- Teacher's Diploma (Academy of Music, Basel, Switzerland)
- Soloist's Diploma (Academy of Music, Basel, Switzerland)
Senior Lecturer in Cello
Contact details for Mr Markus Stocker
Research/Creative Expertise
- Concerts and master classes in over 50 countries;
- Solo performances with orchestras on five continents;
- Numerous LP and CD recordings of solo repertoire and chamber music;
- Several cycles of the Bach Cello Suites and Beethoven Sonatas;
- Regular recital activity and performance of chamber music for piano trio and other combinations including performance of newly commissioned works by internationally acclaimed composer.
Teaching and Other Experience
- Member, Queensland Conservatorium Ensemble-in-Residence, Griffith Trio;
- ?Grand Prix? at the International Cello Competition in Paris 1972;
- Winner of the Young Performer Concerto Competition of the Swiss Broadcast Corporation 1973;
- Associate Professor, Indiana University (USA);
- Principal Cellist, Winterthur Symphony Orchestra, member of Winterthur String Quartet (Switzerland);
- Professor of Cello, Musikhochschule Winterthur/Zurich;
- Professor, International Summer Academy Bern (Switzerland);
- Honorary Guest Professor, Conservatorium of Music, Shenyang (China), Xinghai Conservatorium Guangzhou (China), China Conservatorium and Central Conservatorium Beijing, and Vietnam National Academy of Music (Hanoi).