{{Short description|Austrian percussionist}} {{Expand German|topic=bio|Martin Grubinger|date=May 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Martin Grubinger | image = Martin Grubinger.jpg | caption = Grubinger in 2023 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1983|05|23|df=y}} | birth_place = Salzburg, Austria | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = {{ubl| Percussionist | Academic teacher }} | organizations = Mozarteum | awards = }} '''Martin Grubinger''' ({{IPA|de|ˌmaʁtiːn ˈɡʁuːbɪŋɐ|lang|De-Martin Grubinger.ogg}}born 29 May 1983 in Salzburg) is an Austrian multi-percussionist.
== Life and career == Born in Salzburg, Grubinger received his first instruction from his father, Martin Grubinger sen., a percussionist and percussion instructor at the Mozarteum. At an early age, he competed in the World Marimba Competition in Okaya, Nagano (Japan) and the EBU Competition in Norway, where he was a finalist. He studied at the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz and starting in 2000 at the Mozarteum.
Since academic year 2018/19, Grubinger is a professor of classical percussion at the Mozarteum.
=== Career === Grubinger represented Austria at the Eurovision Young Musicians 2000 in Bergen, Norway.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ebu.ch/projects/tv/music/eurovision-young-musicians|title=Eurovision Young Musicians|first=|last=|date=15 May 2018|website=www.ebu.ch|publisher=European Broadcasting Union (EBU)}}</ref> In 2007 he was awarded the Leonard Bernstein Award of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival and in 2010 won the Würth Prize of Jeunesses Musicales Germany, a prize of the {{Interlanguage link multi|Stiftung Würth|de}} (Würth Foundation).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.klassikinfo.de/NEWS-Single.54+M538f1c90319.0.html|title=Percussionist Martin Grubinger erhält diesjährigen Leonard Bernstein Award beim Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival|publisher=Klassikinfo.de|accessdate=11 May 2015|language=German|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304073905/http://www.klassikinfo.de/NEWS-Single.54+M538f1c90319.0.html|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stiftung-wuerth.de/web/de/stiftung_wuerth/foerderbeispiele/jeunesses_musicales_de/jeunesses_musicales_de.php|title=Würth Preis der Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland|publisher=Stiftung-wuerth.de|accessdate=11 May 2015|language=German}}</ref>
He was one of the presenters of the Eurovision Young Musicians 2012, held in Vienna. Three years later he performed again in Vienna as an interval act in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.eurovision.tv/page/news?id=star_percussionist_revealed_as_eurovision_interval_act|title=Star percussionist revealed as Eurovision interval act}}</ref>
In 2023, he ended his concert career.<ref name="nmz - neue musikzeitung 2023 h507">{{cite web | title=Perkussionist Grubinger: Bühnen-Abschied mit 40 nach großer Karriere | website=nmz – neue musikzeitung | date=23 September 2023 | url=https://www.nmz.de/menschen/perkussionist-grubinger-buehnen-abschied-mit-40-nach-grosser-karriere | language=de | access-date=25 September 2023}}</ref>
=== Personal life === Grubinger is married to the pianist Ferzan Önder since 2009 and they have a son.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nachrichten.at/kultur/Ferhan-und-Ferzan-OEnder-im-Interview-Ihr-seid-Tuerkinnen-und-spielt-Klavier;art16,644002|title=Ferhan und Ferzan Önder im Interview: "Ihr seid Türkinnen und spielt Klavier?"|publisher=Nachrichten.at|date=7 June 2011|access-date=12 May 2024|language=de}}</ref>
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == {{commons category}} * {{official website|http://www.martingrubinger.at/}} * [http://www.musicaustria.at/magazin/grubinger-martin/mica-interview-mit-martin-grubinger mica-Interview mit Martin Grubinger], musicaustria.at, 5 October 2010
{{S-start}} {{Succession box| | before=Emmelie de Forest | title=Eurovision Song Contest<br>Final Interval act | years=2015 | after=Justin Timberlake }} {{S-end}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Grubinger, Martin}} Category:Austrian drummers Category:Deutsche Grammophon artists Category:Male drummers Category:1983 births Category:Living people Category:Musicians from Salzburg Category:21st-century drummers Category:21st-century Austrian male musicians Category:Classical percussionists