Wenzel Fuchs

Wenzel Fuchs (born 1963 in Innsbruck, Austria[1]) is an Austrian clarinetist.

He studied clarinet at the Innsbruck Conservatory with Walter Kefer and at the Vienna Music Academy with Peter Schmidl.[2][3] He has performed with the Vienna State Opera, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Volksoper, and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.[2]

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,[3] and was appointed solo clarinetist of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in 1993.[2]

Wenzel Fuchs holds a professorship at the "Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler", Berlin, since October 2008[1] and teaches in the Berliner Philharmoniker’s Orchestra Academy. He has been a guest professor at Sakuyou Music University in Okayama, Japan[2] holds an honorary professorship at the Shanghai Conservatory, and gives master classes all over the world.[1]

Fuchs is a member of the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Soloists ensemble,[4] the Berlin Philharmonic Octet ensemble,[5] the Philarmonische Freunde Wien-Berlin ensemble,[6] Berliner Philarmonisches Bläserensemble,[7] the Metropolis Ensemble, and the Super World Orchestra.[2]

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".[3]