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Martin Grubinger This season, Austrian Multi-percussionist Martin Grubinger is to make his debuts with the Wiener Philharmoniker, Bamberger Symphoniker, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and Orquesta Sinfonica de Euskadi. Martin Grubinger’s repertoire is unusually broad. In September 2006, he won over the audience and critics with his large-scale project The Percussive Planet at the Beethovenfest in Bonn. A further highlight was a marathon project at Vienna's Musikverein with the Vienna RSO under John Axelrod: six percussion concertos, including the world premières of two works composed for him personally. Both The Percussive Planet and the aforementioned concerto program have since then seen successful repeat performances in cities including Lübeck, Hamburg, Cologne, Wiesbaden, Munich, Graz and Salzburg. In the summer of 2007, he received the Bernstein Award at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, and the 2007/08 season saw the renowned concert series “Rising Stars” select him to perform as a soloist in a number of the world’s most prominent concert venues including the Philharmonie in Cologne, the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, the Megaron in Athens and New York’s Carnegie Hall. He has also had the opportunity to appear at the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and the Bregenz Festival. Regular appearances at such prestigious festivals as the Rheingau and Schleswig-Holstein music festivals, as well as Kunstfest Weimar, the Lucerne Festival and the Salzburg Festival, round out his concert activities. In 2008/09, he was Artist in Residence at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig. In 2009, he gave a highly praised debut at the Salzburg Festival, and one year later he received the Würth Prize from Jeunesses Musicales Germany. A sought-after recitalist and soloist with the leading orchestras world-wide, Martin Grubinger was the youngest-ever finalist at the World Marimbaphone Competition in Japan and has received both the Bernstein Award and the Jeunesses Musicales’s Würth Prize. Martin Grubinger is an exclusive recording artist for Deutsche Grammophon: His first CD recording Drums ‘n’ Chant (released in October 2010) was soon followed by a live recording of "The Percussive Planet" on DVD. |