VIOLA

Prof. Hans Peter Ochsenhofer (Wiener Philharmoniker a.D.)

Jul 20-26, 2026

Piano: Wakana Katsumoto (July 23-26, rehearsals for “Abendkonzert im Meierhof: July 21 afternoon and July 22)

Fee
€ 470 (€ 120 application fee, € 350 course fee)

Fee for passive participants
€ 120

Requested information and documents for the registration:

• Fill in and send the application form from the website online or per email to the organization: office@meisterklassen-gutenstein.at

• Pay the application and course fee to our account: 
  Arbeitsgemeinschaft Meisterklassen Gutenstein
  Volksbank Wien AG, Filiale Pernitz, Hauptstraße 106, 2763 Pernitz
  IBAN: AT67 4300 0403 1571 0109
  BIC: VBOEATWWXXX

• Send a short bio (maximum 7 sentences) for the concert program!

Requested further information

• Please send your course program before July 7, 2026 to office@meisterklassen-gutenstein.at

Accommodation
Due to the Raimundspiele taking place at the same time, we kindly ask you to book your accommodation as early as possible!!
Here you will find our cooperation partners.

Application deadline
July 4, 2026 (provided there are still free places)

Shuttles
All shuttles from the accommodation to the teaching location and back in and around Gutenstein will be provided free of charge for you between 9 a.m. and 7:30 p.m., except Monday, July 20, 2026 (welcome dinner!) between 9 a.m. and 9:30 p.m. 

Arriving Gutenstein by train
From Vienna you have a train connetion to Gutenstein or Pernitz with a changing of the train in Wr. Neustadt. From the train station Gutenstein or Pernitz you will have a free shuttle from us to your accommodation. Please contact the organisation 7 days before your arrival. office@meisterklassen-gutenstein.at or 0664 230 20 93 (Gabriele Korn)

Shuttle from and to Vienna City or airport
We offer a shuttle service on July 20 in the morning at about 9 a.m.  from Vienna to Gutenstein (costs: € 50.- per person and one way, siblings or student with 1 parent € 75.-) and a shuttle back to Vienna/Vienna Airport on July 27 at about 10.a.m. Please book your travel accordingly!

Restaurant and catering options

• The place where we offer practicing rooms and where most of the lessons will take place is called “Meierhof”. There we have a big kitchen where students may cook and prepare their individual food (except on the day of the concert).

• A few meters away there is a supermarket called “Nah und Frisch”. (Monday - Wednesday: 7:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. and 3 p.m. - 6 p.m., Thursday: 7:15 - 12:15 a.m, Friday: 7:15 - 12:15 a.m. and 3 p.m. - 6 p.m, Saturday: 7:15 - 12.00 a.m.)

• Restaurants in Gutenstein: 

• Gasthaus Moser, Mariahilfberg
  (Monday 8:30 a.m - 5 p.m., Tuesday - Sunday 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.)

• Lio Pizzeria Restaurant & Kegelbahn, Markt 100 (a few meters away from Meierhof)
  (Tuesday - Saturday: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.)

• Brandstätterhof, Längapiesting 7
  You need a shuttle or a car to go there.

Cancellation conditions
In the event of cancellation for whatever reason, the course fee will be refunded till July 10, later only if you can provide a substitute participant! Once you have completed the registration process, the registration fee (€ 120.-) will no longer be refunded!  

Classroom language
German, English

If you have any questions or if you need help, do not hesitate to contact the artistic and administration manager Gabriele Korn under office@meisterklassen-gutenstein.at or +43 664 230 20 93.

Program

• First meeting: Monday Jul 20 at 10:30 a.m. at the Meierhof Gutenstein, Markt 2, 2770 Gutenstein (introducing of applicants, schedule of classes, house rules, transfers and shuttles a.o.) 

• Monday evening: Welcome dinner for all students of the class
  KS Watson and Prof. Ochsenhofer (Viola), 6:30 p.m. at the Meierhof!

• Prof. Ochsenhofer will work every day with every single applicant for about 45-50 minutes.  

• Thursday July 23 – Sunday 26: During class you will be accompanied by our pianist Wakana Katsumoto.

• If you want to perform a trio (voice, piano and viola), please let us know: office@meisterklassen-gutenstein.at. We are very much interested in interactions between the voice and viola class!

• Wednesday, July 22, 2026 at 6 p.m.
  Abendkonzert im Meierhof
  „Nix als Weibergschichtn-Mozart und die Frauen“
  Meierhof Gutenstein, Markt 2, 2770 Gutenstein
  Musik: Studierende der MK Gesang/KS Watson und der
  MK Bratsche/Univ. Prof. Ochsenhofer
  Klavier: Wakana Katsumoto, Maximilian Schamschula
  Text: Chris Pichler
  Please let us know, if you want to participate!

• Sunday, Jul 26, 2025:
  11:00 a.m.: Sunday mass at Mariahilfberg: students of the Masterclass Viola will perform 2-3 pieces.
  At the stagepiano: Wakana Katsumoto

• Sunday, Jul 27, 2025:
  at about 1:30 p.m.: General rehearsal for the viola class, Refektorium Servitenkloster Mariahilfberg (changes will be announced in time!)
  4 p.m.: Concert of the viola class at the Refektorium Servitenkloster Mariahilfberg (Shuttles will be provided to and from Mariahilfberg!)
  After the concert drinks and snacks for everyone at the Servitenkloster.

About Prof. Hans Peter Ochsenhofer

Mr. Ochsenhofer was born on 13 January 1948 in Graz (Austria). 

He received his first musical education in Oberschützen (part of the University of Music in Graz - violin, trumpet). Then he studied violin with Prof. Franz Samohyl at the University of Music in Vienna.

1971 violinist in the VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

1975 changing to the viola section within the orchestra (2nd solo-viola)

1977 graduated with honours (viola) with Prof. Siegfried Führlinger

1977 successful audition for the orchestra of the VIENNA STATE OPERA

1978 leader of the viola-section

1980 member of the VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

He was also a member of the WIENER VIRTUOSEN 1989-1999. 

Since 1999 he is member of the VIENNA STRING QUARTETT.

Many tours, TV-shows as well as CD-recordings with these ensembles made him well known in Europe and overseas.

1983 he was invited to teach as professor at the Conservatory of Vienna.

1993 he became o. Univ. Prof. for viola at the University of Music in Vienna.

Many of his students succeeded in auditions for many renowned orchestras like the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (10 players), Vienna Symphony (7 players and solo viola), RSO (2) , NTO (5), Staatskapelle Dresden (1), Mozarteum Orchestra, Wiener Volksoper, Bruckner Orchester Linz (2 solo violas), Kopenhagen Radio, Oslo philharmonic, etc.

Encouraged by the acclaim of well known conductors as Michael Tilson Thomas he worked as a conductor and orchestra educator in USA (American Orchestra Institut, New World Symphony Orchestra), in Japan PMF (founded by Leonard Bernstein), in Austria  at the Attergau Institute, Gustav Mahler Orchestra, etc. 

His Vienna-debut as a conductor took place in December 2005. This concert was the opening event of the Mozart Year in the series “Zusammenklaenge“ with “WIENER MOZARTISTEN” (members of the Vienna Philharmonic), an orchestra he has founded one year before.

Concerts (also broadcasted on TV) in Austria (Vienna Musikverein), Greece, Germany and Japan.

3 CDs produced by Camerata Tokyo have been released.

Besides in concerts with Wiener Mozartisten Ochsenhofer appeared as conductor in Sofia at the SOFIA MUSIC FESTIVAL (including TV broadcast), repeatedly in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv with the YOUNG ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC (Haydn Symphony Nr. 83 and Tschaikovsky Symphony Nr. 5, Dvorak 7th Symphony and Hindemith Symphonische Metamorphosen), in several concerts with the "Orchestra Academy Ossiach" (a project supported by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra) and concerts in Japan with Gunma Symphony and the Kusatsu Festival Orchestra.