Stefan Zientek

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Stefan Zientek received his first violin lessons at the age of seven. In 2011, he was accepted as a junior student at the Robert Schumann University of Music in Düsseldorf under Prof. Michael Gaiser. He continued his studies with Prof. Friedemann Eichhorn at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar and is currently completing his concert examination. In addition to his studies, he has participated in international masterclasses, receiving instruction from Ingolf Turban, Nora Chastain, Sebastian Schmidt, Helge Slaato, and Alina Pogostkina, among others. He received further inspiration from Sönke Reger and Dragos Manza. His studies were supported by several scholarships, including the German National Academic Foundation, the “Live Music Now”- association, and Villa Musica Rhineland-Palatinate. He has been concertmaster of the German Federal Youth Orchestra, the Young German Philharmonic, and the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra.

During his studies he played regularly as a guest with the MDR Symphony Orchestra Leipzig and the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne and was most recently guest concertmaster of the Meiningen Court Orchestra, the Würzburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne. Concert tours have taken him to the major stages of Europe, Asia and South America. As a chamber musician he regularly appears at various festivals and, as part of the Dreieck Quartet, devotes himself particularly to new music. As a soloist he has appeared with the North Bohemian Philharmonic, the Loh Orchestra Sondershausen, the Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim, the Chamber Orchestra of the Minsk Philharmonic and the Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hanover, among others. Stefan Zientek currently plays the violin “Ex Louis Spohr” by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, on loan from the Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar.