Romed Hopfgartner

Romed Hopfgartner serves as Senior Lecturer in Saxophone at the Department of Music Education Innsbruck, Mozarteum University, where he bridges academic instruction with an extensive professional performance career spanning jazz ensembles, theater productions, and contemporary music projects across Austria and international stages.

His educational foundation includes saxophone studies with Florian Bramböck at the Tyrolean State Conservatory and Wolfgang Puschnig at the University of Music & Performing Arts Vienna. This training underpins his dual expertise in classical technique and improvisational artistry.

Artistic practice defines his professional identity, with research interests emerging organically from performance contexts: saxophone pedagogy in jazz idioms, theatrical music composition, cross-disciplinary ensemble collaboration, and the integration of traditional Austrian folk elements into contemporary performance. His work consistently explores the intersection of academic training and live artistic innovation.

Notable recognitions include:

• Jazz Prize of the City of Innsbruck (2016)
• Annual Prize of the German Record Critics (2018) for Musicbanda Franui's CD 'Ständchen der Dinge'

While specific academic advising details remain undisclosed, his artistic mentorship manifests through ensemble leadership in Musicbanda Franui. Performance-based grants are evident through collaborations with major institutions including Salzburg Festival, Burgtheater Vienna, and Landestheater Innsbruck. His creative ecosystem centers on Musicbanda Franui as both performance laboratory and compositional incubator, where theatrical experimentation and genre-blurring projects continuously evolve.