Violinist Frank Stadler has been first concertmaster of the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg since 1999. His most important teacher was Helmut Zehetmair at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, where he studied and graduated with honours, before becoming Zehetmair’s assistant. This was followed by studies with Ruggiero Ricci and masterclasses with Thomas Brandis. He then directed the violin classes at the Mozarteum and at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz. Frank Stadler is the dedicatee of various contemporary violin sonatas and concertos, including by Bogusław Schaeffer, Kuzma Bodrov, Vladimir Rosinsky, Herbert Grassl, Hossam Mahmoud and Theodor Burkali. As a soloist, he has appeared at the Musikverein in Vienna, the Grosses Festspielhaus in Salzburg and the Warsaw Autumn Festival, as well as performing with orchestras such as the Tonkünstler Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Pays de la Loire, the International Players of Busan, the Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra, the Camerata da Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, the österreichisches ensemble für neue musik, the Cairo Symphony Orchestra and the Egyptian Sinfonietta.
The stadler quartet, which he founded in 1993, has gained an international reputation in the field of contemporary music and has been a guest at the Salzburg Festival on several occasions. It currently performs regularly at the International Mozarteum Foundation. The Quartet’s recordings of works by Helmut Lachenmann and Friedrich Cerha have won numerous prizes. Its current focus is the music of Polish-Jewish composer Mieczysław Weinberg and the stadler quartet will perform much of his chamber music over the course of the next couple of seasons.
