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Marcus Pouget
As principal cellist of the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Marcus Pouget is a passionate orchestral musician and enthusiastic chamber musician. He has also taught at the Mozarteum University throughout most of his performance career. As Senior Lecturer in Violoncello Pedagogy, orchestral position training and chamber music, he passes on his valuable expertise in teaching and his love of orchestral and chamber music repertoire to his students.
Marcus Pouget was born in Linz in 1966 and attended music school there. After finishing high school in 1985, he studied with Prof. Wilfried Tachezi at the Mozarteum University and graduated in 1989 with distinction. He was also awarded the Bernhard Paumgartner Medal by the International Mozarteum Foundation.
Postgraduate studies took him to Budapest and London, where he worked with Laszlo Mezö (Bartok Quartet) and William Pleeth respectively. Marcus Pouget began his long association with the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg in 1990, first as section leader and – since 2022 – as principal cellist. He is the regular cellist of the Mozarteum Quartet, which has given concerts in Asia, South America and Europe, including at the Wigmore Hall London, Konzerthaus Vienna, Sala Verdi Milan, Tchaikovsky Conservatory Moscow, Martinu Hall Prague, MoMa Tel Aviv, Kuhmo Festival and Salzburg Festival . Until 2020 he was a member of the Austrian Ensemble for New Music; he was also a guest cellist at the Klangforum Wien and continues to play as a guest cellist with the Musiciens du Louvre.
He has performed as a continuo cellist with Ivor Bolton, Trevor Pinnock and Marc Minkowski at RAI Turin and the Salzburg Festival.
As a chamber musician and soloist (Dvorak Concerto, Danzi Concerto), he has made 20 CD recordings (among others with Oehms Classics). From 1991 to 2004 he held a teaching position as an assistant at the Mozarteum University. Since 2004 he has had a teaching position for orchestra position training and has been Senior Lecturer for Violoncello Pedagogy at the Mozarteum University since 2020.
He also taught as a lecturer in the state youth orchestras in Upper Austria and in Salzburg and as a guest lecturer for orchestra training at the Anton Bruckner Private University. He has also taught at the OESTIG audition seminars on several occasions.