Alexander Edelmann

Alexander Edelmann (b. 1990) began playing the double bass at the age of 13 and studied with Todd Seeber at Boston University. He later received a master’s degree at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” with Matthew McDonald, and in 2021 completed the Konzertexamen at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf under Prof. Rick Stotijn, as the first double bassist accepted into the program.

Since 2024, Edelmann has been alternating solo double bass in the Oslo Opera orchestra. He regularly performs as a soloist with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Swedish Orchestra, and has played with the bass groups of the Berliner Philharmoniker, Bayerischer Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

He has participated in festivals such as Krzyżowa, Tanglewood, Kronberg, Pacific, Moritzburg, Zermatt, Bebersee and Domaine Forget. As a soloist he has performed Nino Rota’s Divertimento Concertante with the Baden-Baden Philharmonic, the Vanhal Concerto in the Konzerthaus Dortmund as a laureate of the Mozart Gesellschaft Dortmund, and Dittersdorf’s Sinfonia Concertante with the Leopold Mozart Chamber Orchestra.

Edelmann has a strong commitment to teaching and joined the Barratt Due in 2025.

His chamber music collaborators include Antje Weithaas, Ben Beilman, Tabea Zimmermann, Lars Anders Tomter, Antoine Tamestit, Augustin Dumay, Jan Vogler, Stefan Dohr and members of the Armida, Kuss and Artemis quartets. In 2018 he took part in the Kronberg Academy’s Chamber Music Connects the World, where he played with Christian Tetzlaff and Gidon Kremer. He has been supported by Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz (since 2015) and the Mozart Gesellschaft Dortmund (since 2016).

He plays a 2017 double bass made by Christopher Savino, acquired with support from the Friends of Villa Musica, as well as a five-string orchestral bass from 1850 by Johann Rieger III.