Martin Rummel | |
|---|---|
 Martin Rummel | |
| Born | 2 May 1974 |
| Nationality |  Austria |
| Occupation | musician |
Martin Rummel (born 2 May 1974) is an Austrian cellist.
Martin Rummel | |
|---|---|
| Martin Rummel | |
| Born | 2 May 1974 |
| Nationality | Austria |
| Occupation | musician |
Martin Rummel (born 2 May 1974) is an Austrian cellist.
 |
The son of Peter Rummel, professor of law, grew up in Linz, where he went to primary school and graduated from Akademisches Gymnasium, where he received a Classical education, with highest marks in 1992. After early harpsichord and piano lessons from Helga Schiff-Riemann, he started to learn the cello in 1982 from Wilfried Tachezi at what is today the Anton Bruckner Private University for Music, Drama, and Dance. Simultaneously, he studied the harpsichord with August Humer, but did not finish this course. In March 1991, he got his diploma as a concert cellist with highest marks, being the youngest graduate of the institution's history at the time. After a few private lessons from Robert Cohen in London, he then studied there with William Pleeth. In the second half of the 1990s, he also studied with Maria Kliegel in Cologne and received a diploma with distinction and the "Konzertexamen" at the Musikhochschule. Subsequently, Rummel returned to studying with William Pleeth in London, whose last pupil he was to become.
|
Since around 1990, Rummel has been internationally performing as a soloist and chamber musician. Concerts have so far led him throughout Europe, Asia, Oceania and the US. In recent years, he played at the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Vienna Musikverein, [1] the Brucknerhaus in Linz, the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in Urbana, at the Carinthischer Sommer, the "Varna Summer“ and at the “Venice Biennale“.
Rummel has given countless world and national premieres of works, amongst which Graham Whettam's "Concerto Drammatico“ (2000, USA) and the solo cello part in Thomas Daniel Schlee's sacred opera "Ich, Hiob" (2007, Ossiach [2] ). He studied the works of many eminent composers, such as Howard Blake, Alfred Schnittke and Sofia Gubaidulina with the composers themselves.
In recent years, Rummel has been increasingly emphasizing his performances of the cycle of the Solo Cello Suites by Johann Sebastian Bach and projects like his own arrangement of Franz Schubert's song cycle “Winterreise”, which he is performing with pianist Norman Shetler and actors such as August Zirner [3] and Xaver Hutter.
From October 2000 to October 2007, Rummel taught a studio at the Musikakademie Kassel and was appointed at The University of Auckland in November 2008 to teach a cello performance studio. He resigned from this position in 2013 when it could no longer be fit around his international concert and management activities with a home base in Vienna. Effective 1 January 2016 and in the rank of associate professor, he was controversially appointed Head of School at the School of Music at the University of Auckland. 23 out of 25 permanent staff at the School of Music have since passed a vote of no confidence in him after a series of redundancies. [4] Rummel is regularly giving master classes at renowned institutions such as the Holzhauser Musiktage, the University of St Andrews, the Folkwang University, New England Conservatory, [5] Longy School of Music of Bard College, Shanghai Conservatory and the Internationale Sommerakademie Lenk (Switzerland).
Between 2004 and 2009, the Bärenreiter-Verlag published Rummel's editions of all major cello études. For the most important collections by David Popper, Friedrich Grützmacher and Jean-Louis Duport, Rummel wrote text volumes which are included in the editions.
Rummel will become rector of the Anton Bruckner Private University on October 1, 2021. [6]
From 2004 to 2008, Rummel was CEO of the foundation "Instrumente für Talente", which had been initiated by his mother and is providing young musicians with string instruments. Since 2008, he has been presenting the monthly radio show "Rummels Rubrik“ [11] for Radio Stephansdom, portraying one musician per programme. In 2009 and together with Wolfgang Lamprecht, he founded the record label and agency "paladino music“, [12] which became "paladino media gmbh" in 2012 under Rummel's sole directorship. With the acquisition of KAIROS, an internationally renowned specialist label for contemporary music, paladino media now (with four labels and a sheet music publishing house) is one of Europe's most diversified companies in the classical music industry.
A cello concerto is a concerto for solo cello with orchestra or, very occasionally, smaller groups of instruments.
F major is a major scale based on F, with the pitches F, G, A, B♭, C, D, and E. Its key signature has one flat. Its relative minor is D minor and its parallel minor is F minor.
G minor is a minor scale based on G, consisting of the pitches G, A, B♭, C, D, E♭, and F. Its key signature has two flats. Its relative major is B-flat major and its parallel major is G major.
D minor is a minor scale based on D, consisting of the pitches D, E, F, G, A, B♭, and C. Its key signature has one flat. Its relative major is F major and its parallel major is D major.
B minor is a minor scale based on B, consisting of the pitches B, C♯, D, E, F♯, G, and A. Its key signature has two sharps. Its relative major is D major and its parallel major is B major.
Jean-Baptiste Sebastien Bréval was a French cellist and composer. He wrote mostly for his own instrument, including pedagogical works as well as virtuoso display pieces.
Ashan Pillai is a British violist. He was educated as a music and academic scholar at Merchant Taylors School, London and then at the Royal Academy of Music, London, the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, the Banff Center for the Arts, Alberta, Canada, and the Juilliard School, New York City. His principal teachers were John White, and distinguished American pedagogues and former students of William Primrose, Donald McInnes and Karen Tuttle.
Sebastian Lee was a German cellist and pedagogue active in France and Germany.
Jules Delsart was a French cellist and teacher. He is best known for his arrangement for cello and piano of César Franck's Violin Sonata in A major. Musicologist Lynda MacGregor described Delsart as "one of the foremost French cellists of the period, with faultless technique, a precise bow and a sweet, though not large, tone." He was the owner of the 1689 'Archinto' Stradivari.
Timo Korhonen is a Finnish classical guitarist and is one of the most distinguished classical guitarists in his generation.
Christopher Hinterhuber is an Austrian classical pianist.
Joseph Merk was a noted Austrian cellist, often described as one of the most influential of the first half of the 19th century. He also wrote a number of compositions for the cello.
The Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903, is a work for harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach probably composed it during his time in Köthen from 1717 to 1723. The piece was already regarded as a unique masterpiece during his lifetime. It is now often played on piano.
The Concerto, BWV 525a, is a trio sonata in C major for violin, cello and basso continuo, based on material otherwise found in Johann Sebastian Bach's first Organ Sonata, BWV 525, and Flute Sonata in A major, BWV 1032. The oldest extant manuscript containing the BWV 525a arrangement, D-B Mus.ms. Bach St 345, is dated to the middle of the 18th century. Although this version of Bach's sonata movements may have originated during his lifetime in the circle around him, it seems unlikely that the composer supervised, or even ordered, the manufacture of the string trio adaptation, thus the arrangement has been listed in BWV Anh. II, that is the Anhang (Anh.) of doubtful works, in the 1998 edition of the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (BWV). Breitkopf & Härtel published BWV 525a in 1965. Digital facsimiles of 18th- and 19th-century manuscript copies of the arrangement, in which the sonata is titled "Concerto", became available in the 21st century.
The Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 75, was written by Camille Saint-Saëns in October 1885. Dedicated to Martin Pierre Marsick, it was premiered on 9 January 1886 in Paris. The sonata has been called one of Saint-Saëns' neglected masterpieces.
Klaus Storck was a German cellist who appeared internationally as soloist and chamber musician. He also edited music for cello. He often appeared in a duo with his wife, the harpist Helga Storck, and composers wrote music for them.
Oliver Drechsel is a German concert pianist and composer.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link){{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Academics | |
| Artists | |
| Other | |
