Alexej Bröse © Markenfotografie

Alexej Bröse

Principal Percussion
in the orchestra since 2009

Alexej Bröse has been 1st percussionist with the Dresden Philharmonic since 2009. Previously, he gained orchestral experience in the European Union Youth Orchestra EUYO, at the National Theater Mannheim and as a scholarship holder of the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

After his first musical experiences on the piano, he discovered his love for the drums at the age of 16 and was accepted as a junior student in the class of Prof. Edgar Guggeis at the music high school "Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach" Berlin just one year later. After graduating from high school, he studied with Prof. Franz Schindlbeck, Prof. Rainer Seegers and Prof. Biao Li at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" Berlin.

Alexej Bröse received prizes at several national and international competitions, was awarded the "Fine Arts Award" of the Interlochen Arts Camp USA and performs worldwide with orchestras, as a soloist and as a soloist.
worldwide with orchestras, as a soloist and chamber musician, among others with the GrauSchumacher Piano Duo and the Ensemble Mediterrain.

Already during his studies Alexej Bröse was passionately engaged in teaching. Parallel to his percussion studies he received his diploma in pedagogy and teaches orchestral percussion at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden and is a lecturer for percussion at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin.