MARTIN STEGNER viola
-first learnt violin as an 8-year-old from his father. After studying at college level he swapped to viola and attended the Berlin Philharmonic’s orchestra academy. Martin’s first orchestral appointment was as Principal Viola with the Deutsche Symphonie Orchester Berlin, but after only three years he left, after winning a position in the Berlin Philharmonic.
Since then he has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the world and has released a highly acclaimed CD of Robert Schumann lieder arrangements.
Martin’s teenage love of jazz never left him, and he has performed in many formations with the likes of Herbie Mann and Diane Reeves. He founded the Berlin Philharmonic Jazz Group and has been a guest of Berlin’s Cyminology.