Maurice Steger

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Maurice Steger (* 1971 in Winterthur , Switzerland ) is an internationally active recorder player and conductor , he mainly works in the field of historical performance practice .

Musical activities

In addition to his concert activities (for example with Musica Antiqua Cologne , La Cetra Barockorchester Basel , the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin , Europa Galante, The English Concert , I Barocchisti, Berliner Barock Solisten, English Chamber Orchestra , Les Violons du Roy), Steger also devotes himself to innovation Program conceptions with old and new music (such as the music fairy tale for children about the flute playing Prince Tino Flautino, with baroque and modern music) and CD productions ( Harmonia Mundi , Deutsche Grammophon and Claves ). He recorded CDs with Antonio Vivaldi's recorder concertos, the trios and quartets as well as the concerts and the overture in A minor by Georg Philipp Telemann . Maurice Steger works closely with Diego Fasolis , Howard Griffiths , Reinhard Goebel and Bernard Labadie . Steger is the recipient of important record prizes and awards. He looks after the excavation, republication and occupation with the works of Giuseppe Sammartini . As a conductor, Maurice Steger works with symphonic orchestras around the world, his most important partners include the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra , the Zurich Chamber Orchestra , the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana , the Brandenburg State Orchestra , Les Violons du Roy, the Basel Symphony Orchestra and the NDR Radiophilharmonie or the Taipei Symphony Orchestra. He regularly lectures at international master courses in Europe, Asia, Africa and America and has been director of the Gstaad Baroque Academy since 2013, which is organized annually by the Gstaad Menuhin Festival . Maurice Steger is the artistic director of the Stockstadt Recorder Festival .

Awards

  • 2015: ECHO Klassik in the category Instrumentalist of the Year (flute)

Discography

  • Mr Handel's Dinner : Concertos, Sonatas & Chaconnes by Georg Friedrich Händel , Gottfried Finger , Francesco Geminiani & William Babell . With La Cetra Barockorchester Basel & Sebastian Wienand . Harmonia Mundi , 2019
  • Leonard Bernstein : piano and chamber music. Variations on an Octatonic Scale. With Maria Kliegel , WDR , AVI Music , 2018
  • Baroque Twitter : Arias and Concerti. With Nuria Rial , Basel Chamber Orchestra , Sony Music Entertainment 2018
  • Souvenirs d'Italie : Travel memories of Count Aloys Thomas Raimund von Harrach , with Fiorenza de Donatis, Nadja Zwiener, David Bergmüller, Philippe Grisvard u. v. a., Harmonia Mundi , 2016
  • Antonio Vivaldi : Concerti per flauti Antonio Vivaldi, I Barocchisti , Diego Fasolis , Harmonia Mundi France Production, 2014
  • Una Follia di Napoli: Recorder Concerti by Domenico Sarro , Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti, N. Fiorenza, F. Barbella and L. Leo . With his consort, among others with Fiorenza di Donatis and Andrea Rognoni, violins; Mauro Valli, violoncello; Daniele Caminiti, theorbo; Margit Übellacker, Psalterio; Naoki Kitaya, harpsichord; Vanni Moretto, double bass; Brigitte Gasser, Lirone and others Harmonia Mundi France Production, 2012
  • Mr Corelli in London: Recorder Concerti after Corelli's Sonatas op.5 in the orchestral version by F. Geminiani and ornamented soloparts by Eminent English Masters. With The English Concert and Laurence Cummings , harpsichord. Harmonia Mundi USA Production, 2010
  • Venezia 1625: Sonata, Symphonie, Ciaccone, Canzone e Toccate by Fontana, Uccellini, Storace, Merula e Castello. With Hille Perl , Lee Santana, Naoki Kitaya, Sergio Ciomei, Thomas Boysen, Mauro Valli, Margret Köll, Thor-Harald Johnsen, Sabrina Frey, Eva Borhi, Christian Beuse, Stefan Temmingh , Peter Barczi. Harmonia Mundi 2009
  • Giuseppe Sammartini : Sonata per flauto e basso. With Ciomei, Köll, Valli, Beuse, Egüez, Kitaya. Harmonia Mundi, 2007
  • Georg Philipp Telemann : recorder works. With Academy for Early Music Berlin. Harmonia Mundi, 2006
  • Georg Philipp Telemann: Flute Quartets. With Musica Antiqua Köln and Reinhard Goebel. Deutsche Grammophon / Archive Production 2005
  • Tino Flautino and the magic melody. A musical fairy tale for children from 5 years. (Music by Rodolphe Schacher, premier May 2009) (Schweizerischer Lehrmittelverlag)
  • Tino Flautino and his recorder playing. A musical fairy tale for children from 4 years. (Philips / Universal Music Group CD 476 111-0, MC 476 116-1)
  • Maurice Steger - portrait. Claves Records CD 50-2208
  • Georg Philipp Telemann: Solos & Trios. Claves Records, CD 50-2112
  • Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti per flauto. Claves Records, CD 50-2010
  • La Castella. Claves Records, CD 50-9809
  • An English Collection. Claves Records, CD 50-9614
  • At Italian Ground. Claves Records, CD 50-9407

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ echoklassik.de: Instrumentalist of the Year (flute) ( Memento from December 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 29, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Steger, Maurice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss recorder player and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Winterthur , Switzerland