Magdalena Bogner
The Austrian flutist Magdalena Bogner has been principal flutist at the Komische Oper Berlin since September 2015. She studied at the Music and Arts University of Vienna with Andrea Wild and Karl-Heinz Schütz and completed instrumental pedagogy studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in parallel to her concert subject. This was followed by a master's degree with Michael Martin Kofler at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, which she completed with distinction.
She gained her first orchestral experience in 2012 as an intern with the Munich Symphony Orchestra and from 2013 as an academy student and then on a temporary contract at the Bavarian State Opera, where she received important artistic impulses.
As principal flutist, she has appeared in orchestras such as the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, the WDR Cologne, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, NDR Hannover, DSO Berlin, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, SWR Stuttgart, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Kammerakademie Potsdam and has worked with conductors such as Kirill Petrenko, Zubin Mehta, Sir Simon Rattle, Vladimir Jurowski, James Gaffigan, Philippe Jordan, Jakub Hrusa, Philippe Herreweghe and Marc Minkowski. In 2024 she was a guest of the Berliner Philharmoniker on the 2nd flute.
In 2008 she was awarded the Fidelio Prize and in 2012 she received a scholarship from the Yamaha Music Foundation. In the summer of 2012, she was a member of the Angelika Prokopp Summer Academy of the Vienna Philharmonic.
In addition to versatile chamber music activities, she has been a permanent member of the ensemble of 14 Berlin flutists since 2017. Furthermore, since July 2023 she has accompanied the "Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra" as a lecturer in the flute group.
From the summer semester of 2025, she will set up her own flute class at the Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar.
As of January 2026
She gained her first orchestral experience in 2012 as an intern with the Munich Symphony Orchestra and from 2013 as an academy student and then on a temporary contract at the Bavarian State Opera, where she received important artistic impulses.
As principal flutist, she has appeared in orchestras such as the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, the WDR Cologne, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, NDR Hannover, DSO Berlin, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, SWR Stuttgart, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Kammerakademie Potsdam and has worked with conductors such as Kirill Petrenko, Zubin Mehta, Sir Simon Rattle, Vladimir Jurowski, James Gaffigan, Philippe Jordan, Jakub Hrusa, Philippe Herreweghe and Marc Minkowski. In 2024 she was a guest of the Berliner Philharmoniker on the 2nd flute.
In 2008 she was awarded the Fidelio Prize and in 2012 she received a scholarship from the Yamaha Music Foundation. In the summer of 2012, she was a member of the Angelika Prokopp Summer Academy of the Vienna Philharmonic.
In addition to versatile chamber music activities, she has been a permanent member of the ensemble of 14 Berlin flutists since 2017. Furthermore, since July 2023 she has accompanied the "Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra" as a lecturer in the flute group.
From the summer semester of 2025, she will set up her own flute class at the Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar.
As of January 2026