WOLFGANG SENGSTSCHMID

After WOLFGANG SENGSTSCHMID’s New York recital debut in March 1999, the producer of the latter Horowitz recordings and currently Senior Executive Producer at SONY Classical, Thomas Frost, made the written comment “Mr. Wolfgang Sengstschmid deserves to have a significant international concert and recording career.” Six months later Wolfgang Sengstschmid played Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with The New York Virtuosi Chamber Symphony conducted by Kenneth Klein in the Great Assembly Hall of the United Nations in New York City.

At the age of eight, he was admitted to the Musikhochschule in Vienna. There he studied for many years with Rainer Kuechl, the concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. During that time he won the competition sponsored by the Foundation Stefanie Hohl at the Vienna University of Music, as well as prizes at the “Kulenkampff” International Violin Competition in Cologne, Germany and the International Music Competition in Pretoria, South Africa. Later he continued his studies at the Berne Conservatory with Igor Ozim and with Yfrah Neaman at the Guildhall School of Music in London.

Since 1998, Mr. Sengstschmid has been performing on a Joseph Guarneri del Gesu, Cremona (1731) given as a loan by the Austrian National Bank.

In 1991, he performed with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra in the Musikverein Hall, as well as throughout his native country and much of Europe. His tours have taken him to the USA, South Korea, India, Turkey, Egypt, Israel, and Russia. Among his appearances as soloist have been the Tonkuenstler Orchestra Vienna, the Berne Symphony Orchestra, the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sofia Opera Orchestra and the Kiev Chamber Orchestra.

Mr. Sengstschmid has been an instructor at his Alma Mater, the Musikhochschule of Vienna since 1998.

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