Wilfried
Brandstötter

Wilfried Brandstötter was born in Salzburg in 1970 and studied bass tuba as a concert subject at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Prof. Klaus Schafferer.

His artistic career to date has been characterised by a wide stylistic range.  From 1995 to 2000 he was the permanent tuba player of the Klangforum Wien and participated in many world premieres and Austrian premieres. From 1998 he worked for ten years as a musician at the Burgtheater and the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna and appeared on stage in numerous productions. From 2000 to 2004 he was principal tuba in the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria.

As a founding member, he has played around 2500 concerts with the ensemble Mnozil Brass at the most renowned venues worldwide from 1992 until today. In the process, about 20 stage programmes have been realised, exemplified by the planning and realisation of the following projects:

The first operetta of the 21st century "The Trojan Boat" for the Ruhrtriennale 2005, premiered in the Jahrhunderthalle Bochum, with further stages at the Akademietheater and the Burgtheater in Vienna, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, among others.

The opera "Irmingard", premiered at the Salzburg Festival in 2008, with further stages at the Burgtheater in Vienna, the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and the Berliner Ensemble with Claus Peymann, among others.

"Hojotoho", a work commissioned by the city of Bayreuth, with which the anniversary year marking the 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner's birth was opened in Bayreuth in 2013.

In the course of his extensive travels, Wilfried Brandstötter has held master classes and workshops in many countries in Europe, Asia and America.

He has been teaching as a university lecturer at the ABPU since 2005, and from 2015 to 2017 he was Institute Director of the Institute for Brass Instruments and Percussion (BBS). He has been dean of the artistic degree programmes since 2017.

His graduates play with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Graz Opera, the Stuttgart State Opera and the Stuttgart State Orchestra, the Carinthian Symphony Orchestra and the Württemberg Philharmonic Orchestra Reuttlingen as well as the ensembles LaBrassBanda and Federspiel. In addition, students received contracts in the following Orchestra Academies: Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic, Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, Hessisches Staatsorchester Wiesbaden, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Münchner Philharmoniker and Bruckner Orchester Linz. They also teach at the Landesmusikschulwerke of Upper Austria, Lower Austria and Salzburg as well as at the colleges and conservatories of Freiburg, Basel and Graz.