Romed Hopfgartner
Biography Romed Hopfgartner
Romed Hopfgartner
studied saxophone with Florian Bramböck at the Tyrolean State Conservatory and with Wolfgang Puschnig at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. As a musician, he has been active in numerous jazz bands, chamber music ensembles, big bands (Nouvelle Cuisine, Jazzorchestra Tyrol), orchestras and theaters at home and abroad - above all with the internationally successful Musicbanda Franui.
As a theater musician and composer, he was invited to some of the most renown concert halls in Europe. He also participated in numerous CD productions, three of them under his own name.
Since 2007 he has been teaching saxophone at the Mozarteum University in Innsbruck/Austria. He also received the jazz prize of the city of Innsbruck in 2016 and the renown German Record Critics’ Award with the Musicbanda Franui in 2018.
