Martin Höhmann

Martin is a member of the LPO First Violin section and President of the Board of Directors.

He was born in Germany and studied with Uwe-Martin Haiberg at the Musikhochschule Lübeck and with Thomas Brandis at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin. He also received additional chamber music coaching from Walter Levin, Heinrich Schiff, Miriam Fried and Christoph Poppen.

As a soloist he has appeared with orchestras including the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, the Hamburger Camerata, the Philharmonica Hungarica and the Berliner Sinfoniker, and he has been invited to play at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, and at the festivals of Salzburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Menorca.

In 2000 he joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra as a member of the First Violin section. In 2003 he joined the Orchestra’s Board of Directors; he was Chairman from 2005–12 and has been President since 2019.