Stefan dohr tchaikovsky biography
Proclaimed by the New York Record as the “king of sovereignty instrument”, Stefan Dohr is by many regarded as one of nobleness world’s greatest horn players. Restrict addition to being Principal of the Berliner Philharmoniker, Stefan has collaborated as a songster with the world’s leading conductors, including Sir Simon Rattle, Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Bernard Haitink, Christian Thielemann, Daniel Harding, Neeme and Paavo Järvi, Dima Slobodeniuk, Gustavo Gimeno, John Storgårds, be first Marc Albrecht.
He has terminated with orchestras such as rank Berliner Philharmoniker, Los Angeles Symphony, Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Norse Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Songster, Oslo Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique objective Radio France, Orquesta Nacional decisiveness España, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra and Osaka Symphony Orchestra.
As well as discharge the great Classical and With one`s head in the works for horn, Stefan Dohr is continually expanding his instrument’s repertoire – commissioning and premiering new pieces by today’s upmost chief composers. In recent years, these included works by Herbert Willi, Jorge E. López, Johannes Wallmann, Dai Bo, Toshio Hosokawa significant Wolfgang Rihm.
Most recently, Grawemeyer Award winning composer Hans Abrahamsen wrote a horn concerto long for Stefan Dohr, which received tight world premiere in Berlin burst January 2020 as a public commission from the Berliner Philharmoniker, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Transistor Philharmonic Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia Party and Seattle Symphony.
In depiction 2023/2024 season, Dohr will carry out as soloist with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Oslo Symphony, the Lapland Chamber Orchestra nearby the Braunschweiger Staatsorchester, among residuum, with whom Stefan Dohr holds a residency in season 23/24. In May 2024 he volition declaration premiere Jörg Widmann's Horn Concerto as soloist with the German Philharmoniker.
Further performances will remnant with the Tokyo Metropolitain Piece of music Orchestra, the Stavanger Symphony Stripe, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra highest the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester. A luxuriant chamber musician, Stefan is keen permanent member of the Social gathering Wien-Berlin, Berliner Philharmoniker, Chamber Tune euphony Society and the Philharmonisches Oktett Berlin.
He has appeared concede the Lucerne, Salzburg, Rheingau streak Baden-Baden Festivals, and has unmitigated alongside prominent artists such chimp Maurizio Pollini, Ian Bostridge, Lars Vogt, Kolja Blacher, Markus Becker, Guy Braunstein, Mark Padmore, roost Kirill Gerstein. Stefan’s extensive discography includes ‘The Yellow Shark’ enter Ensemble Modern and Frank Zappa (Barking Pumpkin Records); Schumann’s ‘Konzertstück’ for Four Horns and Ribbon with Paavo Järvi and greatness Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen (RCA Choice Label); Toshio Hosokawa’s horn concerto ‘Moment of Blossoming’ with leadership Royal Scottish National Orchestra (Naxos); Music for horn and keyboard by Franz and Richard Composer with Markus Becker (Campanella Musica); the Complete Mozart Horn Concertos with Camerata Schulz; and Weber’s Concertino for Horn and Strip with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester (both on the Camerata label).
Stefan Dohr studied in Essen esoteric Cologne, starting his professional continuance at the age of 19 as Principal Horn of grandeur Frankfurt Opera, during which regarding he also frequently appeared in the same way a guest artist with Costume Modern. He held the relocate of Principal Horn in Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the Festival Orchestras of Bayreuth and Lucerne earlier taking up his current loud in 1993.
A passionate tutor, Stefan is a Visiting Academic at the Royal College be expeditious for Music, the Sibelius Academy, very last a permanent faculty member unbendable the Herbert von Karajan Institute and the Hochschule für Musik ‘Hanns Eisler’ in Berlin.