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Martin Mumelter<\/h1><\/span>
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<\/i><\/i><\/span>Mumelter was born and raised in Innsbruck (read more)<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
which, at the time, together with the neighboring city Hall was evolving into a metropolis for baroque and new music. Regular guests to the region were pioneers of historically informed performance, such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Jordi Savall, and one could personally encounter giants of New Music from Gy\u00f6rgy Ligeti and Steve Reich to John Cage. At the annual festival “\u00d6sterreichische Jugendkulturwochen”<\/a> [Austrian Youth Culture Weeks] award-winning writers presented their latest works, among them Friederike Mayr\u00f6cker, Thomas Bernhard, and (later Nobel laureate) Elfriede Jelinek, and an aspiring Mumelter met Austrian composers such as Friedrich Cerha and Erich Urbanner. From an early age, he participated in the festival\u2019s premieres and recordings and worked his way from playing as a member of the tutti via chamber music projects to performances as (a) soloist.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/i><\/i><\/span>Studied the violin at the Music School of the City of Innsbruck and the associtated State Conservatory (read more)<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
under Roman Wisata, a pupil and former assistant of Otakar \u0160ev\u010d\u00edk<\/a> and student of Adolf Busch. Mumelter completed degrees in concert studies and instrumental teaching with distinction and was awarded the special prize of the AGM\u00d6 (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Musikerzieher \u00d6sterreichs [The Consortium of Music Educators in Austria]). In parallel, he completed several years of composition studies and published his first literary works for ORF (the\u00a0Austrian\u00a0national\u00a0public service broadcaster).<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/i><\/i><\/span>1969\/70 guest scholar of Jani Szanto in Philadelphia on recommendation of Henryk Szeryng. (read more)<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
Originating from Austria-Hungary, as a young violinist Szanto played a duett with Wilhelm Furtw\u00e4ngler on the piano and was his concertmaster. Until his emigration, he was first violinist of the First Munich String Quartet and professor in Munich.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/i><\/i><\/span>Mumelter\u2019s continued training was greatly influenced by (read more)<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
Juri Jankelewitsch, Henryk Szeryng, and Max Rostal, among others through courses, individual lessons, and intensive discussions.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/i><\/i><\/span>Mumelter also counts his musical partners among his teachers. (read more)<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
Perhaps it is no coincidence that the uncompromising composer Heinzpeter Helberger was among the first piano partners for concerts and radio recordings of the twelve-year-old (“Fast ein Wunderkind [Almost-child-prodigy]” according to the press)<\/em>. Later, Mumelter enjoyed performing with renowned composers such as Peter E\u00f6tv\u00f6s, Erich Urbanner, and Hans Zender<\/a> (see \u201cMusik und Sprache sind nicht zu trennen\u201c) conducting by his side. His choice of instrumental partners also reflects his interest in distinctive personalities: the pianists Alfons Kontarsky<\/a> and Herbert Henck<\/a>, the composer and pianist Werner B\u00e4rtschi<\/a>, the harpsichordists and organists Kurt Estermann<\/a> (who is also a distinguished composer), and Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini<\/a>.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/i><\/i><\/span>In his youth Mumelter began his international concert career with a special interest in 20th and (later on) 21st Century music. (read more)<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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He played violin concertos by Alban Berg, Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg, B. A. Zimmermann, Erich Urbanner*, Alfred Schnittke, Richard D\u00fcnser*, Tadeusz Baird, Kaaja Saariaho, Adriana H\u00f6lszky*, and others, performing with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Wiener Symphoniker, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Bamberg Symphony, the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg (OPL),\u00a0the \u00d6sterreichisches Ensemble f\u00fcr Neue Musik (\u0153nm), the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, and many others. He has played in New York Carnegie Hall and Merkin Hall, Bregenzer Festspiele, Sagra Musicale Umbra, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and the Festwochen der Alten Musik Innsbruck (including Bach\u2019s solo works). Mumelter has placed special emphasis on the participation in festivals and concert series of modern music, among them “musica viva” in Munich and the Biennale Berlin (today MaerzMusik<\/a>) where he received the Critics\u2019 Choice Award.<\/p>\n

*Dedicated to Mumelter<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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<\/i><\/i><\/span>And over the decades he has been a very active recording artist. (read more)<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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Mumelter has recorded over 200 works for European radio stations. His CD recordings include violin concertos by Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg, Alban Berg, B.A. Zimmermann, all violin sonatas by Charles Ives, chamber music works by Messiaen, Cage, Ives, Bart\u00f3k, and others from the music labels Koch-Schwann, harmonia mundi, London-Hall, and NEOS, as well as solo works by Bach for the label UniMozarteumRecords.<\/p>\n

CLICK HERE<\/a> to view the CDs.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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<\/i><\/i><\/span>Awards<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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