Hansjörg Schellenberger

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Hansjörg Schellenberger (born February 13, 1948 in Munich ) is a German oboist and conductor .

Life

Schellenberger grew up in Saal an der Donau near Regensburg and graduated from high school in 1967 at what was then Danube High School in Kelheim . He was already playing the recorder at the age of 6, and at 13 he took oboe lessons. In 1965 he was awarded the 1st Federal Prize in the “ Jugend musiziert ” competition; a subsequent scholarship enabled him to participate in the National Music Camp of Interlochen ( Michigan , USA). From 1967 he studied oboe and conducting at the Munich University of Music and mathematics and computer science at the Technical University of Munich . In 1968 he was one of the co-founders of the music of our time series , where he met many young composers and worked intensively on contemporary music using new ways of playing the oboe.

After his exams in 1970, Schellenberger became deputy solo oboist with the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra from September 1971 ; from 1975 he was solo oboist. At the same time he studied with Helmut Winschermann at the Detmold Music Academy , where he passed his concert exam in 1973. From September 1977 he made regular guest appearances with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Herbert von Karajan , where he was solo oboist from September 1980 to 2001. From 1983 to 1997 he also managed the Berlin Philharmonic in the field of phono and television productions.

Schellenberger has appeared as a soloist with many orchestras and conductors, including Herbert von Karajan , Claudio Abbado , Carlo Maria Giulini , Riccardo Muti , James Levine and others. a. In addition, he has also been active as a chamber musician since the beginning of his career , for example with the winds of the Berlin Philharmonic , as founder of the "trio d'anches köln" (1973), as co-founder of the Vienna-Berlin ensemble (1983) and as founder and director of the Haydn Ensembles Berlin (1991). He has long-term duo partnerships with the pianist Rolf Koenen, the flutist Wolfgang Schulz , the harpist Margit-Anna Süß (his wife) and other musicians.

Since leaving the Berliner Philharmoniker in 2001, Schellenberger has concentrated increasingly on conducting. He conducted a. a. at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan , the Santa Cecilia Orchestra in Rome, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo. In October 2013 he was appointed chief conductor of the Okayama Philharmonic Orchestra.

Schellenberger lives in Bavaria today.

Teaching

From 1981 to 1991 Schellenberger taught at the University of the Arts in Berlin. From 1985 to 1998 he gave regular master classes at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena , from 1986 also at the Scuola di Musica Fiesole . Since 2001 Schellenberger has been Professor at the Royal Music School in Madrid ( La Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia ) and Head of Woodwind Studies at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Since 2005, masterclasses have been held every September in his home town Sachrang in Chiemgau.

Recordings

Schellenberger has made several dozen records on Denon , DGG , Orfeo, Sony Classical , EMI and other labels. In 1997 he founded his own label Campanella Musica . One of the first CDs with Bach sonatas already won the German Record Prize .

Awards

literature

  • Berliner Philharmoniker: Variations with Orchestra - 125 Years of the Berliner Philharmoniker , Volume 2, Biographies and Concerts, Verlag Henschel, May 2007, ISBN 978-3-89487-568-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Announcement of the awards from August 1, 2018. bundespraesident.de, August 1, 2018, accessed on August 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Schellenberger, Hansjörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German oboist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich