Adrian Rovatkay

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Adrian Rovatkay (* 1964 in Hanover ) is a German bassoonist and painter .

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Adrian Rovatkay is the son of the recorder player Siri Rovatkay's son and the harpsichordist and conductor Lajos Rovatkay . He received his bassoon training from Thomas Held in Hanover. From 1988 to 1996 he studied fine arts at the Braunschweig University of Art . In 2007 he curated an exhibition at the Städtische Galerie Kubus in Hanover, which was dedicated to his grandfather, the artist Kurt Sohns .

As a bassoonist, he specialized in historical instruments such as the dulcian , baroque bassoon and classical bassoon. He plays and played with early music ensembles such as Musica Antiqua Köln , Cantus Cölln , the Berliner Barock-Compagney , the Göttingen Barockorchester , Musica Fiata and The Harp Consort . Together with the baroque violinist Veronika Skuplik , the theorbist Andreas Arend and the harpsichordist and musicologist Michael Fuerst , he forms the Chelycus ensemble , with whom he gives concerts at international early music festivals such as the “Rencontres Musicales de Vézelay” or the “Trigonale”. With this ensemble he has performed works by Daniel Bollius , among others . With several of these ensembles he was a soloist on CD recordings. He found several works by Bollius in the Berlin State Library and contributed to their publication.

In his concert appearances, Adrian Rovatkay often interprets pieces of music that are rarely heard, such as the Simphonie à 8 concertanti , a group concert by Jan Dismas Zelenka . As a soloist, he regularly participates in new forms of musical performance and opera arrangements. He is the soloist in an arrangement of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte in a version for two musicians and a narrator. He also appeared as a soloist with the KOBALT Puppet Theater Lübeck in an adaptation of the opera The Barber of Seville by Gioacchino Rossini . Adrian Rovatkay is also active as a composer for experimental stage productions that combine various elements such as dance, sound and music. He usually realizes these cross-border projects together with the bassoon duo satyros, which he and Christian Walter founded in 1999 .

Adrian Rovatkay lives as a painter and musician in Berlin.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gallery KUBUS: Kurt Sohns . hannover-kunst.de
  2. ↑ a b Nachklang: Ensemble Chelycus with rediscovery. Deutschlandradio Kultur.
  3. ↑ Sheet music of selected works by Bollius with references to Rovatkays sheet music finds
  4. ↑ With timpani and trumpets .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Saarländischer Rundfunk, November 19, 2008@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.sr-online.de  
  5. ↑ Played out of the suitcase. In: Der Tagesspiegel , March 6, 2008
  6. ^ "The Barber of Seville": An opera buffa after Rossini and Beaumarchais. In: Berliner Zeitung , February 27, 2004
  7. ↑ The White Raven, four rooms, four journeys. lautrepas.de
personal data
SURNAME Rovatkay, Adrian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bassoonist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover