Albrecht Menzel, born in 1992, received his first violin instruction at the age of four and made his solo debut at 13 at the Dresden Music Festival. He was trained by the renowned violin pedagogue Professor Boris Kuschnir and is now studying with Professor Julian Rachlin at the Vienna Conservatory University.

He has meanwhile won prizes at numerous national and international music competitions and received a stipend of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation in Frankfurt, amongst others.

He has selected a Schumann/Ernst programme for his first CD released by OehmsClassics, and chosen a partner who is meanwhile far from unknown at Oehms-Classics: Amir Katz.