Martin Frutiger

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Martin Frutiger (* 1977 in Bern ) is a Swiss oboist and English horn player .

Life

Martin Frutiger studied oboe with Hans Elhorst at the Bern University of the Arts while still at school . He completed this course with a teaching and orchestra diploma with distinction. He then completed the master class with Günther Passin at the University of Music and Theater in Munich (master class diploma). From 2001 to 2003 he was a member of the Karajan Academy with the Berliner Philharmoniker . In 2004 he became principal cor anglais in the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich .

Concert tours and master classes have taken him through Europe, Asia and the USA. He is a member of the multiple award-winning Icarus Quartet. As a soloist he performed a. a. with the following orchestras: Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra , Bern Symphony Orchestra , Lucerne Symphony Orchestra , Basel Chamber Orchestra , Munich Chamber Orchestra , Cappella Istropolitana and New Bachisches Collegium Musicum . In 2007 he performed Stanisław Skrowaczewski's English Horn Concerto with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich.

Frutiger is a lecturer for oboe and chamber music at the Lucerne School of Music and for English horn and oboe d'amore at the Zurich University of the Arts . He chairs the jury at the instrumental competition "The Muri Competition".

Awards

He has repeatedly won prizes at the Swiss Youth Music Competition. In 2000 he received first prize for modern oboe at the international oboe competition of the Handel Festival , the Handel Prize of the City of Halle . In 2001 he won the Concours National d'Execution Musicale in Riddes. At the ARD International Music Competition in Munich in 2002 he was awarded the Bärenreiter Urtext Prize. In 2003 he received second prize at the Sony International Oboe Competition in Tokyo / Japan. He was also a finalist in the New Talent competition of the European Broadcasting Union . He also received the study award of the Federation of Migros Cooperatives, the cultural promotion award of the FDP Canton of Bern , was a scholarship holder from Live Music Now Munich and from the Villa Musica in Mainz.

Discography (selection)

  • Icarus Quartet - Aubade (Swiss Pan, 2004)
  • Icarus Quartet / Joseph Lauber (Swiss Pan 2007)
  • Music for cor anglais / Antonio Pasculli , Carlo Yvon , Giovanni Daelli (Guild Music, 2014)
  • Elegy - Music for cor anglais Vol. 2 (Guild Music, 2018)

literature

  • Sandra Sinsch: Martin Frutiger. »In Berlin I found my own sound« . In: eurowinds 1/2014, p. 14 ff.

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personal data
SURNAME Frutiger, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss oboist and English horn player
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern , Switzerland