Prof.
Sibylle
Mahni
studied with Professor Marie-Luise Neunecker at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt/Main and graduated with a concert diploma.
During this time she was a scholarship holder at the "Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes" and the "Villa Musica" and was a prize-winner at numerous international competitions such as the ARD International Music Competition in Munich.
From 1997 to 2016 she was principal horn in the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra.
In addition to her work as a horn player in the orchestra, she has already taught as a lecturer at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts and as a professor at the universities of music in Mainz, Saarbrücken and Würzburg. Sibylle Mahni has been appointed professor of horn at the Berlin University of Music "Hanns Eisler" for the winter semester 2020/21, succeeding her teacher Prof. Marie-Luise Neunecker.
She has performed as a soloist with a number of important orchestras such as the SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the International Bach Academy Stuttgart, the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra and the Britten Sinfonia. She has worked with conductors such as Oleg Caetani, Toshiyuki Kamioka and Hellmuth Rilling and is also in demand internationally as a soloist. She has given guest performances in countries such as Sweden, Switzerland, Holland, Croatia, China and the USA.