Martin Rummel

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Martin Rummel

Martin Rummel (born May 2, 1974 in Linz ) is an Austrian cellist and cultural manager .

Career

Martin Rummel was born as the son of the lawyer Peter Rummel and grew up in Linz. He attended the elementary school in Linz-Harbach and graduated from the Academic High School in 1992 with distinction . After early harpsichord and piano lessons with Helga Schiff-Riemann (the mother of cellist Heinrich Schiff ), he began playing the cello in 1982 with Wilfried Tachezi at today's Anton Bruckner Private University . At the same time, he continued his harpsichord studies with August Humer at the same institute , but did not complete it. In March 1991 he passed the cellist diploma examination with distinction and was the youngest graduate of the house to date. Afterwards, after brief private studies with Robert Cohen in London , he switched to William Pleeth there . In the second half of the 1990s he studied with Maria Kliegel in Cologne and completed his diploma with distinction and the concert exam at the local music college. He then returned for final studies until his death to William Pleeth in London, whose last pupil he was.

Concert activity

Rummel has been active internationally as a soloist and chamber musician since around 1990. Concerts have taken him to Europe, Asia, Oceania, South America and the USA. In recent years, for example, he has performed at the Wiener Konzerthaus , the Wiener Musikverein , the Brucknerhaus Linz, the Tonhalle Düsseldorf , the Krannert Center in Urbana, the “ Carinthian Summer ”, the “Varna Summer” and the “ Biennale di Venezia ” .

Rummel has played numerous world premieres, including the “Concerto Drammatico” by Graham Whettam (2000, USA) and the part of the solo cello in Thomas Daniel Schlee's church opera “Ich, Hiob” (2007, Ossiach). He has studied their works with many important contemporary composers, including Alfred Schnittke and Sofia Gubaidulina .

In recent years Rummel has devoted himself increasingly to the cyclical performance of the solo suites by Johann Sebastian Bach and projects such as his own arrangement of the song cycle Winterreise by Franz Schubert , which he is performing with pianist Norman Shetler and actors such as August Zirner and Xaver Hutter .

Educational activity

From October 2000 to October 2007 Rummel led a violoncello class at the Kassel City Music Academy . In November 2008 he was appointed to a chair at the University of Auckland , where he led a cello class in block lessons until the end of 2013. He gives guest and master classes, for example, at the Holzhauser Musiktage , at the University of St Andrews , Folkwang University , the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, the New England Conservatory , the Longy School of Music in Boston, the Orchesterzentrum NRW and the International Summer Academy in Lenk (Switzerland).

From the winter semester 2014/15 Rummel was a lecturer at the University of Vienna in the university course in Cultural Communication. On January 1, 2016, he was appointed associate professor to head the "School of Music" at the University of Auckland .

Between 2004 and 2009, almost all of the major études for violoncello were published by Bärenreiter-Verlag under Rummels . For the large collections of David Popper , Friedrich Grützmacher and Jean Louis Duport , he wrote volumes of text that are enclosed with the editions.

Activity as artistic director and cultural mediator

  • 1997 to 1999 artistic director of the concert series "JSB" in the Ursuline Church (Linz)
  • 2001 to 2002 artistic director of the festival "kammerMUSIK "at Wilhering Abbey
  • 2004 to 2005 director of the "Holzhauser Musiktage"
  • 2006 to 2007 President of the "Center for Intercultural Encounters" of the Jewish Community of Baden (Lower Austria)
  • 2007 to 2012 director of the “Klassik Musikfest Mühlviertel” in Oberneukirchen
  • 2008 to 2011 director of the "Vienna Guitar Festival"
  • 2010 to 2015 President of the "Vienna Music Group"
  • 2014 to 2015 member of the VTMÖ management team

From 2004 to 2008 Rummel was also the spokesman of the board of the “Instruments for Talents” foundation that his mother set up to provide talented young musicians with string instruments. From 2008 to 2014 he hosted the monthly program "Rummels Rubric". on Radio Stephansdom , where he portrayed a musician in every broadcast. In 2009 he founded the music company " paladino music " together with the cultural promoter Wolfgang Lamprecht , which he has been running alone since 2011 as "paladino media gmbh". In 2015 paladino media gmbh bought the label KAIROS, which specializes in contemporary music, and has since become the most diversified company in the classical music industry in Austria with four labels and a publisher.

Discography

Sheet music editions

  • David Popper , Martin Rummel (eds.): 15 easy, melodic-rhythmic etudes op.76 I , 10 medium-difficulty, large etudes op.76, 2004, Bärenreiter-Verlag, ISMN M-006-52516-4
  • David Popper , Martin Rummel (eds.): High school of violoncello playing, op.73, Bärenreiter-Verlag, 2004, ISMN M-006-52515-7
  • David Popper , Martin Rummel (eds.): Im Walde, Suite for violoncello and piano, op.50, Bärenreiter-Verlag, 2005, ISMN M-006-53193-6
  • Jean-Louis Duport , Martin Rummel (Eds.): 21 Etudes for Cello , Bärenreiter-Verlag, 2005, ISMN M-006-52998-8
  • Friedrich Grützmacher , Martin Rummel (Ed.): Technologie des Violoncellospiels, 24 Etudes for Violoncello Solo, op.38, Bärenreiter-Verlag, 2006, ISMN M-006-53192-9
  • Sebastian Lee , Martin Rummel (Ed.): 40 easy etudes for violoncello with accompaniment of a second violoncello (ad libitum), op. 70 , Bärenreiter-Verlag, 2007, ISMN M-006-53394-7
  • Josef Merk , Martin Rummel (Ed.): 20 Etudes for Violoncello, op.11, Bärenreiter-Verlag, 2008, ISMN M-006-53495-1
  • Felix Battanchon , Martin Rummel (Ed.): 12 Etudes in the Thumb Position Op. 25 , Bärenreiter-Verlag, 2008, ISMN M-006-53549-1
  • Joseph Haydn , Martin Rummel (arr.): Der Greis, Hob.XXVc: 5, arranged for string quartet , paladino music, 2012, ISMN 979-0-50207-002-1
  • Helmut Rogl , Martin Rummel (eds.): Three miniatures for violoncello solo op.5 , paladino music, 2012, ISMN 979-0-50207-005-2
  • Fridolin Dallinger , Martin Rummel (Eds.): Sonata for violoncello solo (1978/2009) , paladino music, 2012, ISMN 979-0-50207-004-5
  • David Popper , Alexander Hülshoff & Martin Rummel (Eds.): Suite for two violoncellos op.16 , paladino music, 2014, ISMN 979-0-50207-034-2
  • Isaac Albéniz , Martin Rummel (Arr./Hrsg.): Tango op.165/2 for violoncello and piano , paladino music, 2014, ISMN 979-0-50207-008-3
  • Johann Sebastian Bach , Eric Lamb & Martin Rummel (Arr./Hrsg.): (Re) inventions for flute and violoncello , paladino music, 2014, ISMN 979-0-50207-037-3
  • Niccolò Paganini , Martin Rummel (Arr./Hrsg.): Cantabile op.17 for violoncello and guitar , paladino music, 2014, ISMN 979-0-50207-006-9
  • Niccolò Paganini , Martin Rummel (Arr./Hrsg.): Cantabile op.17 for violoncello and piano , paladino music, 2014, ISMN 979-0-50207-007-9
  • David Popper , Martin Rummel (Eds.): Waltz Suite for Violoncello and Piano op. 60 , paladino music, 2015, ISMN 979-0-50207-036-6

Publications

  • with Reinhard Cebulla: Partita Opus Drei. Musical crime grotesque. Brockmeyer Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-8196-0669-4 .
  • with Reinhard Cebulla: Suite Opus Eins. Musical crime grotesque. Brockmeyer Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-8196-0647-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 / necmusic.edu
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 16, 2015 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 / cultural-communication.univie.ac.at
  3. ↑ http://www.zib.or.at
  4. ↑ Art consumed by everyone but not financed by anyone? . Upper Austrian news. July 16, 2012. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
  5. ↑ http://www.klassikfest.at
  6. ↑ http://www.indies.at
  7. ↑ http://www.radiostephansdom.at/programm/sendung/rummelsrubrik
  8. ↑ http://www.paladinomedia.com
  9. ↑ New CDs . The mirror. July 30, 2012. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
  10. ↑ http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.572759
  11. ↑ http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.572713
  12. ↑ http://www.dradio.de/dkultur/sendung/musikimradiofeuilleton/2168695/
  13. ↑ New CDs . The mirror. December 30, 2012. Retrieved February 15, 2014.
  14. ↑ http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.572841
  15. ↑ http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.572842
personal data
SURNAME Rummel, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cellist and cultural manager
DATE OF BIRTH May 2nd 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz