ANDRAŽ GOLOB

As of 2021 Andraž is the new bass clarinetist of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Between 2019 and 2021 Andraž held an academy position with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. He has been performing with Orchestras such as: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna State Opera, Nürnberg Symphony Orchestra, Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and Graz Philharmonic Orchestra; working with conductors such as Kiril Petrenko, John Williams, Christian Thielemann, Zubin Mehta, Daniel Harding, Andris Nelsons, Francois-Xavier Roth among others. In 2018 he performed his debut as a soloist with the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock at Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, playing Mozarts Clarinet Concerto. He is the winner of many competitions: Edmund Horwath Award 2021 (awarded to the best Wind-instrumentalist of the Academy of Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra), Boris Pergamenschikow, Ursula and Dwight Mamlok Stiftung, Val Tidone, TEMSIG, Luigi Zanuccolli,…
Andraž studied at University for Music and Performing Arts Graz – at first with Professor Bertram Egger and later with Gerald Pachinger.

At the moment he is studying Chamber Music with Professor Martin Spangenberg at the “Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler”.