For the second consecutive year, the Philippos Nakas Conservatory has the honor of hosting Mozarteum professors’ masterclasses. One of the roles of Mozarteum Hellas is to create important musical events in order to help young talented musicians in Greece in shaping their careers. For this reason, Mozarteum Hellas is collaborating with Mozarteum University and the Philippos Nakas Conservatory to organize important masterclasses that will take place at the Philippos Nakas Conservatory from March 4 to 7, 2025. Two parallel masterclasses will be organized:

• violin masterclass (Wonji Kim-Ozim, Senior Lecturer, Mozarteum University)
• piano & chamber music masterclass (Florian Podgoreanu – Senior Lecturer, Mozarteum University)
  The masterclasses are held under the auspices of the Austrian Embassy in Athens.

  This is an extremely important opportunity for students in Greece, as they can participate in masterclasses with the prestige of the Mozarteum University and become familiar with the high-level education of the Austrian university, which can contribute significantly to their development as musicians.

  This 4-day event will end with a student concert on Friday, March 7 at 7:30 p.m. at the Philippos Nakas Concert Hall.

Wonji Kim-Ozim has been teaching at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg since 2003. She was also taught at the universities in Vienna and Bern (as an assistant in the renowned violin master classes of Prof. Igor Ozim), the University of Graz and Klagenfurt.
She gives numerous master classes in countries such as Switzerland, Germany, Korea, USA, Austria and Slovenia. She has won several national competitions and has performed as a soloist with the Seoul Symphony Orchestra, the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Fedosejev, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra conducted by Howard Griffiths, to name a few. As a chamber musician, she has performed at the Salzburg Herbsttöne Festival, the Mattseer Diabellisommer Festival, the Ljubljana Festival and the Thomas Mann Festival in Lithuania. Her main teachers were Max Rostal and Igor Ozim.

Since 2013 Florian Podgoreanu has been working as a lecturer in the Department for Wind & Percussion Instruments at the University Mozarteum Salzburg. His concert activities have taken him several times to Romania, Austria, Germany (including the Berlin Philharmonie), Italy, Great Britain and Switzerland. In addition to his solo and chamber music work, he sings as a baritone in the vocal quartet “Cantosonor”.
Born in Romania in 1985, Florian Podgoreanu began his musical education in his hometown of Ploiesti. Already in his early years of training, he received national and international prizes for piano and composition as a pianist, among others in Romania, Belgium, Austria and Italy. In 2000, he was admitted to the Music Lyceum George Enescu in Bucharest in the class of Prof. Ileana Busuioc. In 2003, he began his piano studies at the University Mozarteum Salzburg and completed his Bachelor’s degree with Prof. Cordelia Höfer-Teutsch and his Master’s degree with Prof. Imre Rohmann in 2012 with distinction.
Florian Podgoreanu gained further training and inspiration in master classes with Serghei Dorensky, Lory Wallfish, Lisa Leonskaya, Viniciu Moroianu, Trevor Pinock and Rolf Dieter Arens, among others. He recently performed as a soloist with an orchestra in Ploiesti the Piano Concerto no. 4, conducted by Ionut Podgoreanu, and collaborated in a recital with the solo clarinetist of the Vienna State Opera, Andreas Schablas.

Each active member of the masterclass will attend two courses on two different days.

TUESDAY 4 to FRIDAY 7 ΜΑRCH 2025

TIMETABLE:  11.30 am – 2.30 pm & 4 – 7 pm