Dominik Wagner is the greatest hope among rising young double bass players today. He is 18 years old and his results at major international competitions are impressive: in 2012 he won the 1st Prize at the International Competition for Young Bass Players at the Gnessin Institute in Moscow and in 2013 the 1st Prize of the “International Golden Bass Competition” in Lviv, Ukraine – as the youngest contestant. In 2014 he won the 1st Prize and two special awards at the International Osaka Competition in Japan; in 2015 the 1st Prize and Audience Award at the International Instrumental Competition Markneukirchen. He is also a winner of the Leoš Janáček Competition in Brno, the J. M. Sperger Competition, the Bodensee Competition on Lake Constance, the Fidelio Competition in Vienna and many others. n 2016 he won together with Vera Karner the Fanny Mendelssohn Encouragement Award. This prize includes a debut CD on the label Berlin Classics, which will be produced in April and released at the end of August. Dominik was born in Vienna in 1997. At the age of 5 he began playing the cello; at 10 he moved to the double bass. At the age of 12 he was enrolled in the class for extraordinary talent at the Music University in Vienna, where he was taught by Prof. Josef Niederhammer and Werner Fleischmann. Since the autumn of 2015 he has been studying with Prof. Dorin Marc at the Nuremberg Music Academy, where he is part of the special track for highly gifted young musicians. Another important advisor for Dominik is Roman Patkoló, whom he first met in 2013 at the Golden Bass Competition in the Ukraine, where Roman Patkoló was a jury member. Ever since that time, Dominik is glad to be able to consult with him for teaching purposes. At the age of 16 Dominik made his solo debut at Vienna’s Musikverein, giving the world premiere of Wolfram Wagner’s Ballad for Double Bass and Orchestra together with the Ensemble Kontrapunkte; his debut at the Gasteig in Munich followed shortly thereafter, featuring the Double Bass Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Minor by Giovanni Bottesini. He has given concerts as a soloist with the South-West German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim, the Polish Chamber Philharmonic, the Opera Studio Orchestra Lviv, the Brandenburg Symphonic Orchestra, the Kursächsische Philharmonie, the Southern Czech Philharmonic and other ensembles. Many of his concerts have been recorded and produced by the Austrian Radio ORF. Dominik has been inspired and attended master courses with Petru Iuga, Bernhard Ziegler, Christine Hoock, Johannes Auersperg, Jiri Hudec, Ruslan Lutsyk, Bozo Paradzik and Catalin Rotaru.