# Wenzel Fuchs

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{{Infobox musical artist
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1963|3|19}}
|birth_place = [Innsbruck](/source/Innsbruck), Austria
|background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
|occupation = Berlin Philharmonic Wind Soloists member
|instrument = Clarinet
|genre = Classical
}}
'''Wenzel Maria Fuchs'''<ref>{{cite web | url = https://wurlitzerklarinetten.de/artists/wenzel-maria-fuchs/?lang=en|title=Wenzel Maria Fuchs|publisher=WURLITZER Clarinets|accessdate =2024-08-12}}</ref> (born 1963 in [Innsbruck](/source/Innsbruck), Austria<ref name="Berliner">{{cite web|url=http://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/berliner-philharmoniker/the-orchestra/musician/musiker/wenzel-fuchs/|title=Wenzel Fuchs biographic profile|publisher=Berliner Philarmoniker|accessdate=2010-01-03|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110104202614/https://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/berliner-philharmoniker/the-orchestra/musician/musiker/wenzel-fuchs/|archivedate=2011-01-04}}</ref>) is an [Austria](/source/Austria)n [clarinetist](/source/clarinetist).

He studied [clarinet](/source/clarinet) at the Innsbruck Conservatory with Walter Kefer and at the [Vienna Music Academy](/source/Vienna_Music_Academy) with [Peter Schmidl](/source/Peter_Schmidl).<ref name="forest">{{cite web|url=http://www.insightcc.com/musicaldays-2004/a08-clarinet.html|title=Wenzel Fuchs|year=2004|publisher=Forest Hills Chamber Music Festival|accessdate=2009-08-05}}</ref><ref name="Kulturforum">{{cite web|url=http://www.kulturforumberlin.at/component/option,com_sobi2/sobi2Task,sobi2Details/catid,0/sobi2Id,53/Itemid,90/|title=Wenzel Fuchs biographic profile|publisher=Österreichisches Kulturforum|accessdate=2010-01-03|archive-date=2011-05-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110529082413/http://www.kulturforumberlin.at/component/option,com_sobi2/sobi2Task,sobi2Details/catid,0/sobi2Id,53/Itemid,90/|url-status=dead}}</ref> He has performed with the [Vienna State Opera](/source/Vienna_State_Opera), the [Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra](/source/Vienna_Philharmonic_Orchestra), the [Vienna Volksoper](/source/Vienna_Volksoper), and the [Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra](/source/Vienna_Radio_Symphony_Orchestra).<ref name="forest" />

Fuchs became clarinet soloist of the Vienna Volksoper at the age of 19 and five years later solo clarinetist of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra,<ref name="Kulturforum" /> and was appointed solo clarinetist of the [Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra](/source/Berlin_Philharmonic_Orchestra) in 1993.<ref name="forest" />

Wenzel Fuchs holds a professorship at the [Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin](/source/Hochschule_f%C3%BCr_Musik_Hanns_Eisler_Berlin), since October 2008<ref name="Berliner" /> and teaches in the Berliner Philharmoniker’s Orchestra Academy. He has been a guest professor at Sakuyou Music University in [Okayama](/source/Okayama), [Japan](/source/Japan)<ref name="forest" /> holds an honorary professorship at the Shanghai Conservatory, and gives master classes all over the world.<ref name="Berliner" />

Fuchs is a member of the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Soloists ensemble,<ref name="Wind Soloists">{{cite web|url=http://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/berliner-philharmoniker/chamber-music-groups/ensemble/ensemble/berliner-philharmonische-blaesersolisten/|title=Berlin Philharmonic Winds Soloists ensemble's profile|publisher=Berliner Philarmoniker|accessdate=2010-01-03|archive-date=2009-10-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091015203210/http://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/berliner-philharmoniker/chamber-music-groups/ensemble/ensemble/berliner-philharmonische-blaesersolisten/|url-status=dead}}</ref> the Berlin Philharmonic Octet ensemble,<ref name="Octet">{{cite web|url=http://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/berliner-philharmoniker/chamber-music-groups/ensemble/ensemble/philharmonisches-oktett/|title=Philharmonic Octet Berlin ensemble's profile|publisher=Berliner Philarmoniker|accessdate=2010-01-03|archive-date=2009-10-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091015203832/http://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/berliner-philharmoniker/chamber-music-groups/ensemble/ensemble/philharmonisches-oktett/|url-status=dead}}</ref> the Philarmonische Freunde Wien-Berlin ensemble,<ref name="Freunde">{{cite web|url=http://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/berliner-philharmoniker/chamber-music-groups/ensemble/ensemble/philharmonische-freunde-wien-berlin-1/|title=Philharmonische Freunde Wien-Berlin ensemble's profile|publisher=Berliner Philarmoniker|accessdate=2010-01-03|archive-date=2009-10-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091016004833/http://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/berliner-philharmoniker/chamber-music-groups/ensemble/ensemble/philharmonische-freunde-wien-berlin-1/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Berliner Philarmonisches Bläserensemble,<ref name="Bläserensemble">{{cite web|url=http://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/berliner-philharmoniker/chamber-music-groups/ensemble/ensemble/berliner-philharmonisches-blaeserensemble/|title=Berliner Philharmonisches Bläserensemble's profile|publisher=Berliner Philarmoniker|accessdate=2010-01-03|archive-date=2009-10-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091015203320/http://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/berliner-philharmoniker/chamber-music-groups/ensemble/ensemble/berliner-philharmonisches-blaeserensemble/|url-status=dead}}</ref> the Metropolis Ensemble, and the [Super World Orchestra](/source/Super_World_Orchestra).<ref name="forest" />

Wenzel Fuchs has been awarded a Prize of the Austrian Ministry for Science and Art and several prizes in the German national youth competition "Jugend musiziert".<ref name="Kulturforum" />

==Discography==
*''Martinu, Nielsen, Koechlin: Serenade'', with the Baborák Ensemble. Supraphon SU 3998-2, June 2009.
*''Reger: Clarinet Quintet, Op. 146 and String Quartet, Op. 109'', with the Berlin Philarmonia Quartet. NAXOS, 8.554510, 2001.

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