Alexander Edelmann

The American double bassist Alexander Edelmann, born in 1990, began his musical studies at the age of 13. His Bachelors degree was completed under Todd Seeber at Boston University. A move to Berlin, Germany in 2013 brought him to the Hochschule für Musik, “Hanns Eisler”, where he completed his Masters with Matthew McDonald (1. Solo-Double Bass player of the Berliner Philharmoniker).
 In 2021 he finished his studies under Prof. Rick Stotijn at the "Robert Schumann Hochschule für Musik" in Düsseldorf, where he was the first double bassist to be accepted to the elite soloist degree program, „Konzertexamen.“ He received additional instruction from Edwin Barker, Janne Saksala, Esko Laine, Hermann Stützer und David Allen Moore.
 
Alexander Edelmann plays regularly as 1. Principal Bass of ensembles like the Bamberger Symphoniker, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie-Bremen, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Danish Orchestra and Kremerata Baltica, as well as a guest of the bass group of the Berliner Philharmoniker.

Additionally, he has participated in Music Festivals like Krzyzowa, Tanglewood, Kronberg, Pacific, Moritzburg, Zermatt, Bebersee, and Domaine Forget. As a soloist, he has performed the Nino Rota Divertimento Concertante with the Baden-Baden Philharmoniker, the Vanhal Double Bass Concerto in the Konzerthaus Dortmund as recipient of a prize from the Mozart Society Dortmund, and Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf’s Sinfonia Concertante with the Leopold Mozart Chamber Orchestra.
 
His chamber music partners include Antje Weithaas, Tabea Zimmermann, Antoine Tamestit, Augustin Dumay, Jan Vogler, Louis Lortie, Marie-Luise Neunecker, the Notos Piano Quartet, as well as members of the Armida, Kuss, and Artemis Quartets. He was a participant in the Kronberg Academy’s Chamber Music Connects the World 2018, where he was able to play chamber music with Christian Tetzlaff and Gidon Kremer. Since 2015 he has been a scholarship-recipient of the chamber music foundation „Villa Musica-Rheinland-Pfalz" and since 2016 supported by the Mozart Gesellschaft Dortmund.
 
The young musician plays on a modern double bass from the award-winning American maker Christopher Savino (2017), purchased with the financial support of the "Friends of Villa Musica.”