For decades, he has enthusiastically passed on his experience as a leading member of the Berlin Philharmonic, as a founding member of the Brandis Quartet and other internationally active chamber music ensembles to his students.
He is very positive about his new workplace: "I am looking forward to working with a team that I feel very close to, both personally and artistically. In my experience, good cooperation is very beneficial for the development of students. As a Swabian by birth, Nuremberg offers me a familiar atmosphere. The university offers very good working conditions with its combination of tradition and modernity as well as excellent organisation and facilities."
I want to prepare the students for their professional lives in the best possible way, comprehensively and according to their individual abilities. By working with the world's greatest soloists and conductors, I have gained experience that I have been enthusiastically passing on to my students for decades.
Vita Wilfrid Strehle, viola
At the age of 20, after studying in Detmold and Stuttgart, Wilfrid Strehle began his career with the Berlin Philharmonic under Herbert von Karajan, as principal viola from 1984 to 2013.
Since 2001 he has been a visiting professor for viola at the Berlin University of the Arts and from 2017 to 2020 at the Barenboim-Said Academy. Here he devotes himself intensively to teaching solo and chamber music, as well as to the orchestral training of his students. He has also taught at the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Academy for decades. Many of his students have become members of his own orchestra or of the most prestigious European orchestras, including those in Berlin, Vienna, Munich, Dresden and Hamburg, and have successfully applied for professorships themselves. He is much in demand as a teacher of master classes in Europe and overseas, including the Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg and universities in Yale (USA), Beijing, Shanghai, Moscow and Tokyo.
He continues to devote himself to solo and chamber music activities. In 1976 he co-founded the Brandis Quartet Berlin and has played in numerous ensembles of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, with whom he has toured South America, Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa and the USA.
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