Dorothea Winter

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Dorothea Angelika Winter (born November 27, 1949 in Ahrensburg ; † November 11, 2012 ) was a German musician who played and taught the recorder . As a recorder teacher, she taught at the Conservatory in Zwolle and at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague . She was the founder and member of the Trio Dolce, for which John Cage wrote the piece Three .

Life

Dorothea Winter was born on November 27, 1949 in Ahrensburg . After graduating from the Stormarn School there in 1968, she studied recorder with Ferdinand Conrad in Hanover. During her studies she performed in many concerts under the pseudonym Theodora Sommer.

She moved to Holland, where she studied recorder with Jeanette van Wingerden and Frans Brüggen at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. She completed her training with great success and won several prizes in the international competition for woodwind instruments at the Musica Antiqua Festival in Bruges . In 1986 she founded the Trio Dolce , a recorder trio that specialized in contemporary flute music, together with the flutists Christine Brelowski and Geesche Geddert . The composers who composed pieces for the Trio Dolce included Lothar Lämmer ( whistle on it!, 1985), Ivo van Emmerik ( Voci eguali , 1986; Renvoi à l'environ , 1993), John Cage ( Three , 1989), Ron Ford ( Steps , 1990), Floris van Manen ( Langzaam & zacht , 1993) and Walter Zimmermann ( Shadows of Cold Mountain I , 1993). The piece Three by John Cage was written for three recorder players and first performed on July 27, 1990 at the International Summer Course for New Music in Darmstadt . Dorothea Winter was also a member of the Klemisch Consort Berlin.

Discography

  • Trio Dolce. John Cage: The Number Pieces 4. Three. Solo with Obbligato Accompaniment . Mode Records (mode 186), 2007.
  • Klemisch Consort Berlin. En vos adieux. Renaissance music from Rome and Florence. Music on historical recorders .

literature

  • Guido Klemisch: Dorothea Angelika Winter. November 27, 1949 - November 11, 2012. In: Tibia 1/2013, vol. 38, vol. 19, pp. 366-367. ISSN  0176-6511
  • In memoriam: Dorothea Winter In: Blokfluitist , Volume 5, No. 1 (January 2013)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Dorothea Winter of the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag. Archived on Web.archiv.org. Accessed January 8, 2018. (English)
  2. ↑ Trio Dolce profile on moderecords.com. Accessed January 8, 2018. (English)
  3. ↑ Dorothea Winter profile on moderecords.com. Accessed January 8, 2018. (English)
  4. ^ Lothar Lämmer entry in the composers' lexicon. Retrieved January 8, 2018.
  5. ↑ David W. Bernstein, Christopher Hatch: Writings through John Cage's Music, Poetry, and Art . University of Chicago Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-226-04408-8 , pp. 158 ( preview in Google Book search).
  6. ↑ John Cage - Volume 38: The Number Pieces 4 Description on moderecords.com. Accessed January 8, 2018. (English)
  7. ↑ John Cage - Three description on moderecords.com. Accessed January 8, 2018. (English)
  8. ↑ En vos adieux - Music of the Renaissance from Rome and Florence Description on Recorder Home Page Databases. Retrieved January 8, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Winter, Dorothea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winter, Dorothea Angelika; Sommer, Theodora (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German recorder player
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Ahrensburg
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 2012