Josef Steinböck, who lives in the city of Salzburg, was born in 1967 in Tulln in Lower Austria. As a child he learned to play the tenor horn, trombone, tuba and piano. He was an active member of the Würmla and Tulln music clubs. He began composing very early and wrote numerous pieces for wind orchestra in his youth.
After graduating from high school, he began studying music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. There he majored in tuba and, as part of his school music studies, piano, trombone, singing, conducting and choir conducting, as well as musical composition and composition. He also completed jazz studies on the tuba at the Vienna Conservatory.
In 1991 Josef Steinböck won the audition for the tuba position in the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, which he still holds. He has been teaching tuba and brass ensemble at the Musikum Salzburg since 1999 and at the University of Music and Theater in Munich since 2002. Many of his pupils and students are now sought-after tuba players, work as substitutes or full-time musicians in orchestras and have won international competitions.
Together with the director of the Bad Goisern music school (Upper Austria), he founded the “Bläserurlaub Bad Goisern”, which has 550 participants every year.