Kai Strobel is 1st place winner and recipient of the audience award at the 68th ARD Music Competition 2019. As a soloist, the 1992 born percussionist has performed with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, the Tonkünstler Orchester Niederösterreich, the Berlin Symphonic Orchestra, the Asko| Schönberg Orchestra Amsterdam, the Musicum Collegium Basel and the St. Petersburg State Capella Symphony Orchestra, among others. He is a scholarship recipient of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and the German Music Competition, and an honoree of the Mozarteum International Summer Academy.

Since 2022 Kai Strobel got appointed Professor at the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana in Lugano and is the International Visiting Tutor at the RNCM Manchester. As a lecturer Kai is regularly invited for Masterclasses such as Eastman School of Music (Rochester), University für Music und Theatre Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (Leipzig), Mt San Antonio College (Los Angeles), Leeds Conservatoire (Leeds) und Royal Northern College of Music in (Manchester). Furthermore together with his chamber music partner and brother Marc Strobel he initialized the Boum-Percussion Academy, a Music Workshop for young students from all around the world, which takes place since 2021 every year in the Region of their Hometown Stuttgart/ Germany.

Being endorsed by companies like ADAMS Musical Instruments, Zultan Cymbals and Meinl Percussion, Kai also does research on innovations in percussion instruments. In the newly founded ensemble including percussion, bandoneon and piano, Kai puts his instrument in a innovative chamber music focus. Especially in the rhythmic structure and the powerful character of the Tango Nuevo, Kai saw many parallels and fitting parameters for an innovative continuing of the Genre while at the same time valuing the music’s rules and norms.