Markus Mester

Markus Mester Classical trumpeter, trumpet soloist and trumpet pedagogue Born 1967 Troisdorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany The German trumpeter, Markus Mester, studied after his graduation from school at the Hochschule für Musik in Köln and Hochschule für Musik in Düsseldorf, as well as at the Guildhall School for Music and Drama in England. He was in 1992 student at the Herbert von Karajan Foundation in Berlin. Markus Mester worked from 1988 to 1992 as a solo trumpeter in the European Community Youth Orchestra under the direction of Claudio Abbado. Since 1992 he has been solo trumpeter of the Bamberger Symphoniker and since 1996 first trumpeter in the Festspielorchester der Richard Wagner Sommerfestspiele Bayreuth. Further engagements have taken him to play with the Berliner Philharmoniker, NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, Hessischer Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester, Bayerischer Rundfunk Symphonieorchester in Munich. He is co-founder of the ensembles "Bach, Blech, Blues" and "Blechblaeserquintetts der Bamberger Symphoniker". Markus Mester was a trumpet teacher at the "Music Camp '97 Brixen", and had from 1997 to 2000 a teaching assignment in trumpet at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart. He is married and has four children.