Nicole Henter
Flute
Nicole Henter was born in Budapest and has lived in Austria since 2006. She is currently in the chamber music master’s program at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and has graduated with honors her concert flute master program in March 2023 with Prof. Barbara Gisler-Haase. In the course of her studies, she was taught by renowned professors such as Wolfgang Schulz, Karl-Heinz Schütz and, as part of an Erasmus programme at the Munich Hochschule, by Andrea Lieberknecht. She received further musical impulses from Aurèle Nicolet, Andras Adorjan, Emily Beynon, Peter-Lukas Graf, Christina Fassbender, Philipp Bernold and Felix Renggli, among others.
Nicole Henter is a prize-winner of national and international competitions, among others she is 2nd prize-winner of the Third International Franz Cibulka Competition (Graz, 2021), 1st prize-winner of the competition of the Leonard Bernstein Institute of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (2021) as well as of the Prof. Dichler Competition in Vienna, as well as two-time winner of the Hungarian National Competition Jeney Zoltan and the Bantai Vilmos Flute Competition. She is also a scholarship holder of the Anny Felbermayer Fund, the International Music Academy of the Principality of Liechtenstein and the Fidelio Competition.
She also performs regularly as a soloist and chamber musician in numerous countries. She has already made her debut in various concert halls in Europe, such as the Vienna Musikverein, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Musikverein Graz, the Philharmonie Concert Hall Budapest, the National Philharmonic in Kiev, where she performed as a soloist with the Ukrainian National Ensemble “Kyiv Camerata”. She is a participant of various music festivals, such as the Festival Bonheur Musical (France) or the Sion Festival (Switzerland). As part of Wien Modern 2018, she interpreted Luciano Berio’s virtuoso soloist piece Sequenza in the great hall of the Vienna Konzerthaus.
She is currently complementing her musical experience in a temporary contract with the Radio Symphonie Orchestra Vienna in the position of solo piccolo. Furthermore, Nicole regularly substitutes in the Tonkünstler Orchestra, Orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper, Stage Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Kontrapunkt and the Wiener Concert-Verein.