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Austrian cellist Martin Rummel is far more than only a cellist: “Musician, cultural manager, academic, enjoying life”, is how he describes himself, albeit that playing the cello remains his “core business”.
A growing number (currently more than 70) CD albums for various
international labels including Naxos, Capriccio and paladino music, result in
ongoing praise from international press and audiences as well as his reputation
as one of the leading cellists of his generation. Numerous premiere recordings
and musical rediscoveries testify for Rummel’s belief that content is more
important than packaging. “The big task for the next generation is to finally
throw out the tuxedo, to focus on what and how music is made rather than on who
plays where”, he says.
Martin Rummel is a regular guest of
orchestras, festivals and venues across Europe, Asia, Oceania and the Americas,
with conductors and chamber music partners of all generations – namedropping is
not his. As a pedagogue, he has published a series of editions of all major
cello etudes for Bärenreiter which have become standard worldwide. After
appointments as Head of School at the University of Auckland’s School of Music
and as honorary professor at the China Conservatory of Music, he was Chief
Executive of the holding company of JAM MUSIC LAB Private University for Jazz
and Popular Music Vienna. Since 2021, he has served as President of the Anton
Bruckner University in Linz. Being a passionate music communicator, he is the
owner and mastermind of HNE Rights (formerly known as paladino media, with five
record labels and a publishing division), has had his own radio shows since
2007, and writes and talks about music in many different formats.
Rummel is an alumnus of the Brucknerkonservatorium Linz and the Cologne Musikhochschule. His heart lies in a playing tradition that was conveyed to him during a decade of studies with the legendary William Pleeth, always focusing on the music, not the musician.
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