Wenzel Fuchs (born 1963 in

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. He studied

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at the Innsbruck Conservatory with Walter Kefer and at the

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with

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. He has performed with the

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, the

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, the

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, and the

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. Fuchs became clarinet soloist of the Vienna Volksoper at the age of 19 and five years later solo clarinetist of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, and was appointed solo clarinetist of the

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in 1993. Wenzel Fuchs holds a professorship at the

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, since October 2008 and teaches in the Berliner Philharmoniker’s Orchestra Academy. He has been a guest professor at Sakuyou Music University in

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holds an honorary professorship at the Shanghai Conservatory, and gives master classes all over the world. Fuchs is a member of the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Soloists ensemble, the Berlin Philharmonic Octet ensemble, the Philarmonische Freunde Wien-Berlin ensemble, Berliner Philarmonisches Bläserensemble, the Metropolis Ensemble, and the Super World Orchestra. Wenzel Fuchs has been awarded a Prize of the Austrian Ministry for Science and Art and several prizes in the German national youth competition "Jugend musiziert".

Discography

*''Martinu, Nielsen, Koechlin: Serenade'', with the Baborák Ensemble. Supraphon SU 3998-2, June 2009. *''Reger: Clarinet Quintet, Op. 146 and String Quartet, Op. 109'', with the Berlin Philarmonia Quartet. NAXOS, 8.554510, 2001.

References

1963 births Austrian clarinetists Austrian male musicians Living people Players of the Berlin Philharmonic Academic staff of the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin 21st-century clarinetists {{Clarinetist-stub