Kai Strobel is 1st prize winner & winner of the Audience Award of the 68th International ARD Music Competition 2019.

Born in 1992, the percussionist has performed as a soloist with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana Lugano, the Vallès Symphony Orchestra, the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria, the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra, the Asko-Schönberg Orchestra Amsterdam, the Musicum Collegium Basel, the Württemberg Philharmonic Orchestra and the St. Petersburg State Orchestra, among others.

He is a scholarship holder of Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and the Deutsche Musikwettbewerb, as well as a laureate of the Mozarteum University Summer Academy in Salzburg.

As a sought-after chamber musician, he has recorded numerous CDs, including recordings with argentinian bandoneonist Omar Massa.

Kai Strobel is professor of percussion at the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana in Lugano, Switzerland and visiting professor at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. In academic year 25/26 he is Artist-in-Residence at the Kunstuniversität Graz, following his residency at HMTM Hanover in 26/27.

He is regularly invited at beknown music festivals including Shenzhen Belt and Road Music Festival, Jianli Percussion Festival Beijing, IPEA Shanghai, JIPA Academy Korea, and as guest lecturer at universities including Eastman School of Music, Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig, Mt San Antonio College Los Angeles, Leeds Conservatoire, Royal Northern College of Music and Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music Budapest among others.

In addition, together with his chamber music partner and brother Marc Strobel, he founded the Boum Percussion Academy, a music course for percussion students from all over the world, which has been held annually in the Stuttgart area since 2021.