About

Marc Strobel is 1. Percussionist, Composer and Creative Director.

As of the 2016/2017 season Marc holds tenure as a member of the the Stuttgart State Orchestra, the official orchestra to the Opera Stuttgart and Stuttgart Ballet. In season 2023/24 he was contracted additionally as Associate Principal Percussionist of the HR Frankfurt Radio Symphony. Marc completed his studies in Classical Percussion at the State Universities for Music in Trossingen, Germany under the mentorship of Professor Franz Lang et al. and is a laureate of national and international competitions for both percussion and marimba.

Marc was contracted by various German symphony and opera orchestras, including the SWR (Southwest German Radio) Baden-Baden and Freiburg Symphony Orchestra, Saarland State Theater Orchestra and the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra (Frankfurt/Main). As a scholarship holder of the Staatskapelle Orchestra Academy at the Berlin State Opera, he has performed under the baton of renowned conductors such as Daniel Barenboim and Sir Simon Rattle.

On multiple occasions Marc has been selected as both timpanist and percussionist for the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra where noteworthy performances included concerts in the Salzburg Festival.

As a soloist, he has made appearances with the SWR Baden- Baden and Freiburg Symphony Orchestra under the direction of François-Xavier Roth, as well as with the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra under the direction of Kent Nagano.

Besides performances in Europe, concert tours led him to the U.S., Arabia, Asia and Africa. As a lecturer, Marc Strobel holds regular Masterclasses at places such as: Pärnu Music Festival/Järvi Academy (Estonia), Überschlag Festival Hannover, Summer Academy University of Debrecen (Hungary), State Youth Orchestra BW, Cyprus Youth Symphony Orchestra, German National Academic Foundation Music Academy (Brixen IT). In collaboration with his brother Prof. Kai Strobel, he initializes the annual "Boum-Percussion Academy", a music workshop for international students in the region of Stuttgart/ Germany.

As Creative Director Marc Strobel develops strategies & marketing-concepts for artists and brands in the fields of culture, technology and instruments-production.

Besides percussion compositions he creates ballet music in close working relation with choreographers and dancers including the Stuttgart Ballet, Phoenix Dance Theatre Leeds, Gauthier Dance Company, Oper Ballet Vlaanderen and the Saarland State Ballet, focusing on the synthesis of percussion, electronics and dance. His ballet music has been performed in Theaters in the UK, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Slovenia and Russia, amongst others.

Marc Strobel is endorser of Meinl-Percussion Germany.