Martin Wittenberg

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Trombonist Martin Wittenberg has led a varied career as an orchestral and chamber trombonist in Europe and the US. After studies in Germany, Los Angeles, and at the Yale School of Music, he performed for two years with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra as part of their orchestral academy program. From 2006 until 2009, Martin played over 300 concerts as principal trombonist with the Philharmonia of the Nations in prestigious concert halls and performance venues from Amsterdam to Shanghai. In addition, Martin has performed and recorded extensively with chamber ensembles such as Munich Brass, European Brass Academy, and Ensemble Classique as well as with many orchestras, most notably the Hof Symphony in Germany, with which he has played in hundreds of concerts and opera, operetta, musical, and ballet performances.
Martin has performed under conductors such as Roberto Abbado, Herbert Blomstedt, Sir Andrew Davis, Riccardo Chailly, Manfred Honeck, James Judd, Oliver Knussen, Andrew Litton and Kurt Masur, and in major concert halls throughout Europe, the US, China, and Japan. An avid soloist, he has appeared in concert with piano, organ, choir, brass quintet, and ensemble. As a soloist with professional and student orchestras in Germany and the US, he has performed trombone concertos by Bozza, Creston, David, Gröndahl, Larsson, and Rimsky-Korsakov.
As a teacher and pedagogue, Martin was on the faculty of the Dunningen Music School in Germany, has taught privately in Germany and the US, and was a teaching assistant for trombone, music history, and hearing at the Yale School of Music. He has designed and presented educational concerts for children as well as taught low brass and directed brass ensembles as part of the Philharmonia of the Nations’s outreach program “Klassik for Kids”.
Martin was born and raised in Germany, in the Northern Bavarian town of Rehau. He moved to Boston in September 2009 to pursue a DMA degree at Boston University. In Boston, he regularly performs with groups such as Boston Modern Orchestra Project and the Brockton Symphony and he is on the faculty of the Longy School of Music, where he teaches trombone and low brass in the preparatory and continuing studies division.