VIOLA
Prof. Hans Peter Ochsenhofer (Wiener Philharmoniker a.D.)
Jul 21 - 27, 2025
Piano: Wakana Katsumoto (Jul 24-27)
Fee
€ 470 (€ 120 application fee, € 350 course fee)
Optional supplementary package
€ 580
The supplementary package covers
Full board at Gasthaus Moser
Accommodation at Gasthaus Moser or Frühstückspension Mariahilfberg from Jul 21 till Jul 28
Transfer (Vienna Hilton or airport to Gutenstein and back): Transfer shuttles are only available between 9am and 8pm, please book your flight accordingly!!! Shuttles outside of shuttle times are chargeable with € per shuttle!
All shuttles and transports in and around Gutenstein will be provided for you twice a day for free between 9am – 8pm, except Monday Jul 21 (welcome dinner!) between 9 a.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Please book the supplementary package till May 30!
The application-and course fee is NOT included in the package and must be payed EXTRA!
Application deadline
Jul 12, 2025 (provided there are still free places)
Cancellation conditions
In the event of cancellation for whatever reason, the course fee will be refunded till Jul 16, later only if you can provide a substitute participant! Once you have completed the registration process, the registration fee will no longer be refunded!
General shuttle options !!!
Shuttles within Gutenstein and the surrounding area from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. are free twice a day. Shuttles outside of shuttle times must be registered 2 days in advance and are subject to a charge of € 13 per shuttle. Shuttles to Vienna or the airport are also subject to a charge (exception: participants with a supplementary package) and must be registered at the first day of masterclass!!!: € 40 per shuttle.
Program
First meeting: Monday, Jul 21, 11 a.m. at the Meierhof Gutenstein, Markt 2, 2770 Gutenstein (introducing of applicants, schedule of classes, house rules) All lessons for the Masterclass Viola will be generally held at the Refektorium Servitenkloster Mariahilfberg. Shuttles will be provided from 9a.m. to 8p.m.
Thursday evening, Jul 24, 2025: Dinner invitation for all students of the Masterclass Viola, 6:30 p.m. at the Gasthaus Moser (changes will be announced in time!)
Prof. Ochsenhofer will work every day with every single applicant for about 45-50 minutes.
Thursday 24 – Sunday 27: During class you will be accompanied by our pianist.
If you want to perform a trio (voice, piano and viola), please let us know: office@meisterklassen-gutenstein.at. We are very much interested in interactions between the voice and viola class!
Sunday, Jul 27, 2025:
11:00 a.m.: Sunday mass at Mariahilfberg: students of the Masterclass Viola will perform 2-3 pieces.
At the stagepiano: N.N.Sunday, Jul 27, 2025:
at about 1:30 p.m.: General rehearsal for the viola class, Refektorium Servitenkloster Mariahilfberg (changes will be announced in time!)
4 p.m.: Concert of the viola class at the Refektorium Servitenkloster Mariahilfberg (Shuttles will be provided to and from Mariahilfberg!)
After the concert drinks and snacks for everyone at the Servitenkloster.
About Prof. Hans Peter Ochsenhofer
Mr. Ochsenhofer was born on 13 January 1948 in Graz (Austria).
He received his first musical education in Oberschützen (part of the University of Music in Graz - violin, trumpet). Then he studied violin with Prof. Franz Samohyl at the University of Music in Vienna.
1971 violinist in the VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
1975 changing to the viola section within the orchestra (2nd solo-viola)
1977 graduated with honours (viola) with Prof. Siegfried Führlinger
1977 successful audition for the orchestra of the VIENNA STATE OPERA
1978 leader of the viola-section
1980 member of the VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
He was also a member of the WIENER VIRTUOSEN 1989-1999.
Since 1999 he is member of the VIENNA STRING QUARTETT.
Many tours, TV-shows as well as CD-recordings with these ensembles made him well known in Europe and overseas.
1983 he was invited to teach as professor at the Conservatory of Vienna.
1993 he became o. Univ. Prof. for viola at the University of Music in Vienna.
Many of his students succeeded in auditions for many renowned orchestras like the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (10 players), Vienna Symphony (7 players and solo viola), RSO (2) , NTO (5), Staatskapelle Dresden (1), Mozarteum Orchestra, Wiener Volksoper, Bruckner Orchester Linz (2 solo violas), Kopenhagen Radio, Oslo philharmonic, etc.
Encouraged by the acclaim of well known conductors as Michael Tilson Thomas he worked as a conductor and orchestra educator in USA (American Orchestra Institut, New World Symphony Orchestra), in Japan PMF (founded by Leonard Bernstein), in Austria at the Attergau Institute, Gustav Mahler Orchestra, etc.
His Vienna-debut as a conductor took place in December 2005. This concert was the opening event of the Mozart Year in the series “Zusammenklaenge“ with “WIENER MOZARTISTEN” (members of the Vienna Philharmonic), an orchestra he has founded one year before.
Concerts (also broadcasted on TV) in Austria (Vienna Musikverein), Greece, Germany and Japan.
3 CDs produced by Camerata Tokyo have been released.
Besides in concerts with Wiener Mozartisten Ochsenhofer appeared as conductor in Sofia at the SOFIA MUSIC FESTIVAL (including TV broadcast), repeatedly in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv with the YOUNG ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC (Haydn Symphony Nr. 83 and Tschaikovsky Symphony Nr. 5, Dvorak 7th Symphony and Hindemith Symphonische Metamorphosen), in several concerts with the "Orchestra Academy Ossiach" (a project supported by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra) and concerts in Japan with Gunma Symphony and the Kusatsu Festival Orchestra.