Prof Martin Spangenberg appointed Vice-Rector
Following his election by the Extended Academic Senate of the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin on 13 December 2023, Prof. Martin Spangenberg has now been officially appointed Vice-Rector of the Eisler School by the Berlin Senate on 20 February 2024. His two-year term of office begins with immediate effect.
Prof Martin Spangenberg was already Vice-Rector of the school from 2015 to 2019. The clarinettist was appointed Professor of Clarinet at the Eisler in 2013 and has also taught as Professor of Chamber Music for Wind Instruments at the school since the 2019/20 winter semester. He had previously been Professor of Clarinet at the Franz Liszt School of Music Weimar since 1997.
Martin Spangenberg was principal clarinettist of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra from 1988 to 2003 and a member of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra since 1995. He has performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the SWR Symphonieorchester Stuttgart, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Polish Chamber Philharmonic. His chamber music collaborations include the Artemis Quartet, the Mandelring Quartet, the pianist Stephan Kiefer, the cellist Jens-Peter Maintz and the flautist Michael Martin Kofler. He is a member of the Albert Schweitzer Octet. He has also worked as a soloist and conductor with the M 18 chamber orchestra since 2009.