Sabine Meyer

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Sabine Meyer
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Photo 2019
Background information
Born (1959-03-30) March 30, 1959 (age 65)
Crailsheim, Germany
Genres Classical music, contemporary music
Occupation(s)Solo clarinetist and Professor for Clarinet
Instrument(s) Clarinet (German system)
Years active1983–present
LabelsEMI Classics, Warner Classis, Avi-music, Deutsche Grammophon
Website www.sabine-meyer.com
Teachers while studying:
Otto Hermann, Stuttgart and Hans Deinzer, Hannover

Well-known former students
Shirley Brill (Israel), Annelien Van Wauwe (Belgium)

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Performances per year:
approximately 60
Awards:
ECHO Klassik Prize, eight-time winner, Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Cross of Merit 1st Class, Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg, several art and music awards

Discography/Streaming:
numerous CDs, one DVD, several YouTube Videos, sound recordings also on Spotify and Deezer

Agent:
Konzertdirektion Hans Ulrich Schmid, Hannover
Personal / Private

Spouse, children:
Reiner Wehle, Clarinetist and Professor;
2 children
Hobbies:
riding and horse breeding

Residence:
Lübeck, Flag of Germany.svg  Germany

Sabine Meyer (born 30 March 1959) [1] is a German classical clarinetist.

Biography

Born in Crailsheim, Baden-Württemberg, Meyer began playing the clarinet at an early age. Her first teacher was her father, also a clarinetist. She studied with Otto Hermann in Stuttgart and then with Hans Deinzer at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover, along with her brother, clarinetist Wolfgang Meyer, and husband, clarinetist Reiner Wehle, who played later in the Munich Philharmonic. [2] She began her career as a member of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic, where her appointment as one of the orchestra's first female members caused controversy. [3] Herbert von Karajan, the orchestra's music director, hired Meyer in September 1982, but the players voted against her at the conclusion of her probation period by a vote of 73 to 4. [4] The orchestra insisted the reason was that her tone did not blend with the other members of the section, but some observers, including Karajan, believed that the true reason was her gender. In 1983, after nine months, Meyer left the orchestra to become a full-time solo clarinetist. [5]

In addition to her work as a soloist, and a band member in general, Sabine Meyer is a committed player of chamber music and plays all styles of classical music. She was a member of the Trio di Clarone along with her brother and husband who have recorded many CDs. [6] [7] Meyer and her wind quintet have worked as members of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra with Claudio Abbado. [8]

By the 1990s, Meyer had become a prominent solo clarinetist, recording regularly and exclusively for the EMI label. [9] These EMI recordings include a CD of French music for Clarinet and Piano with Oleg Maisenberg, entitled French Recital. A disc of clarinet concertos by Ludwig Spohr and Franz Krommer was released in July 2007, for which she collaborated with her student Julian Bliss.

From 1993 to the winter semester 2019/2020 she shared with her husband a professorship at Musikhochschule Lübeck, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. [2] Her husband's successor is his former student Jens Thoben. She was professor until October 2022. Sabine Meyer will continue her concert and chamber music activities. However, after more than forty years as a soloist and chamber musician, she plans to say goodbye to her audience in the course of 2025. [10]

Her clarinet students have also included Shirley Brill, Annelien Van Wauwe, Sebastian Manz, Taira Kaneko and Han Kim.

Meyer and her husband have two adult children and live in Lübeck.

Instruments

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Basset horn, basset clarinet and standard clarinet

Sabine Meyer plays the clarinet and basset clarinet in B and A, as well as a basset horn in F, all made of grenadilla by Herbert Wurlitzer, and clarinets in B and in A made of boxwood, manufactured by Schwenk & Seggelke (now: Seggelke Klarinetten), which she mainly uses in chamber music. In 1984, Meyer commissioned Wurlitzer to build a basset clarinet (in A) for her, not a historical replica but a modern, hitherto only occasionally, built instrument. Since then, she has been playing the clarinet concerto by Mozart (and his clarinet quintet) in a reconstructed version.

Awards

Selected recordings

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