Rainer Kübelböck - Schagerl Player
How did you first hear about Schagerl and which instruments do you use?
I have always been very happy with my Lechner trumpets. However, by this time (1999, 2000) both instruments were getting a bit old and I started to look around for alternatives in my neighbourhood (between Vienna and Linz). At first I tried my luck with the Kürner company near Wels, but without success. At the same time, Hans Gansch was developing trumpets with the Schagerl company. Hans has always been my great idol in every respect, human, brass, stylistic, tonal and so on. At that time I was already in Vienna with the symphony orchestra. I had the chance to try out some Schagerl instruments played by colleagues from the Lower Austrian Tonkünstler and also by students, which I quite liked, but to be honest I wasn't completely enthusiastic. At that time, I had grown attached to my twenty-year-old Lechner trumpets and was very critical of new instruments. Around this time there was a company anniversary in Mank with various concerts and Hans asked me if I would like to play in a concert with a 10-piece line-up. Of course I did! I'm always happy to take part! This was my first time in Mank and I got to know the two Schagerl brothers.
I was able to try out many finished and semi-finished instruments in their workshop and immediately fell in love with a still raw W2001 C trumpet. Two days later I started rehearsals with the symphony orchestra for a tour of Europe, including the 6th Mahler, and I have been playing this instrument ever since.
The ABC ensemble emerged from this concert in Mank.About a year later we played a concert somewhere else (I can't remember where) and Hans gave me a Bb trumpet at the first rehearsal.At that time I was still playing Lechner Bb. ‘I think it's perfect for you!’He was right!This instrument is the only one that I didn't choose myself, it just came to me.THANK YOU HANS!
Who has influenced you in your career?
As already mentioned, Hans Gansch of course, but also everyone who is first and foremost a musician and not just a trumpet maniac. There are of course (thank God!) many of them!I have to mention my father and my brother, and Dad may forgive me:I think the musical input of the Beatles and many other pop musicians also had a big influence on me.
Your musical career?
Rainer Kübelböck was born in 1967 and received his first trumpet lessons from his father at the age of nine.
From 1980, he first studied at the Vienna Conservatory with Prof Hermann Schober, later at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts with Prof Carole D. Reinhart and finally at the Anton Bruckner Conservatory in Linz with Prof Josef Eidenberger.
In 1985 he was engaged as 2nd trumpet player in the Bruckner Orchestra Linz and moved to the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra as 1st trumpet player in 1989.From 1996 - 2018 he was principal trumpet of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.In addition to his work as an orchestral musician, he has played as a soloist and chamber musician in numerous ensembles.
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