Albrecht Menzel

Albrecht Menzel made his solo debut aged 13 at the Dresden Music Festival. As the winner of the Grand Prix and First Prize at the 2016 Toruń International Violin Competition in Poland, and a top prizewinner at the 2015 Premio Paganini Competition in Genoa, Albrecht Menzel’s career has gained international recognition.

As soloist Menzel has played with, among others, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Leipzig Symphonic Orchestra, the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra del Carlo Felice Genova, the Gran Canaria Philharmonic Orchestra, the Magdeburg Philharmonic, the Göttingen Symphonic Orchestra, the Frankfurt Brandenburg State Orchestra,

the Heidelberg Philharmonic, the Jena Philharmonic, the Erfurt Philharmonic, the Leipzig Chamber Orchestra, the Łódź Symphony Orchestra, the Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, the Silesian Philharmonic Katowice, the New Russia State Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Kurt Masur, Vasily Petrenko, Juozas Domarkas, Ralf Gothoni, Andrew Gourlay und Joana Mallwitz.

Under the baton of Maestro Kurt Masur, Albrecht Menzel performed the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto op. 64 with the Leipzig Symphony Orchestra at the Mendelssohn Festival. “…Albrecht Menzel charmed his audience with virtuoso sounds, breathtaking tempos and a rousing, lively interpretation of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto op. 64, which is heard not often in great concert halls in the world…” (Leipziger Volkszeitung)

Albrecht Menzel has also appeared as a soloist together with Anne-Sophie Mutter at the Philharmonie Berlin, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Palau de la Musica Barcelona, Aix-en-Provonce Grand Theatre, at Palau de la Musica Barcelona, at Athenäum Bukarest and toured with Anne-Sophie Mutter in the USA, Canada and Europe, giving concerts at New York`s Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center in Washington, Chicago Symphony Hall, the Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, and at the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus, at the Munich Philharmonic, Köln, Essen, Düsseldorf, at the Grafenegg-Festival and Salzburg Festival.

Menzel has appeared as a soloist at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, at Prinzregententheater Munich, NOSPR Katowice, at the Taichung National Theatre Taiwan, House of Music Moscow, Teatro Carlo Felice Genova, at Auditorium Alfredo Kraus, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Musikverein Vienna, Gasteig Munich, and has been invited to international festivals including the Mecklenburg Vorpommern Festival, Schleswig Holstein Music Festival, Rheingau Music Festival, Dresden Music Festival, Schwetzingen Festival, Brandenburg Summer Concerts, Heidelberger Frühling, International Eilat Music Festival Israel, Festival Moscow meet Friends, Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad Switzerland, George Enescu Festival and Edinburgh Festival.

As a chamber musician Albrecht Menzel has played with artists such as Gidon Kremer, Jan Vogler, Steven Isserlis, Julian Rachlin, Igor Levit, Nils Mönkemeyer, Julien Quentin and Jörg Widmann. Albrecht Menzel began playing the violin aged four. He studied with the renowned violin pedagogue professor Boris Kuschnir and with Julian Rachlin in Vienna. Albrecht Menzel has been honored with scholarships from the Jürgen-Ponto Foundation Frankfurt, the Eduard-Söring-Prize and with the Gerd-Bucerius-scholarship by the German Music Foundation Hamburg.

His Album “Thoughts”, featuring famous works “The last rose” and “Erlkönig” by Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst and sonatas by Robert Schumann, was released on the OehmsClassics label, in a production with Radio Berlin Brandenburg. The first edition of „Albrecht Menzel & Friends“did take place 2019 in the Kaisersaal of the World Heritage Schloss Corvey.

Albrecht Menzel plays the Lady Hallè/Ernst Stradivari Violin (Cremona 1709), on loan by the German Music Foundation.