Josef Weissteiner

Josef Weissteiner began his horn studies at the Tiroler Landeskonservatorium in Innsbruck with Prof. Hansjörg Angerer and continued at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich with Prof. Wolfgang Wilhelmi and at the Musikhochschule Köln with Prof. Erich Penzel.

He gained his first experience as an orchestral horn player in various youth orchestras such as the Vienna Jeunesse Orchestra and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra. He began his professional career with the Badische Staatskapelle in Karlsruhe and as an academy member of the Deutsche Oper in Berlin. He has been a principal horn player with the SWR Symphony Orchestra in Stuttgart since 2002. He has also been a member of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra since 2006.

In addition to his orchestral activities, Josef Weissteiner regularly plays in various chamber music formations, such as the Stuttgart Winds, a wind ensemble that emerged from the SWR Symphony Orchestra.