Summer orchestra academy

Wilfried Strehle

Born in Schorndorf (Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany). Studied at the State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart and the University of Music Detmold under Emil Kessinger, Ulrich Koch and Tibor Varga. He has played with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Tibor Varga Chamber Orchestra. In 1971, he became a member of the Berliner Philharmoniker directed by Herbert von Karajan, from 1984 to 2013 occupying the post of a solo violist. From 2013 to 2015, he was a soloist at the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra.

He has been a member of the Brandis Quartet since its foundation in 1976. Has performed as a member of chamber ensembles of the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Philharmonic Friends Vienna–Berlin. In 1997, he was presented with the European Chamber Music Award from the European Parliament for performing chamber music at the Trio Berlin, which he had founded.

As a chamber musician and a soloist, he has travelled to the USA, South America, Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa. Has his music recorded by Harmonia Mundi, Orfeo, Teldec, EMI, Deutsche Grammophon, and Nimbus Records.

He has been teaching at the Karajan-Akademie of the Berliner Philharmoniker for many years. He has also been teaching at the Berlin University of the Arts since 2001. Conducts workshops at the Summer Academy of the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Conservatories of Yale, Moscow, Beijing, and Shanghai.

Timur Martynov

Born in Saint Petersburg in 1979. Graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire (Professor Yuri Bolshiyanov class). He has undergone training at the Conservatoire de Musique de Luxembourg, studying under Malte Burba (Germany), Jouko Harjanne (Finland), Charles Konsbruck and Roman Zaremba (Luxembourg). A prizewinner at international music competitions, such as the Maurice Andre International Competition (France), the Raimo Sarmas International Competition (Finland) and the Prague Spring competition (Czech Republic).

He debuted at the age of 16 at the Saint Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra directed by his father, Ravil Martynov. From 2003 to 2005, he was a soloist with the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia directed by Vladimir Spivakov. In 2005, he was invited to join the MusicaAeterna orchestra of Teodor Currentzis. Since 2007, he has been a soloist with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra directed by maitre Valery Gergiev.

Performs at the most prestigious concert halls, among which are the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Metropolitan Opera House and Carnegie Hall in the USA, the Konzerthaus and the Wiener Musikverein in Austria, the Royal Albert Hall in Great Britain, the Berliner Philharmoniker and Gewandhaus in Germany, the Tonhalle in Switzerland, the Royal Concertgebouw in Netherlands, the Suntory Hall in Japan.

Takes part in eminent festivals, such as the Salzburg Festival, BBC Proms, the Beethovenfest (Beethoven Festival) in Bonn, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Diaghilev Festival, the Stars of the White Nights festival in Saint Petersburg and the Moscow Easter Festival.

His recordings include Dmitry Shostakovich’s Concerto for Piano and Trumpet with Denis Matsuev and the Mariinsky Orchestra directed by Valery Gergiev (Mariinsky, 2012), as well as Gustav Mahler’s Sixth Symphony as first trumpeter with the Diaghilev Festival orchestra MusicaAeterna of Teodor Currentzis (Sony Classical, 2018).

Conducts workshops in Russia and abroad.

Since 2018, he has been an artist in Schagerl (Austria).