Hall (London), Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, Victoria Hall (Geneva), Chicago Symphony Center, San Francisco Herbst Theatre.

She has made regular solo appearances with various orchestras such as the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, the RSO Vienna, the Estonian State Symphony Orchestra. Anna Verkholantseva has won numerous national and international competitions and regularly gives master classes at Trinity College, the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, among others.

Since 2003 she has been principal harpist of the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna.