Johanna Bilgeri
Biography
Johanna Bilgeri was born in 2001 in Hittisau, Austria, and received her first bassoon instruction at the age of six from Gilbert Hirtz. From 2016-2019, she studied at the State Conservatory of Vorarlberg under Prof. Allen Smith and since the fall of 2019 has been enrolled at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna in the class of Prof. Richard Galler.
She has won several first prizes as a soloist and chamber musician at national and international competitions and attended master classes with Dag Jensen, Sophie Dervaux, and Matthias Rácz. She has gathered orchestral experience with the Liechtenstein Symphony Orchestra and the Vienna Symphony, and since May 2022 has been engaged with the Vorarlberg Symphony.
Johanna Bilgeri has received scholarships from the Anny Felbermayer Fund of the University of Music and Performing Arts and the Yamaha Music Europe Foundation. As the winner of the “Vienna Symphony Talent Competition”, she made her debut as a soloist with the Vienna Symphony under Andrés Orozco-Estrada. In May 2022, she was the winner of the “mdw great talent award” of the University of Music and Performing Arts.