Wenzel Maria Fuchs[1] (born 1963 in Innsbruck, Austria[2]) is an Austrian clarinetist.
He studied clarinet at the Innsbruck Conservatory with Walter Kefer and at the Vienna Music Academy with Peter Schmidl.
[3] Fuchs became clarinet soloist of the Vienna Volksoper at the age of 19 and five years later solo clarinetist of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra,[4] and was appointed solo clarinetist of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in 1993.
[3] Wenzel Fuchs holds a professorship at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, since October 2008[2] and teaches in the Berliner Philharmoniker’s Orchestra Academy.
He has been a guest professor at Sakuyou Music University in Okayama, Japan[3] holds an honorary professorship at the Shanghai Conservatory, and gives master classes all over the world.