David Petersen (bassoonist)

David Petersen (born September 13, 1968 in Schwerin ) is a German bassoonist .

Life

Petersen was born in 1968 in Schwerin as the son of the cathedral choirmaster Winfried Petersen . From 1983 to 1986 he attended the special school for music in Dresden . He then studied bassoon with Bernhard Rose at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden , with Holger Straube at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin and with Klaus Thunemann at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media .

He was a substitute at the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and has been solo bassoonist at the Gewandhausorchester in Leipzig since 1992 . In 1993 he founded the Gewandhaus octet. Since 1999 he has also played in the armonia wind ensemble, with which he appeared at the Rheingau Music Festival and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival .

He has given concerts as a soloist in the USA, France, Spain and Austria. In 2002 he played with the Camerata Salzburg under Roger Norrington at the Salzburg Festival and in 2005 on a tour of Japan with the Leipzig Chamber Orchestra under Morten Schuldt-Jensen .

He is a lecturer at the Rostock University of Music and Theater .

literature

• Hans-Rainer Jung, Claudius Böhm: The Gewandhaus Orchestra. Its members and its history since 1743. Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 978-3-936618-86-0 , p. 307.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ David Petersen, Fagott ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the Federal Administrative Court. Retrieved April 7, 2012. 
2. ↑ David Petersen, Fagott  ( 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. . Website of the Gewandhaus Octet. Retrieved April 7, 2012.