 | This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification .(April 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) |
Sergio Azzolini (born 1967, in Bolzano) is an Italian bassoonist and music conductor. [1]
| This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification .(April 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) |
Sergio Azzolini (born 1967, in Bolzano) is an Italian bassoonist and music conductor. [1]
Azzolini was born in Bolzano, Italy in 1967 and learned bassoon after his mother suggested being a musician would provide a long term job for him. [2]
He studied from 1978 to 1985 at Conservatorio Claudio Monteverdi in Bolzano with Romano Santi and then at Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, under Klaus Thunemann, with whom he studied until 1989. At this time, he was already a soloist in the European Union Youth Orchestra.
Azzolini has won awards at "Prague Spring", "C.M. von Weber" Competition and "ARD Münich". He has recorded many productions of chamber music and soloistic performances for EMI records, Naïve, Sony and Chandos. He also performs with his ensemble Il Proteo and is a member of Ma'alot Quintetts, Sabine Meyer Bläserensemble, Maurice Bourgue Trio and several ensembles of early music on period instruments - Parnassi Musici, Sonatori della Gioiosa Marca, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Collegium 1704 and Ensemble Capriccio. Azzolini regularly appears as a soloist on authentic historical bassoons with ensembles L'Aura Soave Cremona, La Stravaganza Köln,Sonatori della Gioiosa Marca. [1]
He is working on recording all 39 of Vivaldi's bassoon concerti and has recorded four volumes of Vivaldi's bassoon concertos for the "Vivaldi Edition" of the French recording company Naïve playing with ensembles L'Aura Soave Cremona and L'Onda Armonica.
He has been music professor at Hochschule in Stuttgart, and since 1998, is a professor of bassoon and chamber music at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel. [2] [1] He is regularly giving masterclasses in Europe and the world.
Antonio Janigro was an Italian cellist and conductor.
Simon Andrew Thomas Standage is an English violinist and conductor best known for playing and conducting music of the baroque and classical eras on original instruments.
Matthias Höfs is a German trumpeter.
Andreas Staier is a German pianist and harpsichordist.
Maurice Steger is a Swiss recorder player and conductor, mostly in Baroque music.
Volker David Kirchner was a German composer and violist. After studies of violin and composition at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory, the Hochschule für Musik Köln and the Hochschule für Musik Detmold, he worked for decades as a violist in the Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt. He was simultaneously the violist in the Kehr Trio founded by his violin teacher Günter Kehr, and a composer of incidental music at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden.
Giuliano Carmignola is an Italian violinist. Born in Treviso, he studied with his father, then with Luigi Ferro at the Venice Conservatory and afterwards with Nathan Milstein and Franco Gulli at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Italy and Henryk Szeryng at the Geneva Conservatory. In 1973, he was awarded a prize in the International Paganini Competition in Genoa.
Barbara Schlick is a German soprano who is particularly admired for interpretations of the concert literature of the baroque era.
Klaus Thunemann is a German bassoonist.
Wolfgang Meyer was a German clarinetist and professor of clarinet at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe. He worked internationally as a soloist, in chamber music ensembles, and in jazz, with a repertoire from early music played on historical instruments to world premieres.
Ludger Rémy was a German harpsichordist, conductor and musicologist.
Bernd Redmann is a German composer and musicologist.
Susanne Regel is a German oboist working as solo artist and with international ensembles. She specializes in baroque oboe, the classical oboe, and the romantic oboe. Regel also teaches at several universities in Germany.
The 2011 Echo Klassik Awards were held on October 2, 2011. It is the 19th edition of the annual Echo Klassik awards for classical music. The ceremony took place in the Konzerthaus Berlin and was broadcast on ZDF. It was hosted by Thomas Gottschalk.
Werner Genuit was a German classical pianist, composer and teacher.
Dorothee Oberlinger is a German recorder player and professor.
Bram van Sambeek is a Dutch bassoon soloist and teacher.
Ralf Otto is a German conductor, especially known as a choral conductor and academic teacher. He founded the Vokalensemble Frankfurt, focused on contemporary music and winning competitions including Let the Peoples Sing. Since 1986, he has been director of the Bachchor Mainz, with a tradition of performing Bach cantatas in broadcast church services. He added late romantic and contemporary works to their repertoire and made international tours with them. They made world premiere recordings of some cantatas by Bach's oldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, among other recordings. Otto was professor of choral conducting at the Folkwang Hochschule from 1990 to 2006, when he took the same position at the Hochschule für Musik Mainz.
Christian Funke is a German violinist, concertmaster and Professor for violin. Since 1987 he has been the conductor of the Bachorchester of the Gewandhaus Leipzig.
Matthias Rácz is a German bassoonist.
