Univ.-Prof.
Marco Postinghel
Marco Postinghel has been a professor at the Mozarteum University since 2005. He also teaches at the Mahler Academy of Bolzano and is a woodwind teacher at the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra. He has been on the judging panel at competitions such as the International ARD Music Competition in Munich and “The Muri competition" in Switzerland. He is an honorary member of the Florentine "Accademia dei generosi".
The bassoonist from Bolzano began his musical training in his hometown with Romano Santi, later studying in Hanover with Klaus Thunemann. After two years of teaching at the Conservatorio “B. Marcello" in Venice, he perfected his playing at the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and was a member of the European Community Youth Orchestra from 1987-1990. Following success at international competitions, including prizes from Martigny, Toulon and Prague, his concert career took him across Europe, the USA, Japan, China, Korea and South America. As a soloist he has played all major bassoon concertos with conductors such as Semyon Bychkov, Sir Colin Davies, Carlo Maria Giulini, Bernard Haitink, Daniel Harding, Lorin Maazel, Wolfgang Sawallisch and Franz Welser-Möst. Chamber music partners included Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman, Isabelle Faust, Heinz Holliger, Leonidas Kavakos, Gidon Kremer, Viktoria Mullova, Sir András Schiff and Tabea Zimmermann.
After four years as solo bassoonist with the Orchester de Paris, he took up the same position in the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich in 1994. Marco Postinghel also performs with orchestras dedicated primarily to contemporary music, such as the Ensemble Recerche, the Gruppo Maderna and the Ensemble Modern, as well as with chamber orchestras such as the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Cappella Andrea Barca.
In addition to the classical repertoire, Marco Postinghel specialises in early music, performing regularly with period instrument ensembles such as The English Baroque Soloists, Balthazar Neumann Ensemble, Accademia Bizantina, Concerto Italiano, Il Suonar Parlante, L'Accademia Giocosa and Musica Saeculorum.