Wenzel Maria Fuchs[1] (born 1963 in Innsbruck, Austria[2]) is an Austrian clarinetist.
He studied clarinet at the Innsbruck Conservatory with Walter Kefer and at the Vienna Music Academy with Peter Schmidl.[3][4] He has performed with the Vienna State Opera, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Volksoper, and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.[3]
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,[4] and was appointed solo clarinetist of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in 1993.[3]
Wenzel Fuchs holds a professorship at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, since October 2008[2] and teaches in the Berliner Philharmoniker’s Orchestra Academy. He has been a guest professor at Sakuyou Music University in Okayama, Japan[3] holds an honorary professorship at the Shanghai Conservatory, and gives master classes all over the world.[2]
Fuchs is a member of the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Soloists ensemble,[5] the Berlin Philharmonic Octet ensemble,[6] the Philarmonische Freunde Wien-Berlin ensemble,[7] Berliner Philarmonisches Bläserensemble,[8] the Metropolis Ensemble, and the Super World Orchestra.[3]
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".[4]
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