VIOLA

Born in Warsaw, Natalia Binkowska is a renowned solo and chamber violist. In addition to an MA in Instrumental Pedagogy (Frederic Chopin Music University) she holds an MA in Concert Studies from the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts, where she studied in the class of Prof. Wolfgang Klos (both with honours). Natalia is a scholar of the Polish Ministry of Culture and Art as well as the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Art and Culture. A prize winner at many national and international competitions, Natalia was a member of Orchestral Academy of Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics in 2011-2013, and has been appointed as a viola leader in many youth and professional orchestras such as the Wiener Jeunesse Orchestra, the Bruckner Orchester Linz, the Breslauer Philharmonic Orchestra, the Stadtheater Baden and the Vienna Symphonics, where she is now under a contract.
Chamber music has always been an important dimension of Natalia’s activity as a violist. She gets invited to collaboration at some chamber music projects with the members of Vienna Philharmonics and Symphonics. In 2013 with three outstanding musicians she established the Auner Quartet and soon the ensemble became very successful, performing on the national as well as international level. Moreover, with the support of Radio Klassik, Bank Austria, and the Austrian daily Die Presse, the Auner Quartet recently began an already acclaimed concert cycle in the Old Town Hall in Vienna.
Besides her activity as a chamber musician, Natalia regularly performs as a soloist. She has played solo recitals in Austria, Poland and Sweden, and worked as a soloist with many orchestras (most recently with the Polish orchestra Camerata Polonia). She has an extensive experience as a private viola tutor, with some of her students passing the challenging entrance exams to the Music University in Vienna. In late 2015 she joined the Vienna Music Academy.
Natalia is playing a modern viola of the German Luthier Heiko Seifert and is supported by the Viennese string company Thomastik Infeld. 

VIOLIN - CHAMBER MUSIC

Barna Kobori was born in Kronstadt (Brasov, Romania). He has lived in Vienna since 1986 and became an Austrian citizen in 1988.
Barna began his violin studies at the age of five, and graduated from the music college in Cluj (Romania) in 1984. Following his graduation he became a member of the Brasov Philharmonic Orchestra, where he worked for two years. During this time he appeared as a soloist together with the orchestra and also performed at numerous recitals.
From 1987 until 1992 he studied at the Vienna University of Music with Prof. Günter Pichler (Alban Berg Quartet).
In 1987 Barna became a member of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra. He became an orchestra soloist in 1996. During this time he worked with great artists including Philippe Entremont, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Sándor Végh, Sir Neville Marriner, Heinz Holliger and took part in many tours in Europe, USA, Japan and South America.
Since June 1998 Barna has been an associate of the Royal College of Music in London.
Barna was a chamber music lecturer at the Spanish Youth Orchestra JONDE as well as at the Jeunesse Camping in Salzburg.
In 1998 he formed the aron quartett together with Ludwig Mueller, Georg Hamann and Christophe Pantillon. The quartet made its debut in Vienna during the year of its foundation, and was highly acclaimed by press and public alike. Since then, the quartet has developed a wide-ranging repertoire – also in collaboration with Heinz Holliger, Heinrich Schiff and members of the Amadeus, LaSalle and Alban Berg quartets.
The aron quartett has performed together with artists such as Bruno Canino, Philippe Entremont, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Oleg Maisenberg, Wenzel Fuchs, Sharon Kam, Daniel Ottensamer and members of the Alban Berg quartet.
A busy concert schedule has so far taken the aron quartett through Europe, the USA, Mexico and Japan and to renowned festivals (Viennese Festival Weeks, international String Quartet Festival in Prague, Biennale di Venezia, Schoenberg Festival, “Klangbogen” Festival, Cervantino Festival, Kuhmo Festival, Stresa Festival, Enescu Festival, Carinthischer Sommer etc.). In 2001, the aron quartett made its debut at the Carnegie Hall in New York, and in 2002 at London’s Wigmore Hall and the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow. In 2004, they made their debut at the Vienna Musikverein, where in 2007 they performed Korngold’s complete string quartets and his piano quintet in a four-part cycle. In 2008, the aron quartett founded the Laudon Castle Chamber Music Festival (Kammermusikfestival Schloss Laudon).
CD recordings include string quartets by Franz Schubert (“Rosamunde” and “Death and the Maiden”, Preiser Records 90549) and a CD box with Arnold Schoenberg’s complete works for string quartet (Preiser Records 90572) for which the aron quartett received the Pasticcio Prize. The international press acclaimed this CD as one of the best recordings of 20th century chamber music. The outstanding interpretation and technical excellence of these recordings not only demonstrate the aron quartett’s exceptional competence but also set new standards. Cascavelle has released the piano quintets by Dvorak and Frank in a recording with Philippe Entremont. For the German label cpo the quartet has recorded the complete string quartets by Erich Wolfgang Korngold as well as the piano quintet with Henri Sigfridsson and in March 2010 the CD (“Paris-Vienne-Moscou 1910 - 2010”) has been released bv Preiser Records. In 2013 cpo published a second CD with works by Korngold (string sextet with Th. Selditz and M. Diaz & Suite op. 23 with H. Sigfridsson) and in 2014  the Kammermusikfestival Schloss Laudon released a recording with works by Schubert, Eisler, Shostakovitch and Horovitz. 

CLARINET

Corinna Wasserfaller, Klarinettistin MMMag.art. geb. am 5.April 1975 in Kärnten

(Mädchenname: Corinna Ulver)
Musikausbildung ab dem 5. Lebensjahr Blockflöte vom 5.-11. Lebensjahr Gitarre  ab dem 8.Lebensjahr Klarinette bei Gernot Fresacher (Brucknerorchester Linz), Gerhard Lippauer (Carinthia Saxophon Quartett) Prof. Franz Rieger (Konservatorium Klagenfurt) ab dem 13. Lebensjahr Klavier 6 malige Preisträgerin bei Jugend musiziert (5 mal 1. Preis, 1 mal 2. Preis) ab dem Alter von 13 Jahren Solokonzert mit Orchester in Österreich, Ungarn und Italien Urauffühurungen als Solistin mit dem Kärntner Landessymphonie-Orchester Studien an der Kunstuniversität Graz: Klarinette Klassik Konzertfach, 1. und 2. Abschnitt) bei Prof. Stefan Schilling (Soloklarinettist des Bayerischen Rundfunk-Symphonieorchesters) IGP (Instrumental-und Gesangspädagogik) Klarinette Klassik bei Prof. Bertram Egger und Prof. Stefan Schilling sowie Prof. Eike Straub im Zweitfach Klavier Musikerziehung und Instrumentalmusikerziehung Leistungsstipendiantin der Kunstuniversität Graz Klarinettenklasse in der MS Fohnsdorf 5 Jahre Privatinstitut in Graz mit Spezialisierung auf Vorbereitung für Aufnahmeprüfungen und Vorbereitung + coaching für künstlerische Diplomprüfungen an Kunstunis Meisterkurse bei Prof. Martin Spangenberg (Hannover) und Prof. Hans Klaus (Detmold) Orchesterprojekte als Soloklarinettistin in München. Kammermusikerin in mehren Ensembles: u.a. Primrose Ensemble, Wasserfaller&friends, Trio giocoso, Messiaen Quartett Studiomusikerin für CD-Einspielungen erste eigene CD im Trio mit Staatsopern-Solistin Alexandra Reinprecht und Pianisten
Michael Wasserfaller seit März 2016 in Arbeit.
Mutter eines 21jährigen Sohnes. Seit Oktober 1999 verheiratet mit Michael Wasserfaller (Pianist, Komponist und Dirigent)

PIANO

Biography, under construction.