Master Class

Johannes Wildner

Johannes Wildner studied conducting, violin and musicology and has established himself as one of the foremost Austrian conductors. His years of experience as a member of the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna State Opera Orchestra have given his conducting a distinctive stamp. After positions as Chief Conductor of Prague
State Opera and First Permanent Conductor of Leipzig Opera, Johannes Wildner was the General Music Director of the New Philharmonic Orchestra of Westphalia (Germany) for ten years from 1997. He served as Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra in London from 2010-2014. From 2014 he has also been the Director of the Austrian Opera Festival OPER BURG GARS and was appointed Professor of Conducting at the Vienna University of Music with effect of October 1st, 2014. He has regularly appeared as a guest conductor in major opera houses such as the Tokyo New National Theatre, the Teatro Carlo Felice Genova, the Arena di Verona, Leipzig, Graz, Salzburg, Prague and Zagreb State Opera, and with orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London,
the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana in Palermo, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Tokyo Philharmonic, the MDR Symphony, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Bergen Philharmonic, the China Philharmonic, the Hong Kong Philharmonic and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. Johannes Wildner has recorded over 100 CDs, DVDs and videos, including the integral versions of Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus and Mozart’s Cosí fan tutte, recordings of Carmen and Nozze di Figaro, Bruckner’s Third and Ninth Symphonies, and three CDs of previously unknown repertoire by Zeisl, Marx and David, Robert Schumann‘s complete works for piano and orchestra, with pianist Lev Vinocour and the RSO Vienna, Beethoven violin concerto (soloist: Alexandre Da Costa) and Beethoven’s 7th Symphony with Taipei Symphony Orchestra, as well as works by forgotten composers like D‘Erlanger and Braunfels with the BBC Concert Orchestra.

Languages: German, English

Assistance: Roman Mogilevskiy

Roman Mogilevskiy was born in Russia into a family of professional musicians. With a pianist as his mother and a conductor's professor as his uncle his path was set at a young age. He has been living in Austria since 2009 and studied orchestral conducting at the Prayner Conservatoire in Vienna under Prof. Maximilian Cencic, from which he graduated with distinction. He was first-place prizewinner at both the Wiener Musikseminar conducting competition and the orchestra evaluation by the Savaria Symphony Orchestra, Hungary. From 2013 onward he has been studying under his mentor Kurt Schmid, shaping his typical (Viennese) conducting style. Furthermore, Roman Mogilevskiy has been regularly conducting Kurt Schmid’s oratorio "Ode to life" with the Savaria Symphony Orchestra since 2014. In 2019 he celebrated considerable success with the Hofburg Orchestra, performing in concerts, among others, at the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Konzerthaus.