Kai Strobel (percussion)
Biography, Audio/Video, Photos, Discography, Concerto repertoire, Programs
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Biography
Kai Strobel is 1st prize winner and recipient of the audience award at the 68th ARD Music Competition 2019.
As a soloist, the 1992-born percussionist has performed with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, the Tonkünstler Orchester Niederösterreich, the Asko | Schönberg Orchestra Amsterdam, the Musicum Collegium Basel and the St. Petersburg State Capella Symphony Orchestra among others.
He is a scholarship recipient of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, the German Music Competition, and an honoree of the Mozarteum International Summer Academy.
Since 2022 Kai Strobel has been appointed Professor at the Conservatorio Della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano and is the International Visiting Tutor at the RNCM Manchester. As a lecturer, Kai holds regular Masterclasses at places such as the Eastman School of Music (Rochester), University für Music und Theatre Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (Leipzig), Mt San Antonio College (Los Angeles), Leeds Conservatoire (Leeds) and Royal Northern College of Music in (Manchester). In collaboration with his chamber music partner and brother Marc Strobel, he initialized the Boum- Percussion Academy, a Music Workshop for young students from all around the world, which has taken place since 2021 every year in the Region of their Hometown, Stuttgart/ Germany.
Being endorsed by companies such as ADAMS Musical Instruments, Zultan Cymbals, and Meinl Percussion, Kai continues to research innovations in percussion instruments, tones, and their richness.
In the newly founded ensemble, including percussion, bandoneon, and piano, Kai places his instrument in an innovative chamber music focus. Especially the rhythmic structure and the vivid character of the Tango Nuevo enabled Kai to explore many parallels and fitting parameters for a creative continuation of the Genre while valuing the music’s rules and norms.
Audio/Video
Photos
Discography
Concerto repertoire
Frozen in Time
Water Concerto
Speaking Drums
Arena
Veni, Veni, Emmanuel
Marimba Concerto No. 1 for Marimba and Orchestra
Focs d’artifici
Concerto pour Marimba et Vibraphone
Concerto for Marimba and Strings
Programs
Program Solo + Dance (optionally): Contemporaries
Wolfgang Reifender (*1960), Crossover, Snare Drum Solo
Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001), Rebounds A , Percussion Set-up
Francois Sarhan (*1972), Vinko Globokar (*1934), Body, Performer Homework +Corporel
Intermission
Pierre Jodlowski (*1971), Time and Money, Percussion Set up + Audio Tape
Tōru Takemitsu (1930-1996), 12 Songs for Guitar
Here, There and Everywhere .Amours Perdues, Secret Love (arr. Kai Strobel
John Cage (1912-1992), In a Landscape, Dance and Choreography: Louiza Avraam, oder alternativ:
Toshio Hosokawa (*1955), Sen VI, Percussion Set-up
Encore: Alexej Gerassimez (*1987), Asventuras, Snare Drum Solo
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percussion (Kai Strobel), bandoneon (Omar Massa), piano (Katharina Treutler)
– Tango Plus –
La Muerte del Angel – Milonga de Angel – Escualo
Astor’s Voice – Tango Legacy
Scaramouche
—— intermission ——
MaPa, for Vibraphone Solo
Adiós Nonino – Cafe 1930
– Neotango Episodes
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Program 2
– Neotango Episodes –
– Tango Prelude N1 (para Kai) – Buenos Aires Miniatures
La Muerte del Angel
Neotango Episodes
—— intermission ——
Scaramouche
Meditation for Vibraphone
Piazonore
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Program 3
Kai Strobel, Percussion Marc Strobel, Percussion
Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLQ4JT2X52s
Monolith II arr. Kai Strobel
Deep Current
Memories of the Seashore arr. Kai Strobel
Ecochain
Time and Money
Oceania
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