Karl-Heinz Schütz is Principal Soloflute with the Vienna Phil and Flute-Professor at Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität Wien. Important international awards were the two first prices at the Carl Nielsen International Flute competition 1998 and the Krakov International Flute competition 1999. As a soloist he has been playing the important flute concertos with orchestras such as Wiener Symphoniker, Wiener Concertverein, Stuttgarter Phil, Odense Symphony and others. As a soloflute he has played with conductors such as Ivan Fischer, Lorin Maazel, Kent Nagano, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Yakov Kreizberg, Yuri Simeonov, Vladimir Fedosejev, Fabio Luisi, Franz Welser-Möst and Wolfgang Sawallisch.