萊納‧霍內克 Rainer Honeck

生於1961年，七歲開始學琴，於維也納音樂與表演藝術高中進修，並師事維也納愛樂樂團成員阿爾菲德·史達。

萊納·霍內克於1981年加入維也納國家歌劇院及維也納愛樂樂團擔任第一小提琴，並於1984年與1992年先後成為維也納歌劇院及愛樂之樂團首席。

維也納愛樂是霍內克音樂事業的核心，但他本身也是知名獨奏家，於奧地利、歐洲、日本、美國等地皆有音樂會演出。個人音樂事業重點包括與下列對象合作之獨奏會：維也納愛樂樂團、倫敦交響樂團、匹茲堡交響樂團、馬林斯基劇院管絃樂團，以及赫伯特·布隆斯泰特、謝米揚·畢契科夫、亞當·費雪、丹尼爾·加蒂、瓦勒力·葛濟夫、丹尼爾·哈汀、曼弗雷德·赫尼克、馬利斯·揚松斯、里卡多·慕提、安德列斯·奧羅斯科·埃斯，以及邁可·提爾森·湯瑪斯等知名指揮家。

他以樂團首席身分推出的知名錄音作品包括由小澤征爾指揮、維也納愛樂演奏的林姆斯基-高沙可夫《舍赫拉查達》現場演奏（飛利浦唱片）：以及由克里斯蒂安·蒂勒曼指揮的理查·史特勞斯《英雄的生涯》（德國留聲機唱片）。他更進一步與布拉格捷克愛樂錄製德弗札克與孟德爾頌的小提琴協奏曲（波麗佳音唱片）、舒伯特的小提琴與鋼琴作品全集（Frohla Studios）、Orfeo唱片推出的莫札特小提琴協奏曲雙CD，以及用獨奏家與維也納-柏林室內樂團首席身分錄製的《迴旋曲》CD專輯（索尼唱片）。

萊納·霍內克是密集多產的室內樂音樂家，他是維也納演奏家樂團與維也納弦樂獨奏樂團的創始元老及首席；木管五重奏及（2008年起）維也納-柏林室內樂團的創始人之一。其參與之廣播、電視節目、唱片專輯等，皆記錄了這段歷程。

霍內克擔任樂團首席以及與各大室內樂團的合作經驗，可謂「領先群雄」，所以自然成為他拓展領域的踏腳石，他開始跨足指揮，替下列樂團擔任指揮，包括名古屋愛樂、讀賣日本交響樂團、瑞典馬爾默交響樂團、俄羅斯聖彼得堡馬林斯基劇院交響樂團、奧匈海頓愛樂，以及日本東京紀尾井音樂廳管弦樂團，最近更被延聘為該樂團首席指揮。

萊納·霍內克使用1725年製作的「夏康」史特拉底瓦里小提琴，目前由奧地利國家銀行出借。

born in 1961, started learning violin at the age of seven; he pursued his studies at the High School of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and privately with Alfred Staar (a member of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra)

Rainer Honeck joined the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra as a first violinist in 1981, advancing to the position of concertmaster in the Opera in 1984 and to that of concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in 1992. 

While his work with the orchestra remains central to his musical life, Rainer Honeck is a renowned soloist, with concert appearances in Austria and in Europe, Japan and America. Personal highlights were solo performances with the Vienna Philharmonic, the London Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre under renowned conductors like Herbert Blomstedt,Semyon Bychkov, Adam Fischer, Daniele Gatti, Valery Gergiev, Daniel Harding,Manfred Honeck, Mariss Jansons, Riccardo Muti, Andres Oroczo Estrada and Michael Tilson Thomas.

Recordings of note as concertmaster include live productions of Rimskij-Korsakow’s Scheherazade with the Vienna Philharmonic and Seiji Ozawa (Philips) and Richard Strauss’ A Hero’s Life under Christian Thielemann (Deutsche Grammophon). He has further recorded Dvorak’s and Mendelssohn’s Violin Concertos with the Czech Philharmonic in Prague (Pony Canyon label), Franz Schubert’s Complete Works for Violin and Piano (Frohla Studios), a double CD of Mozart’s Violin Concertos released under the Orfeo label as well as the CD “Rondo” as soloist and leader of the Chamber Orchestra Vienna-Berlin (Sony).

Rainer Honeck’s intensive work as a chamber musician - founding member and leader of the Wiener Virtuosen, of the Vienna String Soloists, primarius of the Ensemble Wien and since 2008 of the Chamber Orchestra Vienna-Berlin - is also well documented in radio, television and CD productions.

All this “leading” experience, both as concert master and with these various chamber music ensembles, seemed a natural stepping stone for him to extend his repertoire to encompass orchestral literature, conducting such orchestras as the Nagoya Philharmonic, the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra (Japan); the Malmö Symphony Orchestra (Sweden), the Symphony Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg (Russia), the Austrian-Hungarian Haydn Philharmonie and the Kioi Hall Chamber Orchestra Tokyo, where he was recently appointed to be their principal conductor.

Rainer Honeck plays the “Chaconne” Stradivarius violin (1725); the instrument is on loan from the Austrian National Bank.