Sebastian Breit & Stephanie Timoschek-Gumpinger
Biography Sebastian Breit & Stephanie Timoschek-Gumpinger
Sebastian Breit
Born on January 26, 1998, he began his musical training at the age of six and started playing the oboe at eight with Peter Mayrhofer. From 2015 to 2017, he attended the preparatory course at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, and since the winter semester of 2017, he has been studying oboe performance with Professor Harald Hörth.
Since 2009, he has been a multiple prize winner at Prima la Musica, as well as at the Vienna Oboe Association's youth competitions. He also received the 2017 Lions Club Young Talent Scholarship.
He has been supported by the talent development program of Prima la Musica Vienna, the Eva Lind Music Academy Tyrol, the European Union of Music Competitions for Youth (EMCY), and the Musica Juventutis program of the Vienna Konzerthaus. He attended masterclasses with, among others, Christian Hommel and Celine Moinet.
Sebastian has acquired extensive orchestral and chamber music experience, including with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Beethoven Philharmonic Baden, and orchestral and chamber music ensembles with members of the Vienna Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, and Ensemble Modern. He has performed under conductors such as Guido Mancusi, Fabio Luisi, Lucas Vis, and Christian Thielemann. He also has a strong interest in contemporary music, as well as jazz and popular music.
As a soloist, he has performed with the Tyrolean State Youth Orchestra, made his debut in the Schubert Hall of the Vienna Konzerthaus in 2018, and will be featured in the Vienna Chamber Orchestra's Prime Time Series during the 2019/20 season. His concert tours have taken him to Germany, Denmark, Montenegro, Slovakia, the USA, and China.
Stefanie Timoschek
studied IGP and piano performance at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Annamaria Bodoky-Krause, Noel Flores, Stefan Arnold and Alexander Rößler. In her musical career she was, among other things, a prize winner in the competition for young Austrian artists "Gradus ad Parnassum" and received the "Martha Debelli" and "Streif" scholarships, which were awarded to her by the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.
For many years Stephanie Timoschek-Gumpinger has been active as a solist as well as in various ensembles and orchestras such as the RSO Vienna, the Lower Austrian Tonkünstler Orchestra or the ensemble "die reihe". Her permanent chamber music partners include members of the Vienna Philharmonic and the RSO Vienna. Her concert activities have taken her to the Salzburg Festival, Germany, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, Romania, Belgium, Luxembourg, China and Japan. Contemporary music plays a special role in her repertoire - the pianist has premiered several works by important composers. In 2009, her double CD with the complete piano works of Rudolf Hindemith was released by ORF.
Stephanie Timoschek-Gumpinger is particularly committed to promoting young musicians. Since 1997 the pianist has been working as a piano teacher at various music schools. Many of her students have won numerous prizes at national and international competitions and have been in demand as solists by concert agencies and orchestras.
Stephanie Timoschek-Gumpinger regularly performs as a pianist in children's concerts at the MV and Konzerthaus Vienna (Kling Klang, Jeunesse). She is also a lecturer at the opera camps of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra within the framework of the Salzburg Festival.
Since 2019 she has been giving master classes and lectures for piano teachers in China.
Since 2011 Stephanie Timoschek-Gumpinger is Senior Lecturer for Solo and Class Repetition and compulsory subject piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Since October 2020 she has been teaching in the highly gifted course and in the preparatory course at the Institute for Piano Performance.
