Child prodigy on the drums

The young Austrian musician Martin Grubinger, born in Salzburg in 1983, was inspired with the love of percussion instruments offering such a great range of possibilites, already as a small child. "I have been playing percussion all my life", says multipercussionist Grubinger, who, when still very young, received his first musical formation by his father, percussionist himself and assistant professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Aged only 15 he was admitted to the Bruckner Conservatory Linz, and has since then been a student of Professor Leonhard Schmidinger. After having been awarded first prize by the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe and in the XXIV International Masterplayers Competition Lugano, Martin Grubinger reached the finale of the "Eurovision Competition for Young Musicians" of the European broadcasting corporations EBU in the summer of 2000. The final concert with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, helped the 17 year old Grubinger on the road to international success. He is now the first percussionist ever that was nominated for the prestigious "Credit Suisse Group Artists Award".

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