Frank Forst

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Frank Forst (* 1969 in Aalen ) is professor of bassoon at the Liszt School of Music in Weimar .

Forst received his first bassoon lessons at the age of eleven and was a student of Gerhard Hase in Stuttgart until 1989. In 1987 he won first prize at the national youth music competition .

1989–1992 he studied at the Hanover Music Academy with Klaus Thunemann . In 1991 Forst was honored at the international music competition Prague Spring and received a scholarship from the German Music Competition with subsequent inclusion in the national selection of concerts by young artists . From 1990 to 1992 he was a member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie .

From 1992 to 2003 he was principal bassoonist with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra and from 1996 to 2003 assistant to Klaus Thunemann in Berlin. Since 1997 he has also been principal bassoonist of the Camerata Salzburg . At the beginning of the winter semester 2003/04 he was appointed professor at the Liszt School of Music Weimar .

Forst has appeared as a soloist with orchestras such as the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the Camerata Salzburg, the Bremen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rhineland-Palatinate State Philharmonic , the Northwest German Philharmonic , the Camerata Europaea and the New Berlin Chamber Orchestra.

He teaches master classes in countries such as Germany, Japan, the USA, Russia, China, Taiwan, Spain, Greece, Hungary and Luxembourg.

Composers such as Leo Eylar, Peter Hope and Martin Peter have dedicated several compositions to him and his wife Yukiko Sano.

For several years he has also been intensively involved in historical playing practice and plays the dulcian, baroque bassoon, classical and romantic bassoon.

He is a member of the Linos Ensemble, the Thuringian Bach Collegium and the Ensemble of Tokyo.

CD

  • Frank Forst and Yukiko Sano - bassoon and piano. Hurlstone, Lachner, Schreck, Spohr, Eylar , Animato, 2010 ACD 6116

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ensemble , Linos Ensemble website, accessed January 5, 2020
  2. ↑ Thuringian Bach Collegium , accessed January 5, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Forst, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, university professor in Weimar
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Bask