Biography English - short

Tobias Guttmann was born in 1978 in Hallein/Salzburg (Austria). At the age of seven he started playing percussion. From 1988 to 1993 he studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, after which he went to the Amsterdam Conservatory to study with Peter Prommel, Marinus Komst, Jan Pustjens and Viktor Oskam. Since 2003 he is preparing for his Master’s Degree. He took master classes with Christopher Lamb, Keiko Abe and Evelyn Glennie. Tobias Guttmann performed in Cagliari (Spazionusica) and Llubljana (ISCM World Music Days) with the Ensemble for New Music. He regularly plays in the Radio Chamber Orchestra, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Eighteenth century with conductors such as Simon Rattle, Peter Eötvös, Frans Bruggen, Thierry Fischer and Etienne Siebens. As a soloist he performed at the AMP Percussion Festival in Amsterdam, and won the second prize at the EMCY Percussion Competition Gradus ad Parnassum in Linz in 2003.