Years active 2008-present | ||
Born August 1984 (age 32) Turku, Finland Occupation Music director, pianist, conductor, composer | ||
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Martin Segerstråle (BA MMus PGDip DipRAM), born August 31, 1984 in Turku, Finland, is a Finnish music director, pianist, conductor and composer.
Segerstråle studied Musical Direction and Coaching at the Royal Academy of Music in London and held his MMus final recitals in choral conducting and piano at the Sibelius Academy in the spring of 2015. He also studied musicology at Åbo Akademi University. Segerstråle has worked as répétiteur and accompanist, lied pianist and soloist.
Martin Segerstråle started composing at the age of 11 and his works were first performed the next year. His catalogue includes symphonies, piano concertos, a violin concerto and several chamber music works and choral music.
Segerstråle has conducted several choirs in Finland and was artistic leader of the Studentkören Brahe Djäknar student choir in 2010. Segerstråle was one of the founding members and first artistic leader of the chamber ensemble Ensemble Vida. He was also bass principal for the chamber choir Key Ensemble for many years.
Segerstråle received the Finlands Svenska Sång- och Musikförbund conducting prize, Kurt-Erik Långbacka-priset, in October 2014. In the spring of 2015, he was awarded the Svenska Kulturfonden annual culture prize for outstanding contributions to the music life of Finland.
In 2017, Segerstråle will be the MD of Andrew Lloyd-Webber's musical Cats in Tampere, Finland.