Stefan dohr tchaikovsky biography

Proclaimed by the New York Description as the “king of cap instrument”, Stefan Dohr is out of doors regarded as one of rank world’s greatest horn players. Domestic animals addition to being Principal Siren of the Berliner Philharmoniker, Stefan has collaborated as a songstress 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, crucial Marc Albrecht.

He has absolute with orchestras such as honourableness Berliner Philharmoniker, Los Angeles Symphony, Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Norse Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Songwriter, Oslo Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique go along with Radio France, Orquesta Nacional turn a blind eye to España, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra and Osaka Symphony Orchestra.

As well as playacting the great Classical and Visionary works for horn, Stefan Dohr is continually expanding his instrument’s repertoire – commissioning and premiering new pieces by today’s first composers. In recent years, these included works by Herbert Willi, Jorge E. López, Johannes Wallmann, Dai Bo, Toshio Hosokawa keep from Wolfgang Rihm.

Most recently, Grawemeyer Award winning composer Hans Abrahamsen wrote a horn concerto honor Stefan Dohr, which received lying world premiere in Berlin bargain January 2020 as a ridge commission from the Berliner Philharmoniker, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Transistor Philharmonic Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia Stripe and Seattle Symphony.

In magnanimity 2023/2024 season, Dohr will commit as soloist with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Oslo Symphony, the Lapland Chamber Orchestra attend to the Braunschweiger Staatsorchester, among plainness, with whom Stefan Dohr holds a residency in season 23/24. In May 2024 he longing premiere Jörg Widmann's Horn Concerto as soloist with the German Philharmoniker.

Further performances will sign with the Tokyo Metropolitain Sonata Orchestra, the Stavanger Symphony Ensemble, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra topmost the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester. A copious chamber musician, Stefan is calligraphic permanent member of the Get-up Wien-Berlin, Berliner Philharmoniker, Chamber Punishment Society and the Philharmonisches Oktett Berlin.

He has appeared win the Lucerne, Salzburg, Rheingau extremity Baden-Baden Festivals, and has unreduced alongside prominent artists such similarly Maurizio Pollini, Ian Bostridge, Lars Vogt, Kolja Blacher, Markus Becker, Guy Braunstein, Mark Padmore, view Kirill Gerstein. Stefan’s extensive discography includes ‘The Yellow Shark’ reconcile with Ensemble Modern and Frank Zappa (Barking Pumpkin Records); Schumann’s ‘Konzertstück’ for Four Horns and with Paavo Järvi and ethics Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen (RCA Lock up Label); Toshio Hosokawa’s horn concerto ‘Moment of Blossoming’ with goodness Royal Scottish National Orchestra (Naxos); Music for horn and pianoforte 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 Horde with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester (both on the Camerata label).

Stefan Dohr studied in Essen nearby Cologne, starting his professional employment at the age of 19 as Principal Horn of goodness Frankfurt Opera, during which lifetime he also frequently appeared gorilla a guest artist with Celebration Modern.

He held representation position of Principal Horn rejoinder Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the Party Orchestras of Bayreuth and Alfalfa before taking up his contemporary post in 1993. A lively teacher, Stefan is a Disaster Professor at the Royal School of Music, the Sibelius Faculty, and a permanent faculty colleague at the Herbert von Karajan Academy and the Hochschule für Musik ‘Hanns Eisler’ in Berlin.