Fair Wind Kai Strobel

• Emmanuel Séjourné (b. 1961):
• 1Prelude No. 1 for Solo Marimba07:10
• Anders Koppel (b. 1947): Fair Wind for Solo Marimba:
• 2Fair Wind for Solo Marimba: I. —05:21
• 3Fair Wind for Solo Marimba: II. —08:06
• Younghi Pagh-paan (b. 1945):
• 4Klangsäulen for Solo Percussion08:23
• Bruce Hamilton (b. 1966):
• 5Interzones for Vibraphone & Tape10:48
• Tōru Takemitsu (b. 1930):
• 612 Songs for Guitar (Excerpts Arr. for Marimba): No. 7, Secret Love [After Sammy Fain]02:49
• Iannis Xenakis (1922 - 2001):
• 7Rebonds a for Solo Percussion07:45
• Vincent Houdijk (b. 1981):
• 8MaPa for Solo Vibraphone08:05
• Tōru Takemitsu:
• 912 Songs for Guitar (Excerpts Arr. for Marimba): No. 5, Amours Perdues [After Joseph Kosma]03:08
• Total Runtime01:01:35

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Among the promising percussionists of his generation is Kai Strobel, who has already won the renowned TROMP Percussion Competition Eindhoven and the 2019 ARD Music Competition. On his debut CD, the young percussionist presents himself as a mature, imaginative artist. With marimba, vibraphone, and two setups, he does not merely deliver a virtuoso display of equipment. Instead, he reflects thoughtfully, almost melancholically, on the quiet spherical sounds of these versatile instruments. Works by great contemporaries such as Tōru Takemitsu or Iannis Xenakis can be heard, as well as world premiere recordings of works composed especially for him. Sensitive and musical—moving sounds on Kai Strobel's debut!

Kai Strobel, percussion

Kai Strobel
1st place winner and recipient of the audience award at the 68th ARD Music Competition 2019 and winner of the 2018 TROMP Percussion Competition in Eindhoven, ranks among the most promising percussionists of his generation.

As a soloist, he has performed with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, the Asko|Schönberg Orchestra, the Musicum Collegium Basel and the St. Petersburg State Capella Symphony Orchestra, among others. He is a scholarship recipient of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and the German Music Competition, and an honoree of the Mozarteum International Summer Academy.

As a lecturer and soloist, Kai Strobel regularly appears as a guest at music festivals in France, Croatia, the Netherlands, Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Russia, USA, Portugal, Hungary and Germany.

Kai received his first lessons from Marta Klimasara in Stuttgart. Since 2012, Kai Strobel has studied percussion at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz under Leonhard Schmidinger and Bogdan Bacanu. In addition to his solo career, Kai Strobel is looking to explore and expand further the possibilities of using percussion instruments in his chamber music groups, such as the Boum-Percussion Ensemble and the PinedaBraussStrobel Trio, for which he also regularly writes arrangements. In doing so, he aims to broaden the percussion repertoire with works by great composers. Kai takes inspiration from their ideas as well as from the developments which instruments have undergone. His arrangements of works by Claude Debussy have already been published.

Kai Strobel is an endorser of the Dutch instrument maker Adams Musical Instruments, Zultan Cymbals and Meinl Percussion.

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