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Faculty
Jochen Köhler
Professor of Piano
Jochen Köhler has been Professor of Piano and Methodology at the Institute for Music, Media and Speech Sciences at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg since 2010. Previously, he taught at the University of the Arts Bremen, the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, and the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. He has performed extensively in Europe and Asia and has made numerous radio and television recordings.
Marija Köhler
Professor of Piano
Marija Köhler was born in Ulyanovsk, Russia. After attending the Central Special Music School in St. Petersburg, she began her studies at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in the class of Oleg Malov. In 1985, she completed her comprehensive training with diplomas in piano performance, piano pedagogy, chamber music/ensemble playing, and song accompaniment/rehearsal coaching. That same year, she moved to Vienna, where she pursued further studies with Leonid Brumberg.
Marija Köhler performs regularly as a soloist and in various chamber music ensembles; she has made radio and television recordings in Austria and the Netherlands. Since 1991, she has taught at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts. Among her students are prizewinners of national and international competitions.
Vladimir Kharin
Professor of Piano
Vladimir Kharin is considered a successful pianist and teacher. He began his studies at the Central Music School in Moscow before continuing his studies at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Evgeny Malinin and Lev Naumov. In 1998, a DAAD scholarship took him to Germany to the Folkwang University of the Arts, where he studied with Michael Roll and Boris Bloch, graduating with distinction from both institutions.
As a prizewinner of international competitions, Kharin performs worldwide as a soloist and chamber musician, including at the Ruhr Piano Festival, and has released several CDs, including recordings with Jonathan Darlington. For many years, he has dedicated himself to the intensive development of young pianists. He taught in Essen and, since 2009, has led a piano class at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. His students regularly win prizes at major international competitions.
Anton Sorokow
Professor of Violin
Professor Anton Sorokov, First Concertmaster of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, was born in Moscow in 1978 into a family of musicians. He received his first violin lessons from his mother at the age of four. From the age of ten, he studied at the Moscow Central Music School with Yevgenia Chugaeva. In 1991, he moved to Vienna and acquired Austrian citizenship in 1996.
He continued his studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna under Prof. Dora Schwarzberg from 1991 until March 2004, graduating with distinction. In 1996, he was selected to participate in the Isaac Stern Workshop in Verbier, Switzerland, for which he received a scholarship.
Teodora Sorokow
Professor of Violin
Teodora Kasmetska-Sorokow was born in 1977 into a family of musicians in Sofia, Bulgaria. She received her first violin lessons at the age of four and a half at the Lyubomir Pipkov National Music School under Irina Dragneva. In 1993, the family moved to Lisbon, where Teodora Sorokow continued her violin studies with Professor Valentin Stefanov. From 1994 to 2002, she studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Professors Johannes Meissl and Josef Hell, graduating with distinction. In 2002, she continued her studies at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen under Professor Mintcho Mintchev and graduated with distinction in 2004. As early as 1998, she won the concertmaster audition with the Vienna Jeunesse Orchestra, with which she performed at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Musikverein Wien and the Great Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, and participated in the World Youth Music Forum in Moscow under the direction of Valery Gergiev.
Stefan Kropfitsch
Professor of Cello
Stefan Kropfitsch was appointed Professor of Concert Cello at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in 2006. Fostering outstanding cello talents in his class is one of his most important priorities, alongside his international concert career. His students regularly achieve success at international competitions and auditions for leading orchestras.
Since 2006 he has also been head of the Institute for String and other Stringed Instruments at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
As a regular guest at the Vienna Konzerthaus and founding member of the Jess Trio Vienna, Kropfitsch is in demand internationally as a soloist and chamber musician and performs regularly at major European festivals.
Lisa shklyaver
Professor of Clarinet
The clarinetist, born in Russia, grew up in a family of musicians. She received her first piano lessons at the age of four from her father, Igor. Seven years later, she began her clarinet studies with her grandfather, Joseph Shklyaver, and continued her studies with Professor Valeriy Besrutschenko (St. Petersburg), Professor Wolfgang Meyer (Karlsruhe), and in Trossingen with Professor Chen Halevi (modern clarinet) and Ernst Schlader (historical clarinet). She is at home in the field of historically informed performance practice, encompassing everything from early Classical works to 21st-century repertoire, both musically and with the appropriate contemporary instruments.
As an orchestral musician, Lisa Shklyaver performs with conductors such as Jos van Immerseel, Kent Nagano, and Teodor Currentzis in the world's most prestigious concert halls. She also appears at festivals as a soloist and chamber musician.
Eszter Alföldy-Boruss
Professor of Flute
Eszter Alföldy-Boruss, flautist, comes from a large Hungarian family of musicians. She is a soloist, chamber musician, and professor at universities and conservatories in Austria and Hungary.
As a soloist, she performs in flute-piano, flute-harpsichord, flute-organ, flute-harp, and flute-guitar duos, as well as with various chamber and symphonic orchestras, including the Hilversum Radio Symphony Orchestra (Netherlands); the Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra (Hungary); and the Frigyes Sándor Chamber Orchestra (Hungary). Her repertoire encompasses Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Impressionist music, as well as 20th-century flute literature and contemporary music. She has also performed regularly in live broadcasts on Hungarian and Dutch radio for many years. Besides Hungary, she has performed as a soloist in the following countries.
Herbmann Ebner
Professor of Horn
Ebner was the long-time principal horn player of the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria and played as solo horn in the Vienna Academy and the Matthäus Ensemble in Paris. He was also an active chamber musician and a member of several ensembles, including the Camerata Academica Salzburg and the Camerata Bern. As a soloist, he performed with orchestras such as the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg and participated in numerous CD recordings.
In addition to his concert activities, he taught horn, natural horn, and chamber music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (Oberschützen Institute), where he received his habilitation in 2004. He led international masterclasses and specialized in historical instruments, collaborating with, among others, the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra.
He was also active in scientific work, particularly with research on the horn players of Joseph Haydn at the Esterházy court.
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