Martin Streule is a Swiss musician located in Bern. In 1997 he founded his Martin Streule Jazz Orchestra, which since 1998 presented four albums with his own compositions and arrangements. He also worked as a conductor with various orchestras such as the Swiss Jazz Orchestra, the Zurich Jazz Orchestra, the Feldmusik Sarnen and the Lukas Brügger Jazz Orchestra. He was also the artistic director of the Bodan Art Orchestra in Eastern Switzerland for many years. He composed and arranged on behalf of the Swiss Army Big Band, the Symphonic Wind Orchestra Bern, the Bern Chamber Orchestra and other ensembles.
Streule is a teacher of electrobass and ensemble playing at the Swiss Jazz School, but also as a lecturer for arrangement and composition at the Zurich University of the Arts as well as a lecturer for arrangement, composition and conducting at the Bern University of the Arts.
Streule was a finalist at the international conductor competition of the Grenchen Music Prize with the Camerata St.Petersburg; with his Martin Streule Jazz Orchestra he won the Jazzpreis of the Zürcher Kantonalbank in 2003.