Rupert Fankhauser
The clarinetist has been a member of the well-known vienna clarinet connection since 1997 and teaches as a professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. In addition to engagements with the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras and the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra, he has also participated in numerous concerts and recordings with the Concentus Musicus Wien under Nikolaus Harnoncourt and is also involved with yoga and the body as an instrument.
About the artist
CLARINETTIST WITH PERSPECTIVE
Career
The Austrian clarinettist Rupert Fankhauser studied clarinet at the University of Music in Vienna. He was solo clarinettist with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, the Stadttheater Klagenfurt and the Carinthian Symphony Orchestra (1985-2000) and the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra/South Africa (1993/94).
On Stage
He toured with the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras and played under conductors such as Karajan, Bernstein, Abbado, Muti, Barenboim, Levine, Previn, Pretre, Stein, Leinsdorf, Jansons, Rattle and many others. As a chamber music partner and also soloist, Fankhauser played with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra i Pomeriggi Musicali, the Cappella Istropolitana or the Camerata Carinthia. He has been a member of the vienna clarinet connection since 1999. From 2012 he also appeared on stage with the Concentus Musicus Wien under Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
Coach
Fankhauser has also completed courses and training programmes in yoga, Alexander Technique, breathing and movement theory, and is a practitioner of the Grinberg Method Stage I and Spiral Dynamics (Basic). He gives international workshops for "Body as an Instrument" and works as a coach.
Rupert Fankhauser is a professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.
