歌手简介

简介：I prefer direct contact with other musicians through my instrument. Although I now have a more comprehensive picture of a composition than I did 20 years ago, I have no wish to exert control over a performance. The best results come when each musician feels invited to take part in an interpretation, the communication taking place through the musical flow.\n \nPresent-day\n \n \nSoloist\n \nArcanto-Quartett\n \nProfessor for Viola at the Academy of Music “Hanns Eisler” Berlin\n \nArtist in Residence in Hamburg with Ensemble Resonanz (2013-2015)\n \nFoundation Board Member of the Hindemith Foundation Blonay/Switzerland\n \nChairwoman of the Board of the Beethoven-Haus Bonn\n \nEarly years and education\n \nA career should never develop faster than one’s inner growth. Aspects like sound and tonal volume need their time to be developed. This isn’t just a question of the hands and musculature or of techniques. The imagination must develop as well.\n \n1966\nborn October 8th in Lahr/Black Forest\n1969\nstarted playing the viola with Dietmar Mantel, Music School Lahr\n1971\nstarted playing the piano with Klaus Rupprecht, individually\n1979-1986\nViola studies at the University of Music Freiburg with Ulrich Koch\n1986-1987\ncontinued studies with Sandor Végh at Mozarteum Salzburg\n \nCompetitions\n \nAll too often a young competition winner is taken up by an agency as the ‘new star’; the publicity machine starts rolling and the musician has to fulfill lots of engagements. He feels like a hamster in a wheel. Who can mature as an artist under such conditions? My advice to all young musicians is to trust their own instincts and allow themselves to grow. Only then is it possible for something out of the ordinary to happen.\n \n1972\n2. Prize Viola solo “Jugend musiziert” Germany\n1974\n1. Award Viola solo “Jugend musiziert” Germany\n1. Award Instrumental Cooperation “Jugend musiziert” (Trio) Germany\n \n1976\n1. Award Viola solo “Jugend musiziert” Germany\n2. Prize Chambermusic String Instruments “Jugend musiziert” (Trio) Germany\n \n1978\n1. Award Viola solo “Jugend musiziert” Germany\n1980\n1. Award String trio “Jugend musiziert” Germany\n1982\n1. Award Viola solo “Jugend musiziert” Germany\n1982\n1. Award at the Concours de Genève\n1983\n1. Award at the International Viola Competitions “Maurice Vieux” Paris, winning a Viola from Étienne Vatelot which she is playing still today\n1984\n1. Award Budapest Music Competitions\n \nTeaching\n \nI take a lot of trouble to create a spirit of community in my classes, so my students recognize that they are all individuals and don’t compete and measure themselves against one another.\n \n1987-1989\nyoungest professor in Germany at the Hochschule für Musik Saar Saarbrücken\n1994\nprofessor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt/Main\nsince 2002\nprofessor at the Academy of Music “Hanns Eisler” Berlin\n \nAwards\n \n2014\nEcho Klassik as intrumentalist of the year for her CD with compositions of Hindemith Vol. 1 for viola and orchestra\n2014\nHonorary Membership in the AVS – American Viola Society\n2012\nOrder of Merit of Baden-Württemberg\n2010\nEcho Klassik as instrumentalist of the year for her solo-CD with compositions of Reger and Bach\n2009\nOrder or Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia\n2006\nPaul Hindemith Award of the city of Hanau\n2002\nHessian Culture Award (Hessischer Kulturpreis)\n1999\nRheingau Music Award\nWürth Award of Jeunesses Musicales Germany\n1997\nInternational Award of the Accademia Musicale Chigiana Siena\n1995\nFrankfurt Music Prize\n \nArtist in Residence\n \nThe chance to be artist in residence entails being able to risk a more varied program.\n \n2013-2015\nwith Ensemble Resonanz, Hamburg\n2012-2013\nBamberg Symphony\nMai 2012\nBodenseefestival\n2009-2010\nElbe Philharmonic Orchestra Hamburg\n2008\nKunstfest Weimar\n2007-2008\nPhilharmonic Orchestra Luxemburg\n2006-2007\nPhilharmonic Orchestra Cologne\n1999\nCité de la Musique Paris\n \nMemberships\n \n2013\nMember of the board of the Hindemith Stiftung Blonay/Switzerland\n2013\nChairwoman of the board of the Beethoven-Haus, Bonn\n2012\nMember of the advisory board of the Musikkindergarten Berlin e.V.\n2011\nMember of the Academy of Sciences North Rhine-Westphalia\n2011\nAmbassador of the German Foundation for Children’s Hospices\n \nLiterature\n \nMichael Wessel: Üben Proben Karriere – 12 Interpreten im Gespräch, Bärenreiter 2012\nOrder at amazon.de