SOPRANO

Martina Stückler

Martina, born in 1990 in Wolfsberg, Carinthia discovered her passion for the saxophone at the age of nine. She gratuated her studies of classical saxophone and musical education at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with her teachers Oto Vhrovnik and Barbara Strack-Hanisch and at the ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, with Johan van der Linden, with honors. In 2019 she became assistant professor at the MDW and was as well employed as a teacher at Johann Sebastian Bach Music School Vienna.

Martina achieved a lot of awards in several competitions as for example Allegro Vivo, International Music Competition Svirel, Grachtenfestival Amsterdam, Alpen-Adria Competition and Rising Stars Grand Prix Berlin, where she had the honour to perform at the Philharmonie Berlin. As a soloist and as an orchestral musician Martina performed with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Carpe Diem Synfonieorkest, Riga Chamber Winds and others. Besides these, Martina frequently joins the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Wiener Symphoniker and the Radio-Symphonie Orchester Wien.

ALTO

Johannes Weichinger

Johannes was born in 1994 in Lower Austria near to Vienna. At the age of six he started to play the piano but soon switched to learn the saxophone. 2013 he started studying classical saxophone at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with his teachers Oto Vrhovnik, Barbara Strack-Hanisch and Michaela Reingruber. Since 2015 he also studies jazz saxophone with Klaus Dickbauer and Clemens Salesny. Both studies he graduated with honors.

Johannes teaches music at a school for special needs education and also teaches saxophone and clarinet at a music education center. He achieved several awards in competitions as for example Prima la Musica and participates as a soloist in orchestras, ensembles, big bands, quartets etc. and did many CD-, radio- and TV-recordings. Furthermore Johannes plays in the Austrian bands Die Ranzler and Die MusikKanten.

TENOR

Viola Jank

Viola, born in 1996 in Lower Austria was eight years old when she began taking piano lessons. At the age of ten she started to play the saxophone. Since 2014 she studied classical saxophone with Barbara Strack-Hanisch at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, as well as the additional studies for music education. In both she graduated with honors in 2020 and 2022. Furthermore, Viola studies Biology at the University of Vienna.
Viola has achieved several winning awards at competitions as Prima la Musica, Allegro Vivo, Musica Juventutis and others. As a soloist, as well as an orchestral musician Viola played with the Tonkünstler Orchester Niederösterreich, the Orchestra Academy of the International Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Wiener Symphoniker and many other chamber ensembles.

BARITONE

Lukas Seifried

Lukas was born in 1990 in Austria’s capital city, Vienna. He got in touch with music ever since his early childhood and started playing the saxophone when he was ten years old. Lukas studied musicology at the University of Vienna and graduated with honors in 2012. In 2013 he started studying classical saxophone at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Barbara Strack-Hanisch which he graduated with honors in 2020. Furthermore, he graduated his studies for music education with honors in 2019.
Lukas works as a music educator and saxophone teacher in varied ways and plays in various ensembles and orchestras, for example the Tonkünstler Orchester Niederösterreich, the Akademischen Bläserphilharmonie Wien, the Wiener Orchesterverein and others. Furthermore, he is engaged in Carinthian and Viennese folk music and is active as a Viennese Schrammelharmonika player. Alongside playing music he addresses himself to the musicological task as he works at the Arnold Schönberg Center Vienna.