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Wenzel Fuchs comes from a region
where traditional wind music is highly valued.
The Innsbruck native, scion of a musical family, was
already playing the clarinet as a child in various wind
ensembles.
After first studying in Kitzbühel and Innsbruck, he went
to the Vienna Musikhochschule, where he had the
opportunity of playing as a substitute with the Wiener
Philharmoniker.
He began his professional career as
principal clarinettist of the Vienna Volksoper, then
moving to the Austrian Radio (ORF) Symphony Orchestra
and in 1993 to the Berliner Philharmoniker. |
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In addition to his work in the
orchestra, Fuchs is active as a soloist and chamber
player in, among other groups, the Philharmonic Wind
Ensemble, Philharmonic Wind Soloists, Philharmonic Octet
and the Philharmonic Friends of Vienna-Berlin.
He also teaches in the Berliner
Philharmoniker’s Orchestra Academy, held a professorship
at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" Berlin (from
autumn 2008 to summer 2012), a visiting professorship at
Sakuyou Music University in Okayama, Japan and an
honorary professorship at the Shanghai Conservatory, and
he gives master classes all over the world.
Wenzel Fuchs enjoys skiing and
likes most of all to spend his free time with his
family. |
