Lionel Martin, Jae Hong Park, Ben Goldscheider, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Howard Griffiths
Biography Lionel Martin, Jae Hong Park, Ben Goldscheider, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Howard Griffiths
Lionel Martin
“Sounds borne on the wings of Apollo that spread their arms wide, and whose beauty and spiritual depth are hard to believe,” is how the Südwest-Presse describes the playing of Tübingen-born cellist Lionel Martin (*2003). Anne-Sophie Mutter deems him to be “A wonderfully sensitive artist who reacts spontaneously and has great imagination.” With extraordinary charisma as a soloist and keenly sensitive chamber music playing, he is one of the most sought-after artists of his generation.
Martin’s most recent success was winning the Ton & Erklärung cello competition in Hanover in 2022. That same year, he was awarded the Bruno Frey Music Prize by the Landesakademie Ochsenhausen. Prior to this, upon being named winner of the Prix Young Artist of the Year at the Bad Wörishofen Festival of Nations in 2019, he performed Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme together with the Festival Orchestra. Further accolades include first prize at the Perusia Harmonica International Competition and achieving the maximum score at Germany’s national Jugend Musiziert competition on six occasions.
Lionel Martin was made a scholarship holder of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation in 2017, and has since performed regularly with Anne-Sophie Mutter in major concert halls across the world, including the Elbphilharmonie, Berlin Philharmonie, Wiener Concert-Verein, KKL Luzern, Teatro Colón and Carnegie Hall. In doing so, he has likewise shared the stage with Lambert Orkis, Daniel Müller-Schott and Daniel Hope.
Martin regularly performs as a soloist with renowned orchestras such as the NDR Radiophilharmonie, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, SWR Symphonieorchester, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra, Camerata Schweiz, Klaipėda Chamber Orchestra and Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie.
Numerous recitals have taken him to the Lucerne Festival, Oberstdorfer Musiksommer, and Beethovenfest Bonn, among others. A variety of joint concerts performed with his brother, the pianist Demian Martin, have been broadcast by BR, hr, SWR, WDR and ARTE. The duo’s ability to spontaneously improvise on pieces suggested by the audience has garnered widespread media attention.
In 2021, Lionel Martin was selected for the “SWR2 New Talent” programme. This resulted in a series of interviews, recordings and concerts, including as a soloist with the SWR Symphonieorchester at Stuttgart’s Liederhalle during the summer of 2023. His contributions can be heard on radio stations both in Germany and abroad, and he was a featured musician in the 2022-23 Euroradio Top Young Performers Series established by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).
Furthermore, SWR2 also produced Martin’s debut album, on which he joins forces with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and the SWR Vokalensemble to interpret Tavener’s cello concerto “The Protecting Veil” as well as his “Svyati”. The CD was released in April 2023 on the SWRmusic label.
Lionel Martin began playing the cello aged five at Tübingen Music School with Joseph Hasten, who taught him for twelve years. He has been studying with Professor Thomas Grossenbacher at Zurich University of the Arts since 2020. Tuition from Lynn Harrell, Martti Rousi, Jens Peter Maintz, Jan Vogler and Yo-Yo Ma has likewise provided him with formative musical inspiration.
Since October 2024, Lionel Martin has been studying at Kronberg Academy with Frans Helmerson. His studies are funded by the Arpeggione Scholarship.
Jae Hong Park
is praised for his mesmerizing virtuosity and astounding stage presence. Described as “fearless” and “meticulous” artist, Jae Hong has emerged as one of the most sought-after pianists of his generation with his triumph from 2021 Feruccio Busoni International Piano Competition, where he not only received the first prize but also four special prizes.
Also winner of the Gina Bachauer and the Cleveland International Piano Competition for Young Artists, he has won top prizes at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Masters Competition, Ettlingen International Competition and many others.
Jae Hong has performed with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Utah Symphony Orchestra, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali, Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, European Union Youth Orchestra to name a few, and worked with leading conductors such as Myung-Whun Chung, Gianandrea Noseda, Markus Stenz, Yoel Levi, Kristjan Jarvi, Tung-Chieh Chuang, Omer Meir Wellber, James Feddeck, Avner Biron, Arvo Volmer and many others.
Mr. Park has performed at the Grafenegg Festival, Bolzano Festival Bozen, Incontri in Terra di Siena, Lingotto Musica (Torino), Musica Insieme (Bologna), Tongyeong International Music Festival and many other leading festivals and performed in leading concert halls, such as Gewandhaus (Leipzig), Wigmore Hall (London), Suntory Hall (Tokyo), Teatro Politeama (Pallermo), Teatro Comunale (Ferrara) and many other venues.
Ben Goldscheider
has premiered over 50 new works for horn, spanning concerti, solo, chamber, and cross-genre projects—including those incorporating live electronics and lighting. In the 2025–26 season, he gives world premiere performances of Sirens by Anna Clyne with the London Mozart Players, and Laurence Osborn’s Horn Concerto with Manchester Camerata.
Ben also debuts with Magdeburg Philharmonic (Christian Øland) performing Gavin Higgins’ Horn Concerto, and returns to BBC National Orchestra of Wales (Ryan Bancroft). Recent highlights include the world premiere of Brian Elias’ Horn Concerto with BBC Symphony Orchestra (Sakari Oramo) at the Aldeburgh Festival, the Irish premiere of Higgins’ concerto with the Ulster Orchestra (Paweł Kapuła) and performances with Tokyo Philharmonic and Aichi Chamber Orchestra. Other notable debuts include Uppsala Chamber Orchestra (Rebecca Miller) with the Swedish premiere of Huw Watkins’ Horn Concerto, as well as performances with Norwegian Radio Orchestra (Jamie Phillips) and London Philharmonic Orchestra (Valentina Peleggi).
Ben has given recitals at major concert halls across Europe, including the Concertgebouw, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Kölner Philharmonie, Musikverein, Pierre Boulez Saal, Southbank Centre, and Wigmore Hall. As a soloist, he has appeared with orchestras such as the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, BBC NOW, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (BBC Proms), Das Sinfonie Orchester Berlin, Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Lucerne Symphony, Munich Chamber Orchestra (Klosters Music), Musikkollegium Winterthur, Philharmonie Zuidnederland, Prague Philharmonia, Tapiola Sinfonietta, and the Ulster Orchestra.
A committed chamber musician, Ben has collaborated with leading artists including Daniel Barenboim, Martha Argerich, Sergei Babayan, Kirill Gerstein, Denis Kozhukhin, Sunwook Kim, Clara Jumi-Kang, and Allan Clayton at festivals such as Verbier, Salzburg, Jerusalem, Intonations (Berlin), and Barenboim (Buenos Aires). In recital, he has worked with Michael Barenboim, Stephen Hough, Tom Poster, Benjamin Baker, Giuseppe Guarrera and Richard Uttley, and is a member of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective. In 2025, Ben was Artist-in-Residence at the Barnes Music Festival, appearing in both concerto and chamber music performances. Upcoming highlights include a return to the U.S. with Camerata Pacifica in Santa Barbara and a recital at the Boulez Saal with Alina Ibragimova (violin) and Dénes Várjon (piano), as well as a programme of works for horn and electronics.
His recordings include Legacy: A Tribute to Dennis Brain (Three Worlds Records), featuring newly commissioned works by Huw Watkins and Roxanna Panufnik, and a solo concerto album with the Philharmonia Orchestra (conducted by Lee Reynolds), featuring works by Arnold, Schoenberg, and Gipps. Ben also recorded the iconic horn call from Wagner’s Siegfried with the Hallé Orchestra under Sir Mark Elder.
Ben is Principal Horn of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and a Principal Player of Camerata Pacifica. He is also a a member of the Boulez Ensemble. He holds a professorship at the Royal Conservatory in Antwerp and serves as Artist in Association at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.
Born in London in 1997, Ben studied at the Royal College of Music Junior Department with Susan Dent, and in 2020 completed his studies with honours at the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin with Radek Baborák. He was a prize-winner at the 2019 YCAT International Auditions, a concerto finalist in the 2016 BBC Young Musician Competition, and was nominated by the Barbican as an ECHO Rising Star for the 2021/22 season.
