Sebastian Führlinger

Sebastian Führlinger was born into a family of musicians in 1984 and initially studied violin at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Gerhard Schulz, Ernst Kovacic and Josef Hell before moving to Hans Peter Ochsenhofer’s viola class. Already during his studies he had a successful audition for the orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, of which he has been a member since 2012. In 2015 he was accepted as a member of the Vienna Philharmonic. Since then, he has played under the world’s greatest conductors, among them Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta and Mariss Jansons.

He has been a passionate chamber musician from a young age. Alongside his orchestral engagements, chamber music forms a major part of his career. He has performed at numerous festivals and given concerts internationally, working with chamber music partners such as Yefim Bronfman in Stockholm, Rainer Honeck at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Christian Altenburger at the Schwäbischer Frühling Festival. Chamber music recitals in Austria take him regularly to concert halls such as the Brahms Hall of the Vienna Musikverein, the Gustav Mahler Hall of the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Konzerthaus.

As a soloist he has given several recitals of sonatas in Austria and Japan, performed one of Mozart’s violin concertos at the Vienna Musikverein and, in 2021, appeared at the Salzburg Festival with the Junge Philharmonie Wien as one of the soloists in Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante K. 364.