Best of Strings & Winds 2026
with prize-winners of the Leonard Bernstein Competition, as well as the Stefanie Hall Competition and FKI institute-internal selection audition
June 19th, 2026
The "Best of" concert of the Fritz Kreisler Institute for Concert String Instruments, Guitar and Harp and the Leonard Bernstein Institute for Concert Wind and Percussion Instruments features those students who have performed excellently in either the FKI selection audition or the LBI competition. The concert is a highlight of the 2023/24 academic year, when the most outstanding students from the two institutes present various instrument groups.
The concert will be streamed live.
Here you can find the concert programme:
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Some impressions from the Best Of Concert on the 23nd of May 2024
Isabella Schwarz, oboe & Natalia Rehling, piano
Danijel Živojinović, saxophone & Yoko Nakagawa, piano
Presentation of the Yamaha Awards by Jakob Egger to Danijel Živojinović, Christoph Propst, Ivona Dominik, and Hiroshi Oyama
Presentation of the Yamaha Awards by Jakob Egger to Danijel Živojinović, Christoph Propst, Ivona Dominik, and Hiroshi Oyama
Presentation of the certificate of appreciation from the Leonard Bernstein Institute by Institute Director Prof. Michael Pircher to Jakob Egger / Yamaha Corporation
Presentation of the certificate of appreciation from the Leonard Bernstein Institute by Institute Director Prof. Michael Pircher to Kurt Schmid for sponsoring the Jettel Award
Presentation of the certificate of appreciation from the Leonard Bernstein Institute to Sara Francini / Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria with the award winners Isabella Schwarz, Joe Michael Baran, and Filip Senoner
Katharina Runggatscher, clarinet & Herbert Rüdisser, piano
Best of Institut 5 & 6 2024
23rd of May 2024
Joseph Haydn-Saal, mdw
is now available in the mdw media library.