Benjamin Ziervogel (Austria) is the 1st concertmaster of the RTV Symphony Orchestra Slovenia. Since 2013 he has been a guest concertmaster of the China National Symphony Orchestra. As a soloist and concertmaster he played with orchestras such as RTV Slovenian Symphony, Carinthian Symphony, Linz Bruckner orchestra, China National Symphony, Bern Symphony orchestra, Camerata Hamburg, Yamanashi Symphony, Pannonic Philharmonic orchestra and the Orchestre de Picardie Amiens. He is the 1st violinist of one of today’s leading string quartet, theAcies String Quartet. Either as a soloist or being part of quartet, Benjamin has been awarded with many national and international prizes. He cooperated also with soloists of Vienna Philharmonics for the occasion of performance of the Schubert’s octet. Benjamin plays a DOMINICUS MONTAGNANA violin made in 1727, an exceptional instrument generously loaned to him by the „Austrian National Bank“.