Successes at 2026 auditions

 

• Horvat Lucija - flute
  (student of Walter Auer)
  has won the Grafenegg Academy audition.

 

• Unuk Brina - flute
  (student of Wally Hase)
  has won the audition for the Yamaha Music Europe Foundation 2025/26 flute scholarship in Austria.

 

• Božek Niko - tuba
  (student of Michael Pircher)
  is a member of the North German Youth Philharmonic Orchestra.

 

• Münzker Maximilian - tuba
  (student of Michael Pircher)
  will become an academician in the after successfully auditioning.

 

• Hofbauer David - tuba
  (student of Michael Pircher)
  has won the audition for the Orchestra Academy of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich (Hermann Levi Academy) and has been accepted there as an academician.

 

• Senoner Filip - tuba
  (student of Michael Pircher)
  has won the audition for the European Union Youth Orchestra (EUYO).

 

• Simon Unseld – tuba
  (former student of Michael Pircher)
  has won the audition for a position in the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra. He will begin his position with the orchestra in March 2026.

 

• Winter Anna - flute
  (student of Wally Hase - piccolo with Renate Linortner)
  has once again won the audition for the European Union Youth Orchestra (EUYO) and will be a member of the orchestra in 2026.

 

• Unuk Brina - flute
  (student of Wally Hase - piccolo with Renate Linortner)
  has won the audition for solo flute with the Kiel Philharmonic Orchestra / Kiel Theatre.

 

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Award winners 2026

 

• Unuk Brina - flute
  (student of Wally Hase)
  won first prize at the 2nd International Chamber Music Competition Ferdinand Rebay with her guitar duo partner Kamil Aniol.

 

• Varga Brina - flute
  (student of Wally Hase)
  won second prize at the 2nd International Chamber Music Competition Ferdinand Rebay with her guitar duo partner Ayaka Mukaiyama.

 

• Jenewein Mathias and Hofbauer David - tuba
  (students of Michael Pircher)
  were selected for the semifinals and finals of the 2025 Werner Pirchner Prize in Innsbruck.