Martin B Stanzeleit

Conductor, cello

Martin Stanzeleit was born in Germany. He graduated at the top of his class from the University of Music and Performing Arts Essen. He studied cello with Janchan Chow, Siegfried Palm, Heinrich Schiff, and Janos Starker, and conducting with Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Reinhard Kaufmann, and Bon Fujisaki. After serving as principal cellist of the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra, he is currently principal cellist of the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra.

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Born in 1969 in Tokyo, Japan, he began playing the cello at the age of five and studied with Jan-Chang Chou at the Essen State University of Music in 1990. In 1995, he graduated at the top of his class from the University of Essen, where he also studied with Christoph Richter in the soloist course and with Siegfried Palm, Heinrich Schiff, and Jana Starker. He won a prize at the Folkbank Competition and has been on concert tours as a member of the German Chamber Music Academy Orchestra since 1995. He joined the Royal Danish Opera House, and later joined the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra. He was invited to join the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra as principal cello. He has also performed as a soloist with the Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hagen Chamber Orchestra, and others. As a chamber musician, he has given numerous concerts in Denmark, Germany, England, and other countries. In the summer of 1998, he was appointed principal cellist of the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra. In 1999, he recorded a cello concerto with the Sliven Philharmonic Orchestra in Bulgaria on CD. In 1999, he recorded a CD of cello concertos with the Sliven Philharmonic Orchestra in Bulgaria, and formed the string trio Pallas Trio”, which performed in Hiroshima and Tokyo. In 2000, he toured Eastern Europe, and in 2001, gave a solo cello recital in Hiroshima with Rieko Isogai on piano. In 2005, he participated in the “Peace Pilgrimage 2005 HIROSHIMA NAGASAKI” organized by NHK.　In 2006, she performed Brahms’ Double Concerto with the Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra and her sister, a violinist. In April 2007, she began writing a series of essays for NHK Radio’s “German Language Course”. In addition, she has appeared as a soloist in five subscription concerts of the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra since 2000, and has also performed with the Hiroshima Citizens’ Orchestra and the Seika Girls’ Orchestra. She has also appeared as soloist in the subscription concerts of the Hiroshima Citizens’ Orchestra and the Seika Women’s Junior College Community Orchestra (Fukuoka), and is expected to continue to do so in the future.