Martin Ferdiny

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Martin Ferdiny with his dance partner Maria Santner at Dancing Stars (2017)

Martin Ferdiny (* 1966 in Schwarzach im Pongau , Land Salzburg ) is an Austrian musician and presenter who lives in Salzburg and Vienna .

life and career

He completed his studies in clarinet and piano at the Salzburg Mozarteum in 1990 with distinction. For four years he taught at various grammar schools and the Salzburg Music School. Since 1994 he has worked for private broadcasters (Radio Melody, Welle 1 ) and for ORF, initially for Radio Salzburg , with brief interruptions .

In addition to stage and cabaret music etc. a. For and for the Salzburg State Theater he also designed music animation projects as part of the Salzburg Mozart Exhibition.

In 1996 he founded his own recording studio and subsequently the CD label FUN-tastic records . Since then he has produced numerous recordings a. a. for ORF Salzburg and Bayerischer Rundfunk .

Ferdiny is the founder and musical director of the soul band FUN-tastic , in which he alternates between playing keyboard , saxophone , flute , clarinet and percussion . The duo soulaffair with the singer and wife Tina Ferdiny has existed since 2004.

Martin Ferdiny, who used to work as a model, hosted “ Willkommen Österreich ” from July 2005 to March 2007 together with Martina Rupp , as well as the programs “Well advised Austria”, “ Licht ins Dunkel aus Salzburg” and “Salzburger Kochtipps”. .

From April 2007 until the program was discontinued in September 2012, he worked as a reporter for “Today in Austria”, and since January 2008 he has also moderated this program. From September 2012 to August 2017 he moderated the ORF 2 Magazine Today Noon and the follow-up program to “Today in Austria”, today Austria .

In smaller television roles he also appeared as an actor, e.g. B. as assistant commissioner in the series " Medicopter 117 ". He also moderates the programs “Freizeit” and “Panorama” on Radio Salzburg.

In June 2017 he won the ORF dance show  Dancing Stars together with Maria Santner .

From August 21, 2017, Ferdiny presented the shows Mittag in Austria and Aktuell in Austria . Since January 2019, he and Birgit Fenderl have been presenting the early- evening magazine “ Studio 2 ” on ORF 2 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. Dancing Stars 2017 - tv.ORF.at . In: tv.ORF.at . ( orf.at [accessed on March 23, 2017]). Dancing Stars 2017 - tv.ORF.at ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dancingstars.orf.at
  2. Victory for Martin Ferdiny and Maria Santner ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the orf.at website , accessed on June 3, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dancingstars.orf.at
  3. On the move in Austria. Retrieved August 18, 2017 .
  4. Kurier: ORF2: Start of the new early evening magazine "Studio 2" . Article from January 7, 2019, accessed on January 7, 2019.