The quartet
Severin Neubauer
Severin Neubauer was born in Vienna in 1998 into a family of musicians. He studied classical saxophone with Professor Gerald Preinfalk at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and jazz and improvised music with Fabian Rucker at the Anton Bruckner Private University. He supplemented his training with numerous masterclasses, including those with Nikita Zimin, Arno Bornkamp, and George Garzone.
Severin Neubauer is a member of several chamber music ensembles: SPECTRUM Saxophone Quartet, Trio SMS, Rondo Solisti, Duo Neubauer and regularly participates in several ensembles: Ensemble Wiener Collage, Ensemble Platypus, Klangforum Wien.
Severin Neubauer is a prize winner of national and international competitions.
Yingshuo Ma
Yingshuo Ma (*2001) is a classical saxophonist from China living in Vienna. He moved to Austria at the age of 14 to pursue his musical dream.
He completed his bachelor's degree in classical saxophone at the Gustav Mahler Private University for Music in Klagenfurt under Prof. Stephanie Schoiswohl. He then completed his artistic master's degree at the Music and Arts Private University of the City of Vienna under Prof. Michael Krenn.
Artistic highlights: Soloist with the Carinthian Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Emmanuel Tjeknavorian (Concertino da camera by J. Ibert), participation with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in the Vienna Konzerthaus and in the Musikverein Vienna (Golden Hall).
In 2026, he impressed the international jury of the Singapore International Saxophone Summit Conference and Competition and was awarded 3rd prize.
In addition to his concert activities, Yingshuo Ma is a teacher at the Zell am See Music School.
Stephanie Schoiswohl
Stephanie Schoiswohl, born in 1990, grew up in Windischgarsten, Upper Austria, and studied Saxophone with Prof. Gerald Preinfalk at the KUG - University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and Prof. Philippe Geiss at the Music Academy Strasbourg in France. Furthermore, she acquired a Master‘s degree for Contemporary Music with the Klangforum Wien.
Schoiswohl has been a professor of Classical Saxophone at The Gustav Mahler Private University for Music (GMPU) in Klagenfurt since 2018. She is also a member of various ensembles of all genres, for which she acts as a composer, too. Numerous guest appearances for contemporary ensembles like the Klangforum Wien, Philharmonic orchestras and Jazz orchestras have taken her to a multitude of national and international concerts and festivals.
Stephanie Schoiswohl is a scholar of “PE-Förderungen für Studierende der Musik e.V." and was awarded the honorary prize of the BMWFW in 2015.
Florian Bauer
Florian Bauer was born in Graz in 1988 and received his first music lessons on the clarinet at the age of eight from Thomas Schiretz. His comprehensive training as a saxophonist began with a diploma in classical saxophone performance under Professor Gerald Preinfalk at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.
He graduated with distinction from his Master's program in 2015.
In the following years, Florian Bauer also studied jazz and popular music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna under Prof. Klaus Dickbauer.
This extensive training in classical saxophone led him to various orchestras such as Klangforum Wien, the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra Recreation Graz, and to various ensembles and saxophone quartets. In the field of jazz, Florian Bauer works closely with big bands and jazz ensembles such as Orjazztra Vienna, Jazzorchester Zagreb, and the Graz Composers Orchestra.
Honorary members
Daniel Dundus
Daniel Dundus was born in Wolfach, Germany, in 1994. He began his saxophone studies there at the age of six. In 2000, he moved to Graz, where he was accepted into the conservatory under Christian Pold. From 2009 to 2015, he completed the "Preparatory Course for Classical Saxophone" at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (KUG) in the class of Professor Gerald Preinfalk. Subsequently, Daniel Dundus earned a Bachelor's degree in Instrumental and Vocal Pedagogy (Classical Saxophone) from the KUG and a Master's degree in Performance Practice in Contemporary Music with Klangforum Wien.
He is a prize winner and participant in national and international competitions. Guest appearances have taken him to ensembles such as Klangforum Wien and as a soloist to various wind and symphony orchestras.
Daniel Dundus teaches at the music high school in Varazdin, Croatia.