Hille Perl
Hille Perl (actually: Hildegard Perl ; * 1965 in Bremen ) is a German gambist who is known throughout Europe as an interpreter of music from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Life
Hille Perl grew up in a musical family. Her father, the musicologist, harpsichordist and organist Helmut Perl, studied Mozart intensively and already gave his daughter a small viola da gamba. Hille Perl first took lessons from Niklas Trüstedt in Berlin and later studied in Hamburg with Pere Ros and Ingrid Stampa . She graduated from the Academy for Early Music in Bremen with Jaap ter Linden and Sarah Cunningham in 1990. During her training, Hille Perl received important suggestions from Wieland Kuijken and Jordi Savall . Since 2002 she has been teaching students at the Bremen University of the Arts in instruments of the viol family.
Her daughter Marthe Perl (* 1983) and her niece Sarah Perl (* 1977) are also gambists.
Artistic work
In addition to her concert activities, since 1997 she has released numerous recordings for the labels Deutsche Harmonia Mundi and Sony BMG as well as the German independent label Carpe Diem Records .
Hille Perl concerts with ensembles such as the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble . She appears as a soloist or in a duo with her long-time partner Lee Santana , with whom she has been working since 1984. In 2001, together with him and Steve Player, she founded the Los Otros ensemble , which has since undertaken numerous national and international guest tours and recorded several albums.
Hille Perl also works with many other artists and appears in several other formations. The Sirius Viols is a viol ensemble, occasionally supplemented with other instruments or vocals, which among other things has set out to "try out different musical ideas or approaches" and in which former or current students of Hille Perl can often be found. Under Why Not Here she got together with her viol player colleague Friederike Heumann and under the name The Age Of Passions with the musicians Petra Müllejans (baroque violin ), Lee Santana (lute, theorbo and Colascione) and Karl Kaiser (transverse flute). Since 2005 she has been playing in the baroque trio with Lee Santana and the recorder player Maurice Steger . In this combination, as well as with her other projects, she regularly receives extremely positive feedback from the public and the press.
Hille Perl has brought concertante viol music in Germany and beyond again into focus. Today she is one of the most internationally successful German viol players. In particular, her “virtuoso playing full of passion, seriousness and lightness at the same time” as well as her talent for improvisation are recognized.
Christian Kurt Weisz shot a 43-minute documentary about the musician's work with the title Hille Perl and the Queen of String Instruments , which the TV channel Arte first broadcast on July 24, 2011. In the 2017 film Happy End by Michael Haneke , she played a supporting role as a viol player.
Discography
year | title | other artists | Label |
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1997 | Sainte-Colombe - Retrouvé & Changé | German Harmonia Mundi | |
1999 | Sonatas for Viola da Gamba & Harpsichord | Michael Behringer | Haenssler Classic |
1999 | ... per la viola da gamba ... | German Harmonia Mundi | |
2000 | Doulce memoire | German Harmonia Mundi | |
2002 | The Star and the Sea | Lee Santana | Carpe Diem Records |
2003 | Tinto | Lee Santana, Steve Player | German Harmonia Mundi |
2003 | Why Not Here | Friederike Heumann | Carpe Diem Records |
2004 | Marin Marais - Pour la Violle et le Théorbe | Lee Santana | German Harmonia Mundi |
2004 | Aguirre | Lee Santana, Steve Player, Pedro Estevan | German Harmonia Mundi |
2006 | Telemann Concertos for Viola da Gamba | Freiburg Baroque Orchestra , Petra Müllejans | German Harmonia Mundi |
2007 | Marais - Les Voix Humaines | Lee Santana | German Harmonia Mundi |
2008 | La Hacha | Lee Santana, Steve Player, Tembembe Ensamble Continuo | German Harmonia Mundi |
2008 | Dowland - In darkness let me dwell | Lee Santana, Dorothee Mields | German Harmonia Mundi |
2008 | De Profundis | Tre Bassi (Alain Buet, Paul Willenbrock, Philippe Roche), Michel Godard , Lee Santana | Carpe Diem Records |
2009 | Kapsbergiana | Lee Santana, Steve Player | German Harmonia Mundi |
2009 | Sonatas for Viola Da Gamba & Harpsicord | Christine Schornsheim | German Harmonia Mundi |
2009 | Venezia 1625 | Maurice Steger & Ensemble | Harmonia Mundi |
2010 | Loves alchemy | Lee Santana, Dorothee Mields | German Harmonia Mundi |
2011 | Graciously grant us peace | Anna Maria Friman, Lee Santana, Sirius Viols | German Harmonia Mundi |
2011 | Biber - Rosary Sonatas | Daniel Sepec, Lee Santana, Michael Behringer | Coviello Classics |
2012 | The Music of Johann Schenk | Lee Santana, Marthe Perl | German Harmonia Mundi |
2012 | Sixxes | Lee Santana, Sirius Viols, American Gamba Music | German Harmonia Mundi |
2012 | Telemann / Pfeiffer / Graun - Concerti | Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | German Harmonia Mundi |
2014 | Born to Be Mild | with Lee Santana and Marthe Perl | German Harmonia Mundi |
2016 | The Four Seasons by Christopher Simpson | with Sirius Viols | German Harmonia Mundi |
2017 | Handel | with Dorothee Mields and the La Folia Barockorchester | German Harmonia Mundi |
Awards
- 2001: ECHO Klassik of the German Phono Academy as “Instrumentalist of the Year” for her album Doulce Memoire
- 2003: Echo Klassik Ensemble / Orchestra together with Lee Santana and Steve Player
- 2008: ECHO Klassik in the “Chamber Music Recording Ensemble des 17./18. Century "
- 2011: ECHO Klassik in the “Chamber Music Recording Ensemble des 17./18. Jh. ”, Together with Dorothee Mields and Lee Santana for their CD Loves Alchymie
- 2012: Prize of the German Record Critics : “Annual Prize 2011” for the production Biber - Rosenkranzsonaten, together with Daniel Sepec, Michael Behringer and Lee Santana
Movie
- Hille Perl and the queen of string instruments. Documentary, Germany, 2011, 43 min., Script and direction: Christian Kurt Weisz, production: Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images, ZDF , arte , first broadcast: July 24, 2011 on arte, synopsis by ARD .
- Happy ending from Michael Haneke , with Isabelle Huppert .
Web links
- Works by and about Hille Perl in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hille Perl at SoundCloud
- Hille Perl website
- Publication on Sony Music
- Contribution to the music magazine KlickKlack of BR on YouTube (5:23 minutes)
- A features magazine about two projects of a guest tour and the advantages of the viol from Hille Perl's point of view
- http://www.echoklassik.de/nc/klassik-kuenstlersuche/
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hille Perl | Viola da gamba. March 15, 2018, accessed on March 28, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Merzhausen municipality | Credentials. Retrieved March 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Famous viol player Hille Perl visits the grammar school church in Meppen - emSide. Retrieved March 28, 2019 .
- ^ Christiane Lehnigk: Viola da gamba and Telemann. The virtuoso game of Hille Perl. In: Deutschlandfunk , October 29, 2006.
- ↑ Video excerpt: Hille Perl and the queen of string instruments. Uploaded by Chris Kurt Weisz, original page ( Memento from January 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Echo Classic Awards 2003 | nmz - new music newspaper. Retrieved March 28, 2019 .
- ↑ "Echo Klassik" special prices for the promotion of young talent. October 4, 2011, accessed on March 28, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Annual award for Biber's Rosary Sonatas. In: German Record Critics ' Award , 2012.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Perl, Hille |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Perl, Hildegard |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German viol player |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |