Eberhard Sengpiel

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Eberhard Sengpiel (* 1940 in Berlin ; † August 29, 2014 ) was a German sound engineer and lecturer at the University of the Arts Berlin at the Institute for Church Music and at the Institute for Musicology , Music Theory , Composition and Music Transmission. He was known to many sound managers under his nickname ebs in internet forums.

Life

Sengpiel studied electrical engineering in Berlin and graduated with a degree in engineering. He was a musician and musical director in several bands (jazz and popular music) and studied composition. Sengpiel worked as a development engineer in the field of audio technology and contributed to the further development of microphone placement concepts as well as the creation of the now withdrawn hi-fi standards series DIN 45500 . As a sound engineer he made recordings in the field of light music with Reinhard Mey , Peter Maffay , the fishing choirs, the original Oberkrainern Avsenik, among others . As a sound engineer in the field of classical music, he has worked with orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic Orchestra , the Berlin Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra , the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra , the Philharmonia Orchestra , Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden ( Semperoper ), the Czech Philharmonic , the Concertgebouw Orchestra , the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic , the Festival Orchestra Budapest and made chamber music recordings with many well-known soloists such as Il Giardino Armonico , Andreas Staier and Concerto Köln .

As a lecturer at the University of the Arts in Berlin at the Faculty of Music / Tonmeisterinstitut, he gave lectures on microphone recording and analogue and digital recording studio technology in surround sound and stereophony (music transmission) for students of the degree course graduate sound engineer.

Sengpiel was married and had one son.

Awards and honors

Sengpiel has won two Grammy Awards . He was awarded a Grammy for the recording of Tannhäuser by Richard Wagner under the conductor Daniel Barenboim , with Jane Eaglen, Thomas Hampson, Waltraud Meier, René Pape and Peter Seiffert, the choir of the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin and the Staatskapelle Berlin (Opera Unter den Linden) 2002 for The Best Opera Recording Award. A year earlier he received his recording of the wind concerts - Horn Concerto No. 1 (Dale Clevenger) Strauss: Oboe Concerto (Alex Klein) - Clarinet (Larry Combs) - Bassoon (Daniel McGill), Conductor / Piano: Daniel Barenboim, Chicago Symphony Orchestra , each from Richard Strauss , the 2001 Grammy for Classical - Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra .

The Association of German Tonmeister (VDT) awarded Sengpiel the Medal of Honor of the VDT at the Tonmeistertagung 2010 in Leipzig. According to the program, Sengpiel has "received high international recognition, especially in the training of young audio / visual talent". “Among other things,” “two Grammy awards also testified to his sound engineering skills”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eberhard Sengpiel Official website of the University of the Arts
  2. ^ Institute / Lecturers Vita Eberhard Sengpiel University of the Arts
  3. ^ Grammy 2003 Eberhard Sengpiel
  4. ^ Grammy 2002 Eberhard Sengpiel
  5. ^ Grammy Awards
  6. ↑ VDT Medal of Honor - 26th TMT, Leipzig
  7. ↑ a b VDT awards & medal of honor program of the 26th Tonmeistertagung, p. 8
  8. ↑ An interview with Eberhard Sengpiel - Studio Magazin (PDF; 754 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Sengpiel, Eberhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES ebs (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sound engineer and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 29th August 2014