Dagmar Spengler

Dagmar Spengler (born April 4, 1974 in Herten ) is a German cellist . She is currently the principal cellist of the Staatskapelle Weimar .

Life

Dagmar Spengler received her first violoncello lessons at the Marl Music School with Zoltan Thirring and Klaus Baumeister and then studied with Claus Kanngiesser at the Cologne University of Music . After her artistic maturity examination in 1998, which she passed with "distinction", she accepted Bernard Greenhouse's invitation to study in the USA for a year . As a scholarship holder of the German Music Competition Bonn with the Rebecca Clarke Trio (piano trio), she played numerous concerts as part of the Young Artists' concerts of the German Music Council . In 2001 she completed her studies at the Cologne University of Music with the concert exam. Dagmar Spengler was solo cellist in several youth orchestras (including in the Youth Symphony Orchestra NRW), played as solo cellist in the Folkwang Chamber Orchestra in Essen and, immediately after completing her studies, was the cellist of the Saxon State Orchestra Dresden (Semperoper) between 2001 and 2003 .

In addition to regularly attending international master classes and a. with David Geringas , Bernard Greenhouse , Lluís Claret and the Alban Berg Quartet , she devotes herself intensively to chamber music in a wide variety of ensembles. B. with the sextet Vivace! and in a duo with the pianist Oliver Drechsel .

Her debut CD was released by Verlag Dohr in 2001 under the title dialogo with works of the 20th century for violoncello and piano , which, in addition to the well-known sonatas by Sergei Prokofiev and Benjamin Britten, also includes two world premiere recordings by the British composer Buxton Orr , including his Carmen Fantasy contains.

Discography

• dialogo. Works of the 20th century for cello and piano by Sergej Prokofjeff , Buxton Orr and Benjamin Britten (together with Oliver Drechsel , piano), Verlag Dohr DCD017, 2001.

Web links

• Works by and about Dagmar Spengler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Drechsel / tinsmith duo