Biography

Bence Bubreg is Principal Clarinet of the Symphony Orchestra Liechtenstein, a position he won by audition in 2025. He comes from a Hungarian-Austrian family of musicians and made his debut at Carnegie Hall in New York in 2017. Since then he has performed as a soloist and chamber musician at the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Rudolfinum in Prague, the Helsinki Music Centre and the Festspielhaus Erl, among other venues.

His first clarinet teacher was Attila Bubreg. He then studied briefly with Francesco Negrini and later with Maximilian Bauer in the precollege programme of the Tyrolean State Conservatory. From 2018 to 2021 he was also a member of the Young Musicians International Class at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki under Harri Mäki. In 2025 he completed his Bachelor of Music at The Colburn School in Los Angeles in the class of Yehuda Gilad. Masterclasses with Martin Fröst, Sabine Meyer, Sharon Kam, François Benda and Nicholas Cox, among others, have left a lasting mark on his playing.

He has won more than 30 first prizes at national and international competitions in Europe, Japan and the USA. In 2018 he and his brother, saxophonist Márton Bubreg, were the absolute winners of Concertino Praga, and in the same year he received the Helena Karásková Award in Prague. The Grand Prize of the Silverstein Global Clarinet Contest followed in 2020, and in 2023 he was named absolute winner of the Premio Crescendo in Italy. In 2022 he received the Bohuslav Martinů Award and the Antonín Reicha Award at the ISA Academy of the mdw.

As a soloist he has appeared with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck and the Vinnytsia Philharmonic Orchestra. Festival invitations have taken him to the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival, Murten Classics in Switzerland, the Dvořák Festival in Prague and Yuri Bashmet's Winter International Arts Festival.

Chamber music remains an important part of his work. Together with his siblings Sara, Márton and Levente he plays in the Bubreg Quartett; with Márton he forms Duo Bubreg², whose debut album was recorded with the support of Czech Radio, and he is a co-founder of the Trio INNsolitus, which won second prize at Concertino Praga in 2021. He is currently studying for a Master’s degree in chamber music with Christoph Zimper at the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, where he has also assisted Zimper in teaching his clarinet class.