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Axel Strauss
violin; string and piano chamber music
German violinist Axel Strauss, equally passionate about teaching and performing, joined the Conservatory faculty in 2001. He won the Naumburg Violin Award in 1998, and in the seasons since, has performed throughout North America as recitalist and soloist with major orchestras. His concerto appearances have taken him to Germany, Japan, China, and Eastern Europe. Mr. Strauss is frequently invited to music festivals in the States and abroad, including the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont, International Music Festival of Saga in Japan, and the Kammermusiktage Mettlach in Germany.
Axel Strauss served as violin teacher at the Hochschule für Musik in Rostock while completing his studies with Professor Petru Munteanu. In 1996 he began working with Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School in New York and became her teaching assistant in 1998. His recordings include Kodály's Duo for Violin and Cello, Brahms' Sonatas, Op. 120, Sibelius' Violin Concerto, and Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words. Axel Strauss performs on a violin by J.F. Pressenda, Turin 1845, generously loaned to him by the Stradivari Society in Chicago.
Axel Strauss can be contacted at 415.503.6320 or axelstrauss@gmail.com.
www.axelstrauss.com
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