Jean-Marc Vogt
Viola
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Jean-Marc Vogt, born in 1963, grew up in a family of musicians and German scholars. His father gave him his first violin lesson when he was five and he was taught later on by Friedrich Riedel from the SWR Symphonieorchester Baden-Baden. He changed to the viola during a summer course run by Prof. Ulrich Koch in Perugia when he was 16. He then took lessons from Tomoko Shirao, a solo violist with the SWR Symphonie Orchester Baden-Baden. After leaving school a scholarship enabled him to study with the Lasalle Quartet and Prof. Dorothy Delay in Cincinnati, where he also met Michael Gielen. In 1984 he went on to further his studies at the University for Music in Freiburg with Prof. Ulrich Koch and then Prof. Kim Kashkashian. He went under contract to the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 1988 and joined the Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester in 1991. Tours with leading orchestras and conductors at home and abroad broadened his repertoire. He is actively involved, on a voluntary basis, advising young musicians about future professional conditions, is chairman of the DOV, a committee member of the German Orchesterstiftung, a jury member on competitions, a Präsidiums member of Hessen's Landesmusikrat and represents Germany as an expert for jobs in theatres for the European Commission.