Anna Torge

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Anna Torge is a German mandolinist and guitarist .

Career

Anna Torge began her musical training at the age of three. After finishing school, she first studied at the Musikhochschule Heidelberg / Mannheim with Keith Harris ( mandolin ) and with Walter Schumacher-Löffler ( guitar ). After that she moved to the Musikhochschule Köln / Wuppertal to study the modern and historical mandolin with Marga Wilden-Hüsgen and the guitar with Dieter Kreidler . While practicing her educational and artistic work, she gained further qualifications by studying elementary music pedagogy and the scientific master's degree in music pedagogy at the University of Dance and Music in Cologne .

Anna Torge has won several prizes at national and international competitions with mandolin and guitar. In addition, she received the culture award of the city of Schrobenhausen . She was also included in the Live Music Now sponsorship by Yehudi Menuhin .

Concert activity

Anna Torge has appeared as a soloist with the Concerto Köln , the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin , the Münchner Rundfunkorchester , the Münchner Hofkapelle , the Georgian Chamber Orchestra and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra . She worked with conductors such as Dennis Russell Davies , Enoch zu Guttenberg and Michael Willens. In various projects with classical and new music she made music with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks , the Vienna Philharmonic , the Sound Management and Music of the Centuries Stuttgart under the direction of Mariss Jansons , Riccardo Muti , Enoch zu Guttenberg, Mstislaw Rostropowitsch and Daniel Harding . So far she has been heard as a soloist a. a. in the Cologne Philharmonic , the Residenztheater in Munich , the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles . She also played at festivals such as the Salzburg Festival , the Rheingau Music Festival , the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival , the Middle Europe Festival , the Herrenchiemsee Festival and at Kempen Klassik.

She was inspired by chamber music encounters with Ronald Brautigam , Gerald Hambitzer , Mayumi Hirasaki, Axel Wolf and Rüdiger Lotter.

Educational activity

Anna Torge taught mandolin and guitar at the district music school in Fürstenfeldbruck and Sauerlach and passed on her knowledge at seminars and orchestral rehearsal phases of the BDZ ( Bund deutscher Zupfmusiker ). One of the main focuses of her teaching activity was learning the mandolin using the "mother tongue method ", which was developed by the Japanese violinist and music teacher Shinichi Suzuki . The child initially learns the instrument like its own mother tongue: through imitation, frequent repetition, and initially without notes. Anna Torge developed this method further and transferred it to the mandolin. A supportive learning field, constructive learning conditions and the promotion of personality were important to her.

Today she offers support to music students and musicians. Topics include a. artistic identity, positioning in working life, promoting resilience and resources as well as preparation for appearances.

Discography

  • Nachtklang chamber music (1997). Works by Gerd Domhardt. With Anna Torge, Waltraut Wächter, Reinhard Schmiedel and the Konfrontation ensemble.
  • Chamber trio de la gorra - balada para un loco (1997). Works by Piazzolla, Villa-Lobos, Cardoso, Jascalevich a. a. With Anna Torge, Diego Jascalevich and Peter Ernst.
  • It takes me a lot to see you cry (2006). Works by Grieg, Brahms, Telemann a. a. With the Aramis Quartet: Anna Torge, Antja Strömsdörfer, Silvan Wagner and Oliver Strömsdörfer.
  • Guitar Music Volume 2 (2010). Works by Hans Werner Henze. With Franz Halász, Anna Torge, Cristina Bianchi, the ensemble oktopus and Konstantia Gourzi
  • Forgotten Treasures (2010). Virtuoso trumpet music. With works by Schiedermayr, Fiala, Kozeluch, Kreutzer, Verdi and Weber. With Robert Vanryne, Ulrike Schneider, Kathryn Cok, Anna Torge, David Sinclair, the Cologne Academy and Michael Alexander Willens.
  • The Concerto Köln Christmas Album (2011). Works by Charpentier, Torelli, Bach, Vejvanovsky, Corelli, Stamitz and Vivaldi. With the Concerto Köln.
  • Friends of the Lute (2013). Works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Silvius Leopold Weiss and Ernst Gottlieb Baron. With Axel Wolf, Dorothee Oberlinger, Anna Torge and Christoph Anselm Noll .
  • Mandolin Concerts (2013). Works by Barbella, Giuliani and Hoffmann. With Anna Torge, the Cologne Academy and Michael Alexander Willens.
  • Concerti per molti stromenti (2017). Works by Georg Philipp Telemann. Academy for Early Music Berlin.
  • Mandolino e Violino in Italia (2018). Concerts, sonatas and trios by Vivaldi, Arrogni, Capponi and Hasse. With Anna Torge, Mayumi Hirasaki and Il Cantino.
  • Mandolino e Fortepiano (2018). Works by Beethoven, Hummel, Leone and Feliziano. With Anna Torge and Gerald Hambitzer.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ annatorge | historical & modern mandolins | Musician. Retrieved May 21, 2018 .
  2. ↑ annatorge | historical & modern mandolins | Musician. Retrieved May 21, 2018 .
  3. ^ Olching music school: The easy way to music. In: http://www.kms-ffb.de . Retrieved May 21, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Torge, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mandolinist and guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century