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Felix
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Background:
Felix Olschofka is originally from Bonn, Germany. He began his violin
studies at the age of five with his mother, and at fourteen he entered
pre-college studies with Professor Michael Gaiser at the "Robert
Schumann School of Music" in Düsseldorf.
After he graduated from the Academy
of Music "Hanns Eisler", Berlin, with a Master's degree
in 1999, he moved to Bloomington, Indiana, to join the class of Professor
Mauricio Fuks at Indiana University.
In December 2001 Mr. Olschofka graduated with a Performance Diploma. Besides
teaching as the assistant to Professor Fuks, Mr. Olschofka was promoted
to Associate Instructor of Violin at Indiana University in 2002.
At the age of fourteen his recordings of Beethoven and Schubert Violin
Sonatas for a German broadcasting station received national recognition.
Since then numerous live-performances and recordings by him have broadcast
on German radio and television.
In 1993 Mr. Olschofka gave his international debut at the Seoul
Arts Center with the Seoul Symphony Orchestra and also made his first
recordings with the Seoul Symphony Orchestra for Korean television and
radio. Since then he has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in
multiple concerts throughout Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, the
Netherlands, Romania, South Korea, Mexico and the United States.
As a soloist and former member of various chamber music groups such as
the Trio Vivo Bonn and the Zeiher Quartet, Mr. Olschofka has appeared
at numerous festivals, including the Interlochen
Arts Camp, the Schleswig-Holstein
Festival, and the European Music Academy Bonn. In 1997 he jointed
the faculty of the Pusan Chamber Music Festival of South Korea.
As a chamber musician, Mr. Olschofka has collaborated with internationally
acclaimed artists and ensembles such as the Trio
Fontenay, Brandis Quartet, Beaux Arts Trio, Gregory Sebok, Menahem
Pressler, Tatjana
Grindenko, Roman Kofman, David
Effron.
Mr. Olschofka is a winner of numerous awards and competitions, including
1st prize of the prestigious German Youth Music Competition (Solo Instrument
and Chamber Music Category), 2nd prize of the International Chamber Music
Competition "Charles Hennen" in the Netherlands and a grant
of the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation.
His professional background includes service as Concertmaster of the Terre
Haute Symphony Orchestra from 2000-2003 and Assistant Concertmaster of
the Brandenburg Philharmonic in Potsdam, Germany, for its 1998 / 99 -season.
In August 2003 Mr. Olschofka jointed the faculty of the School of Music
and Dance at San Diego State University as Assistant Professor of Violin
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