Magdalena Bogner

Austrian flautist Magdalena Bogner has been principal flautist at the Komische Oper Berlin since September 2015. She studied at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna under Andrea Wild and Karl-Heinz Schütz, and while studying for her concert diploma, she also completed a degree in instrumental teaching at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She then went on to do a master's degree with Michael Martin Kofler at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, which she passed with distinction.

She gained her first orchestral experience as an intern with the Munich Symphony Orchestra in 2012 and from 2013 as an academy student and subsequently in a temporary contract at the Bavarian State Opera, where she received important artistic impulses.

As principal flautist, she has appeared as a guest with orchestras such as the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Staatsoper unter den Linden, WDR Cologne, NDR Hannover, DSO Berlin, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, SWR Stuttgart, the Wiener Symphoniker 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. She was a guest at the Berliner Philharmoniker in 2024 on the second flute.
In 2008 she was awarded the Fidelio Prize and in 2012 she received a scholarship from the Yamaha Music Foundation. In summer 2012, she was a member of the Angelika Prokopp Summer Academy of the Vienna Philharmonic.

In addition to her varied chamber music activities, she has been a permanent member of the ensemble of 14 Berlin flautists since 2017. Furthermore, she has been accompanying the ‘Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra’ as a lecturer in the flute group since July 2023.