Frøydis Ree Wekre
Frøydis Ree Wekre (born July 31, 1941 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian horn player and emeritus professor at a music college.
Life
The daughter of a pianist and an amateur violinist learned to play the piano and the violin very early on . It was not until the age of 17 that she took up the horn and studied this instrument in Sweden, Russia and the USA. The teachers included Wilhelm Lanzky-Otto and Vitali Bujanowskij .
She received her first engagement in 1960 in the Norwegian Opera. Then in 1961 she received an engagement with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. From 1965 to 1991 she was principal horn player in this orchestra, as well as at the Norwegian Opera .
Since 1991 she has been professor for horn and wind chamber music at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. She also gives master classes in Europe and North America. She is the author of the book Thoughts on Playing the Horn Well , which has been translated into several languages. Several composers have written around 40 works for Wekre, including Sigurd Berge 's Hornlokk and Trygve Madsen a horn sonata. The Horn Concerto op. 49 by Wolfgang Plagge from 1990 is also dedicated to her.
Ms. Wekre served for two years as Chair of the International Horn Society , of which she was made an honorary member.
Fonts
- (1994): Thoughts on Playing the Horn Well. Self-published. ISBN 82-993244-0-8
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| SURNAME | Wekre, Frøydis Ree |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian horn player and university lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oslo |