Austrian flautist Magdalena Bogner has been principal flute at the Komische Oper Berlin since September 2015. She studied at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna with Andrea Wild and Karl-Heinz Schütz. While studying for her concert diploma there she also completed a degree in instrumental teaching at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She then went to Salzburg for a master’s degree with Michael Martin Kofler at the Mozarteum University, which she passed with distinction.
She gained her first orchestral experience as an intern with the Munich Symphony Orchestra in 2012. From 2013-2015 she was an academy student at the Bavarian State Opera, where she subsequently was given a temporary contract, receiving important artistic impulses.
As principal flautist, she has appeared as a guest with orchestras such as the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Staatsoper unter den Linden, WDR Cologne, NDR Hannover, DSO Berlin, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, SWR Stuttgart, Wiener Symphoniker and 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. She was a guest musician in the Berliner Philharmoniker in 2024, playing second flute.
As well as being awarded the Fidelio Prize in 2008, she received a scholarship from the Yamaha Music Foundation 2012. In the summer of 2012, she was a member of the Angelika Prokopp Summer Academy of the Vienna Philharmonic.
In addition to her varied chamber music activities, Magdalena has been a permanent member of the ensemble ‘Die 14 Berliner Flötisten’ since 2017. Eager to dive into the world of teaching and work with young flautists she is very happy to start as a lecturer for flute at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar in April 2025.