Kai Rapsch

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Kai Rapsch (* 1978 in Berlin ) is a German oboist , English horn player and entrepreneur .

Life

Rapsch attended the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Music High School in Berlin. At the age of 15 he entered the Julius Stern Institute of the Berlin University of the Arts as a young student . From 1997 he studied in Burkhard Glaetzner's oboe class . From 2000 to 2004 he studied with Günther Passin at the University of Music and Theater in Munich .

During his studies he was a member of the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg . Since 2004 he has been principal cor anglais and oboist with the Munich Philharmonic . He is also a lecturer at the orchestra academy there.

Recitals and chamber concerts as well as master classes have taken him to music festivals in Dresden, Salzburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania as well as to Japan and South Korea. As a soloist, he has performed with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Chamber Ensemble Salzburg Orchestra Soloists, Bach Collegium Munich and New Bachische Collegium Musicum Leipzig.

In 2012 he founded the company Reeds for Oboes , with which he sells hand-made reeds for English horn, oboe d'amore and oboe worldwide.

Awards

In 1994/95 he received a music grant from the Jürgen Ponto Foundation to promote young artists . He was repeatedly awarded at the national competition Jugend musiziert . In 1999 he was a prize winner at the international competition of the Munich Concert Society . In 2000 he was awarded the 2nd prize in the Handel Festival's oboe competition , the Handel Prize of the City of Halle .

Discography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Music grant recipients of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation for the Promotion of Young Artists (PDF) juergen-ponto-stiftung.de; accessed on November 6, 2019.
  2. ↑ Our previous competitions and award winners. konzertgesellschaft.eu; accessed on November 6, 2019.
  3. ↑ Christoph Rink: Handel Sponsorship Award - Handel Research Award . In: Messages from the Friends and Sponsors of the Handel House in Halle e. V. 1/2014, pp. 11–13, here: p. 13.
personal data
SURNAME Rapsch, Kai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German oboist and English horn player
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin