Helmut Hödl is an Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n clarinetist and composer

Composer

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.

Hödl first played clarinet at age 6. He studied clarinet at the music academies of Vienna

Vienna

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 and Graz

Graz

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. He has appeared with the Bachkollegium of Stuttgart

Stuttgart

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, the Woodwind Ensemble during Salzburg

Salzburg

-Population development:In 1935, the population significantly increased when Salzburg absorbed adjacent municipalities. After World War II, numerous refugees found a new home in the city. New residential space was created for American soldiers of the postwar Occupation, and could be used for...

 Mozart week, Ensemble des Jahrhundert, Klangforum Wien

Klangforum Wien

The Klangforum Wien is an Austrian chamber orchestra, based in Vienna at the Konzerthaus, which specialises in contemporary classical music.Founded by composer and conductor Beat Furrer in 1985, it is run on collective principles, having no official principal conductor. Sylvain Cambreling is...

, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

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 and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

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. He has been the principal clarinetist of the Vienna Volksoper

Vienna Volksoper

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 since 1993, and has taught at the Josef Haydn Conservatory in Eisenstadt

Eisenstadt

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 since 1998. He was the founder of the Vienna Clarinet Connection (VCC

VCC

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) with Rupert Fankhauser

Rupert Fankhauser

Rupert Fankhauser is an Austrian clarinetist. He is also a lecturer at the University of Music and Pictoral Arts in Vienna.Fankhauser studied clarinet at the Academy of Music in Vienna. In 1985, he became the principal clarinetist of the Municipal Theatre of Klagenfurt and the Carinthian Symphony...

, Hubert Salmhofer

Hubert Salmhofer

Hubert Salmhofer is an Austrian clarinetist and basset horn player.Salmhofer graduated from the Graz Music Academy in 1990. He teaches at the academy and at its specialist music school in Oberschützen, as well as at the Conservatory of Music in Klagenfurt...

, Wolfgang Kornberger

Wolfgang Kornberger

Wolfgang Kornberger is an Austrian bass clarinetist.Kornberger studied at the Academy of Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna. He was a founding member of the Vienna Clarinet Connection, and has worked for them as an arranger since 1994. He also holds a part-time lectureship at the University of...

. He has written many compositions for chamber groups and orchestras, especially for the VCC. He has also received commissions for the Jeunesse Musicale, Kutrovatz, the Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra and the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt.

Discography

• Czernowitzer Skizzen, with the Vienna Clarinet Connection. Gramola, 2008 (composition: Alexander Kukelka)
• Cafe Europa-live, with the Vienna Clarinet Connection. Extraplatte, 2006.
• Out of, with the Vienna Clarinet Connection. Extraplatte, 2002.
• Squaredance, with the Vienna Clarinet Connection. [Amadillo], 1999.
• Der kleine Klabautermann, with the Vienna Clarinet Connection. media forte, 1998.
• E+U, with the Vienna Clarinet Connection. Pepperland Records, 1997.
• Strauss in Vienna, with quintett wien. Nimbus Records
  Nimbus Records
  Nimbus Records is a British record company specializing in classical music recordings.Nimbus was founded in 1972 by the late bass singer Numa Labinsky and the brothers Michael and Gerald Reynolds and has traditionally been based at the Wyastone Leys mansion site, near Monmouth and the English/Welsh...
  
  , 1997.
• Bläserquintette, with quintett wien. Nimbus Records, 1996.
• VCC 001, with the Vienna Clarinet Connection. Pepperland Records, 1995.
• „unerhört“, with Trio Clarin. ATP, 1991.

External links

• Hödl's website
• Vienna Clarinet Connection
  • CDs of the Vienna Clarinet Connection