Dominik Hauer - Trombones

Dominik Hauer, born in 1988 in the Weinviertel region of Lower Austria, received his first trombone lessons at the age of 9 and joined the local band shortly afterwards. During his school years, he completed preliminary studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Prof. Dietmar Küblböck, Prof. Otmar Gaiswinkler and Mark Gaal.

After graduating from the Vienna Musikgymnasium in 2008, he moved to the Berlin University of the Arts for his Bachelor’s degree under Prof. Stefan Schulz. He successfully completed his master’s degree in 2019 at the Hanover University of Music with Jonas Bylund.

During his studies in Vienna, Hauer already took on temporary jobs with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna State Opera, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. From 2008 to 2010, Dominik Hauer was a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra and from 2011 to 2013 an academy member of the Staatskapelle Berlin.
This was followed by his first permanent position as a substitute trombonist at the Cottbus State Theater in 2014, followed by further temporary positions with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne and the Orchestra Mozart in Bologna.

Since 2021 he has been a permanent trombonist in the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and held a teaching position at the UdK Berlin in the class of Prof. Stefan Schulz in 2021/2022.