Jan Diesselhorst

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Jan Diesselhorst (born March 18, 1954 in Marburg ; † February 5, 2009 in Berlin ) was a German cellist .

Life

Diesselhorst, a grandson of the Protestant theologian Rudolf Bultmann and son of Gesine Bultmann and her husband, the Göttingen legal philosopher Malte Diesselhorst, grew up in a music-loving family in Göttingen . He studied cello playing first with Alexander Molzahn in Frankfurt am Main and then with Wolfgang Boettcher in Berlin . After receiving several awards, in 1977 he passed the audition with the Berlin Philharmonic , with which he had previously worked as an assistant. In 1985 he founded the Philharmonia Quartet Berlin with his three orchestra colleagues Daniel Stabrawa (first violin), Christian Stadelmann (second violin) and Neithard Resa (viola) . The ensemble was awarded "for his Britten- and Reger -Einspielungen the Prize of the German Record Critics ." Since his admission to the Berliner Philharmoniker, he has also been a member of the Ensemble Die 12 Cellisten des Orchester and has been teaching at the Orchestra Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker since 1990 . With the Berliner Philharmoniker, of which Diesselhorst was one of the “prominent figures in the front row”, he has also been a member of the Council of Five since 2003 and of the orchestra board since 2005, as well as a deputy board member.

Diesselhorst was married to the pianist Gesine Tiefuhr-Diesselhorst. He died of cardiac arrest at the age of 54 after a six-hour heart valve operation. On the occasion of the first anniversary of his death, the Philharmonia Quartet Berlin, the 12 cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic and the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic organized a memorial concert in his honor on Sunday, February 7, 2010 in the chamber music hall of the Berlin Philharmonic .

literature

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. † Jan Diesselhorst , philharmonia-quartett-berlin.de, accessed on June 27, 2016
  2. a b Patrick Bahners : Philharmonic nature. Cellist Jan Diesselhorst has died. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 9, 2009, accessed on June 27, 2016.
  3. Jan Diesselhorst , die12cellisten.de, accessed on June 27, 2016
  4. ^ Sybill Mahlke, Memory of Jan Diesselhorst , in: Der Tagesspiegel , February 9, 2010