Vincent Vogel Principal Timpani of the Berlin Philharmonic

Vincent Vogel © Sebastian Siakala

Vincent Vogel won the audition for principal timpani with the Berlin Philharmonic and will begin his probationary period in the 2022/23 season. Since 2015 he has been studying at the Hanns Eisler in Berlin with Professors Rainer Seegers, Franz Schindlbeck and Li Biao.
Before that, he studied percussion with Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic, with Anton Mittermayr, Josef Gumpinger and Bogdan Bacanu at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He was a member of the National Youth Orchestra, an intern in the orchestra of the Osnabrück Theater, a member of the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic and, since 2019, principal timpanist in the Staatskapelle Halle. He has already performed as a soloist in the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Vienna Musikverein, the International Chopin Festival in Gaming and the Beethoven Festival in Bonn. Tours abroad with various orchestras and ensembles have taken him to France, Switzerland, Italy, Hungary and China.