Mag. Nora Pötter, born in Münster, Germany moved to Vienna when she was 12 years old. She studied violin, music education and French at the Vienna Music University. Since her school days Nora Pötter spent most of her free time playing both the violin and piano in different orchestras and chamber music formations. Alongside her studies, which she completed successfully, she acquired experience in project management with various EU Culture Mediation Projects organized by KulturKontakt Austria, at Wiener Festwochen and with several Youth Orchestras.
In 2006 Nora Pötter became part of the team of the artist agency Dr. Raab & Dr. Böhm, initially organising and accompanying orchestral tours. Soon afterwards she took over the soloist and chamber music section as well as the planning of chamber orchestra tours. She gained further experience working in the in artistic adminstration of Jeunesse Musical Austria, the national musical youth organisation, in 2009 before returning to Raab & Böhm as Managing Director designate. She subsequently took over – bit by bit – all agendas as well as the orchestral tour department from Dr. Horst Böhm, the longstanding and well-respected director and former owner of the agency.
Nora Pötter has been administering the agency as owner and director since 2013 and is very thankful for the support of her marvellous team! When she is not in the agency or in a concert hall you can find her jogging in the Vienna Prater!
Carolin Storch, BA was born in Bremen. After attending a secondary school with a focus on music, she studied Communication & Cultural Management as well as Corporate Management & Economics at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen (Lake Constance). She gained work experience at the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Neue Eutiner Festspiele and HarrisonParrott (London) before joining the team of Raab & Böhm in 2017. In addition to music, she devotes her free time with great passion to running, swimming and road cycling as well as any kind of exercise (not only) outdoors!
Klaus Dollnig, born 1982 in Vienna, studied Law at the University of Salzburg, followed by a Master degree program “Sport-, Culture and Event Management” at the FH Kufstein – University of Applied sciences, which he finished in 2010. Diverse internships and assisting positions at the Salzburg Festival (2006 - 2013), Event Manager and Assistant to the CEO of the Salzburg PR- and Event Agency Re*Creation (2009-2011), Project Manager of the artistic department of the Philharmonie Salzburg (2014/15). Afterwards, his professional career continued at the Artist Agency IMG Artists in Hanover (2015 - 2017). In 2017 he joined the tour management - team of the artist agency Dr. Raab & Dr. Böhm in Vienna.
Tour Manager
+43 660 300 2906
faber@rbartists.at
Daniel Hochreiter, MA was born in Wels and joined the Orchestral Tours-department at Raab & Böhm in February 2016. He studied musicology at the University of Salzburg and at Newcastle University and composition at the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz. He gained first management experiences working for the Camerata Salzburg and the Salzburg Biennale, a festival for New Music. He is active as composer and musician and spends his spare time running, playing football and tennis.
Raphael Rey came from Baden-Württemberg in Germany to study in Vienna after graduating from secondary school. The study of musicology was a further extension of the secondary school of music he had attended before. He gained his first working experience at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, at the isa - International Summer Academy of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and Vienna State Opera. Since 2020, he has been a Trainee of the team at Raab & Böhm and supports his colleagues in all departments.
Akos Szupper, BSc was born in Sopron/Ödenburg and grew up bilingually and developed a keen interest in foreign languages. He studied tourism in Budapest, followed by several short-term management jobs in the tourism branch. In 1989 he switched to the music scene and became deputy manager of Festivals and Jazz Pub Wiesen (1989-94). During these years he furthered his business skills by attending a university course for sales and advertisement at the University of Economics Vienna. He was entrusted with the marketing and public relations of Jeunesse Musical Austria (1994-96) and by the festivals Klangbogen and Osterklang (1996-97). In 1998 he took part in the international visitor leadership programme of the US. He joined the artist agency Dr. Raab & Dr. Böhm in 1997 working for international orchestra tours.
Dorothea Hellerhoff was born in Denmark but grew up in Italy and Germany. Her musical training on the violin began as a child and accompanied her until she graduated from school, after which she gained her first professional experience with the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden. She then moved to Vienna to begin her studies in musicology and joined Raab & Böhm in May 2022, as an intern. After working at the Salzburg Festival in the summer, she is now a permanent part of the team as an assistant.
Christopher Dingstad grew up outside of Oslo, Norway. After studies at Eastman School of Music (BA in Cello Performance), Mannes College of Music (MM in Cello Performance) and Columbia University (MA in Arts Administration) he worked as the Business Manager for Thomas Hampson in New York, as an Artist Manager for HarrisonParrott in London and Munich and as an Artist and Booking Manager for CAMI Music in Berlin. He joined the team at Raab & Böhm as a Senior Artist Manager in January 2019.
Mag. Stefan Fragner was born in Bonn, but spent his childhood in Brussels. After reading music at Merton College, Oxford, he continued his studies of music, economics and politics at Humboldt-University Berlin. He received scholarships from the Studienstiftung des Deutsche Volkes as well as the Academy Musiktheater_heute. On a professional level, Stefan Fragner was manager of the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin and the Berlin opera company Novoflot, of which he is a co-founder, before moving to Raab & Böhm in Vienna in 2010, where he manages conductors with a special focus on building and developing careers.
Mag. Maria Zeugswetter made use of her time as a student of Vienna’s University of Economics and Business to found and organise the university’s orchestra (Academic Symphony-Orchestra). She spent a term of her studies in the United States. At the artist agency Dr. Raab & Dr. Böhm she began working for singers before switching to the orchestral tours department. Since 2006 she focuses on conductors. Maria Zeugswetter is an enthusiastic violinist and pianist and has a growing passion for opera.
Artist Manager | Assistant to A. Orozco-Estrada
+43 660 300 2946
studer@rbartists.at
Mag. Anna Studer was born in Lahr im Schwarzwald. She has studied Romance languages and Business Management in Vienna and Paris. During the course of her studies, she has gained working-experience at - amongst others - Staatstheater Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany and at the Wiener Festwochen before joining Artist Agency Raab & Böhm in May 2007 as Assistant Artist Manager. As Artist Manager she is now responsible for soloists, conductors and chamber music. She adores attending concerts and plays the viola in the orchestra of the University of Technology in Vienna, as well as being passionate about performing chamber music.
Tim Lennard Bröhl was born in Cologne, grew up in the Rhineland and joined the Raab & Böhm team as Assistant Artist Manager at the beginning of 2022. His previous positions have taken him to the Cologne Opera, the Salzburg Festival and most recently the Vienna Philharmonic.
In addition to his studies in musicology at the University of Vienna, he plays the violin in his free time and has been active with his instrument in various orchestras. Concert tours have already taken him as far as Chile.
Matthias Gruber, born and grown up in Vienna, has been working as Assistant Artist Manager at Raab & Böhm since 2020. He studied musicology at the University of Vienna and also completed the postgraduate course in applied dramaturgy at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Previous professional positions have been in an artists' agency and as a study assistant at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. As a choir singer he also took part in several opera productions.
She grew up in Vienna, then studied Musicology at the University of Vienna. She gained her first working experiences at the Jeunesse Wien, the Bregenz Festival, at the Wiener Konzerthaus and the ORF (The Austrian Broadcast Cooperation). In Ocotber 2022, she joined the team of Dr. Raab & Dr. Böhm as an Assistant Artist Manager.
In her free time she plays football and sings in a Choire.
Sarah Niebergall studied in Leipzig and Rome, majoring in Cultural Studies, Romance Languages and Musicology. Her professional career started at the International Mahler Festival at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig and continued to the Staatskapelle Dresden, where she worked as an Orchestra Administrator. She then was an Orchestra Manager at Konzerthaus Berlin. She joined the team at Raab & Böhm in 2018 as an Artist Manager. Sarah is passionate about arts and culture, hiking and travel.