Albrecht Mayer

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Albrecht Mayer, photography by Mat Hennek

Albrecht Mayer (born June 3, 1965 in Erlangen ) is a German oboist .

Life

After studying with Gerhard Scheuer , Maurice Bourgue , Georg Meerwein and Ingo Goritzki as well as his membership in the Bavarian State Youth Orchestra , Albrecht Mayer became principal oboist of the Bamberg Symphony in 1990 . Since 1992 he has held the same position with the Berliner Philharmoniker .

As a soloist he has released several CDs. Recordings were made with the Berlin Baroque Soloists, the Sabine Meyer wind ensemble and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra . In search of his ideal sound, he founded the ensemble New Seasons . In addition to solo projects, he also devotes himself to chamber music . a. Nigel Kennedy and Hélène Grimaud . Accompanied by the Berlin Baroque Soloists , Albrecht Mayer made his debut in New York's Carnegie Hall in November 2007 . In 2008 he was Artiste Etoile at the Lucerne Festival . Albrecht Mayer also played works with his oboe that were written for other instruments. Examples are his CD Songs without Words with Bach transcriptions and his album New Seasons with Handel transcriptions, which even made it into the German pop music - Charts managed. His CD On Mozart's Footsteps with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Claudio Abbado stayed in the German Classical Charts for months and was also included in the best list of the German Record Critics.

Mayer used to play on a Green Line oboe made by the French manufacturer Buffet Crampon , and since 2009 on an oboe or oboe d'amore that he developed with the instrument maker Ludwig Frank and manufactured by the Mönnig brothers .

Awards

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE
2006 New Seasons - Handel for oboe and orchestra DE85 (1 week)
DE
First published: August 18, 2006
Deutsche Grammophon
2008 In Venice DE43 (6 weeks)
DE
First published: August 15, 2008
Decca
2009 Bach (works for oboe, choir & orchestra) DE87 (2 weeks)
DE
First published: September 18, 2009
Decca
2010 Bonjour Paris DE69 (1 week)
DE
First published: August 20, 2010
Decca; with Academy of St Martin in the Fields under the direction of Mathias Mönius
2015 Lost and Found DE70 (4 weeks)
DE
First published: February 13, 2015
Deutsche Grammophon; with the Potsdam Chamber Academy
Bach: Concerts and Transcriptions DE92 (1 week)
DE
First published: October 16, 2015
Deutsche Grammophon
2016 A winter fairy tale - Christmas carols from Germany DE25 (5 weeks)
DE
First published: November 25, 2016
with Max Raabe , Gregor Meyle , Katharina Thalbach , Cassandra Steen & Thomas Quasthoff

More albums

  • 1999: Debut - Albrecht Mayer (works for oboe, oboe d'amore and cor anglais) (EMI)
  • 2002: Clair de lune (Tudor)
  • 2003: Songs without words (Bach for oboe & orchestra) (Deutsche Grammophon)
  • 2004: In Mozart's footsteps (Deutsche Grammophon)
  • 2007: The Oboe (Deutsche Grammophon)
  • 2012: Reed (Decca)
  • 2017: Tesori d'Italia (Deutsche Grammophon)
  • 2019: Longing for Paradise (with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra , Deutsche Grammophon)

Guest Posts

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE
2013 Swan Lake
Opus 		DE57 (2 weeks)
DE
with Schiller

literature

  • Berliner Philharmoniker: Variations with Orchestra - 125 Years of the Berliner Philharmoniker . Volume 2: Biographies and Concerts . Verlag Henschel, May 2007, ISBN 978-3-89487-568-8

Web links

Commons : Albrecht Mayer  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

swell

  1. ^ Albrecht Mayer: Biography ( Memento from August 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE
  3. ↑ Bonjour Paris (2010, CD) | Discogs. In: discogs.com. Archived from the original on March 18, 2020 ; accessed on March 25, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Albrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German oboist
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH gain