Horn

Tobias Rössler

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Biography

Tobias Rössler was born in St. Pölten, Austria, in 2004 and received his first instruction on the horn at the age of six from Walter Reindl at the Music School of Bisamberg, Leobendorf and Enzersfeld. Beginning in his tenth year he also received piano lessons from Margret Maurer and later from Evangelia Kolianou. Since 2015 he has been an enthusiastic member of the Musikverein Leobendorf Kreuzenstein. 

Beginning in 2019 Tobias Rössler attended the preparatory course for horn at the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna under Prof. Thomas Jöbstl. After graduating from high school at the Musikgymnasium in Vienna and while performing his basic military service with the Military Music of Lower Austria, he commenced his study in horn performance in the fall of 2022, also under Prof. Jöbstl. 

During the course of his developing musical career, Tobias Rössler has recorded numerous successes at regional and national prima la musica competitions as a soloist and chamber musician. He is a member of the VierViertl Hornquartet, with which he was a prize winner at the 2023 competition of Musica Juventutis. In addition, he has been a participant at diverse master classes and orchestral academies, including the International Orchestra Institute Attergau, the original sound project of the Mahler Academy Orchestra and the Horn Workshop in Sankt Barbara in the Mürz Valley. He has also received additional musical inspiration from horn players such as Manuel Huber, Peter Dorfmayr, Johannes Hinterholzer and Wolfgang Vladár. 

In the 2025/26 concert season Tobias Rössler was a horn player with the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien (vbw). He has also collected orchestral experience as a substitute with the Vienna Symphony, the Lower Austrian Tonkünstler Orchestra, die Vienna Volksoper, the Stage Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, and the Vienna Philharmonic.