Prof. Alexander Neubauer

Born in 1976 in Wagna, southern Styria (Austria). Alexander Neubauer had his first music lesson on the Styrian accordion at the age of five and started having clarinet lessons from the age of nine.

He studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna under Peter Schmidl, Johann Hindler and Gerald Pachinger. Since June 1999 he has been a member of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.

He has given concerts in Vienna and on tour with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Chamber Philharmonic, the Vienna Classical Players and with Recreation – Großes Orchestra Graz among others. As a soloist he has performed with the Wiener Concert-Verein, the Junge Philharmonie Wien, the Györ Philharmonic and the Tyrolean chamber ensemble InnStrumenti. He has played in chamber music concerts with the EOS Quartet, the Hugo Wolf Quartet, the Rodin Quartet and the Szymanowski Quartet among others, as well as with the pianists Christopher Hinterhuber, Cornelia Herrmann, Rico Gulda, Eduard & Johannes Kutrowatz, Markus Schirmer, the accordionist Andrey Serkov and the violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja at festivals and concerts in Austria and abroad.

He is a member of the 20th Century Ensemble, Ensemble EIS, Triple Tongue Vienna, Pegasos Trio, freihaus4telQuartet, qWIENtett and the crossover band Faltenradio.

He gives many master classes in Europa (such as at the 17th International Summer Academy Prague-Vienna-Budapest and at the Bläserurlaub in Bad Goisern, Austria) and Japan. 2009-2013 he was a university assistant in Peter Schmidl’s class at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and since 2013 he is a Professor at the Konservatorium Vienna University.