Michael Linus Bock

Michael Linus Bock was born in 1985 in Vienna. He completed the preliminary studies at the University for Music in Vienna and graduated in 2012 with distinction from the Vienna Conservatory University. Furthermore, he completed his master's degree at the University for Music in Graz with the Vienna Philarmonic bass trombonist Johann Stroecker. As a musician, he has performed with the following orchestras: the New Opera Vienna, the Orchestra of St. Stephan's Cathedral, the Orchestra of Buehne Baden, the ORF Radio-Symphony Orchestra, the Wiener Hofmusikkapelle, and since January 2012 has performed frequently with the orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and since 2014 with the orchestra of La Scala di Milano. In May 2013 he recorded as a bass trombonist with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra two symphonies by Per Norgard. In addition to his musical studies, Michael Linus Bock has a masters as well as a doctorate in Musicology and a masters in Cultural Management- always with honours. Since 2012 he has been working together with Georg Vlaschits in the agency Tritonus Arts for the famous Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra. Michael Linus Bock has published two books with the titles "The Brass Section in Richard Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen" and "Richard Wagner and Anton Bruckner". His books were released by the publishing house Dr. Kovac. Furthermore, Michael Linus Bock is a founding member (together with Dominik Schnaitt) of the trombone octet The Great 8, where he is engaged as contrabass trombonist. Since October 2015 he is the bass- and contrabass trombonist of the Synchron Stage Orchestra in Vienna, with whom he will record numerous Hollywood movie scores. In March 2016 Michael Linus Bock won the audition for additional bass trombone in the orchestra Arturo Toscanini in Parma and one month later the audition for the orchestra of Arena di Verona. In 2016 he released his first Solo CD "Variations - Michael Linus Bock & Friends" where Dennis Sands mixed the trombone octets and Conrad Pope "highly recommended" the CD.