Michael Hasel

Michael Hasel (born December 5, 1959 in Hofheim am Taunus ) is a German flautist and conductor.

He began his musical career playing the piano and organ as well as training as a church musician and conductor . He received his first flute lessons from Herbert Grimm and Willy Schmidt. After graduating from high school, he studied in the master class of Prof. Aurèle Nicolet at the Freiburg University of Music.

His first engagement took him from 1982 to 1984 with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra , after which he became a member of the Berlin Philharmonic , where he lived through the last years of the Karajan era .

In 1988 he was a founding member of the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet , with whom he has given concerts worldwide and recorded numerous CDs for the Swedish label BIS.

For many years he was also a regular solo flutist in the orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival under conductors such as Daniel Barenboim , Pierre Boulez and James Levine .

In 1994, the Mannheim University of Music appointed him professor for wind ensemble and chamber music. He worked there until 1998.

He works as a soloist, chamber musician, conductor and teacher at home and abroad.

literature

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

Web links

• Information on windquintet.com