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One is “almost overwhelmed by the wealth of timbres.”(Crescendo)

Bettina Aust inspires audiences with her dynamic and sensitive playing, both as an outstanding soloist and as a passionate chamber musician. Bettina Aust is a prizewinner of the Opus Klassik 2023. A special focus of the musician lies on intercultural music projects.

First prizes at the 2015 German Music Competition and the 2014 Markneukirchen International Instrumental Competition paved the way for her successful career. In 2022 Bettina Aust was awarded the Arts Promotion Prize of the City of Augsburg. The clarinetist regularly performs as a soloist with orchestras such as the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, the Münster Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonic Orchestra Hagen. In recent years, she has particularly drawn attention with the Clarinet Concerto by Carl Nielsen, which she has performed with numerous orchestras.

Her musical work has been documented by all German broadcasting stations. In 2021, her second CD "Fin de Siècle" as a duo with Robert Aust (pianist) was released by the GENUIN label in co-production with BR-Klassik. Wolfram Goertz writes in the Rheinische Post that Bettina Aust "plays with the warm-hearted, far-reaching flexibility that has characterized her playing for many years." In 2022, Bettina Aust recorded Paul Ben-Haim's Clarinet Concerto together with the bayerische Kammerphilharmonie. The album was awarded the Opus Klassik.

The musician speaks four languages and passionately explores other cultures. Concert tours have taken her, in addition to various European countries, to Pakistan, Algeria, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti and Mexico. The clarinetist has collaborated with local musicians and composers.

Bettina Aust has been principal clarinetist of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and the Augsburg Philharmonic Orchestra for ten years. Engagements as an orchestral musician have taken her to the Berlin Philharmonic, the WDR Symphony Orchestra, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.

Bettina Aust is a passionate teacher. She teaches in masterclasses around the world and was a lecturer at the Leopold Mozart College of Music in Augsburg for many years. She received her own musical education from Sabine Meyer (Lübeck), Johannes Peitz (Hanover) and Pascal Moraguès (Paris). She has been supported by numerous foundations and was a long-time scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation.