Stefan started playing at the age of six with Hedwig Thierfelder in Osnabruck, Germany. His teachers include Marcel Charpentier, Konrad Grahe and Emile Cantor. Stefan completed his Bachelor of Music in 1992 at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen. He has attended master classes with Konrad Grahe, Thomas Brandis, Serge Collot and Emile Cantor.From 1992 he worked with a number of orchestras in Germany including the Folkwang Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Hungarica, Cologne Chamber Orchestra (Principal), Theater Nordhausen (Principal), Philharmonie Essen, Dusseldorfer Sinfoniker, Staatstheater Koblenz and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Since immigrating to Australia in 2001, Stefan has recorded the 6th Brandenburg Concerto for the ABC and is regularly playing with the Sydney Philharmonia Orchestra, the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra.
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