Jan Vogler

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Jan Vogler (born February 18, 1964 in East Berlin ) is a German cellist .

Life

Vogler attended the special school for music in Berlin . He was a student of Peter Vogler and Josef Schwab in Berlin and of Heinrich Schiff in Basel . He began his career as “first concert master violoncello” in the Staatskapelle Dresden in 1984 at the age of 20. He gave up this position in 1997 in order to concentrate entirely on his work as a soloist, the highlights of which included appearances with the New York Philharmonic under Lorin Maazel in New York as well as during the reopening of the Dresden Frauenkirche in 2005. Jan Vogler plays a cello by Antonio Stradivari "Castelbarco / Fau" from 1707. His orchestral repertoire includes all well-known works for the cello as well as unusual pieces such as the cello concerto "Dunkle Saiten" by composer Jörg Widmann , which is dedicated to Jan Vogler by Samuel Barber or the highly virtuoso concert by Michael Haydn . Together with the New York Philharmonic, he gave the world premiere of the Berceuse for Dresden by the English composer Colin Matthews in autumn 2005 in the Dresden Frauenkirche.

Jan Vogler's chamber music activities include the Moritzburg Festival , of which he is the artistic director, and regular concerts with partners such as Hélène Grimaud , Martin Stadtfeld and, last but not least, Louis Lortie . With the latter in particular, he shares a love for extraordinary programs such as a “song program” with works by Wagner and Liszt.

In 2003 Jan Vogler began recording at Sony Classical with a recording of Strauss' “Don Quixote” and “Romance” with the Saxon Staatskapelle Dresden under Fabio Luisi . The results of this collaboration are the recording of Antonín Dvořák's cello concerto with the New York Philharmonic under David Robertson (including Diapason d'Or and Choc - Le Monde de la Musique ) as well as two Mozart recordings with artists from the Moritzburg Festival (Echo Klassik). The latter contain, among other things, two rarities rediscovered by Jan Vogler himself: suites from Le nozze di Figaro and the Magic Flute arranged by Mozart contemporaries for string quartet , the second won the 2006 Echo Klassik . Mention should also be made of the recordings of the cello concertos by Samuel Barber and Erich Wolfgang Korngold , published by Berlin Classics, as well as the recording of the cello concertos by Robert Schumann and Jörg Widmann (ECHO Klassik “Bester Instrumentalist” 2002). For his CD "My Tunes" Vogler has several encores (ger .: encores ) installed; it was published in February 2007. In 2010 he published "My Tunes Vol. 2".

In 2009 Vogler took over the management of the Dresden Music Festival , which was founded in 1978, and was able to expand and reposition it. Since then, the contract has been extended twice by five years, most recently in February 2020 to 2026.

Honor

Discography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Klempnow: Jan Vogler remains head of the Dresden Music Festival . In: Saxon newspaper . February 2, 2020 ( paid online [accessed February 3, 2020]).
  2. ↑ ECHO prices for Jan Volger can be found on www.echoklassik.de under the heading “Search” at the bottom of the navigation bar.
  3. ^ Biography Jan Vogler, violoncello. www.echoklassik.de, archived from the original on January 21, 2015 ; Retrieved August 29, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Vogler, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cellist
DATE OF BIRTH 18th February 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin