Michael Oman

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Michael Oman (2009)

Michael Oman (born July 11, 1963 in Linz , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian recorder player and ensemble leader who works primarily in the field of historical performance practice . He heads the ensemble Austrian Baroque Company (ABC).

Life

Michael Oman is also internationally active as a recorder soloist and ensemble leader. The baroque musician is now one of the most distinguished and versatile recorder players of his generation. As a graduate of the Musikgymnasium and the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz , he was trained as a recorder player by Walter van Hauwe and Kees Boeke (NL) and the Austrian composer and music teacher Balduin Sulzer (ensemble management / analysis). At the age of 26 he became professor of recorder, chamber music and historical performance practice at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz.

Further lecturing at domestic and foreign universities (Prague), conservatories (Klagenfurt, Thessaloniki) and at master courses for early music (Krieglach, Austria Barockakademie, Schloss Weinberg etc.).

His wide-ranging repertoire extends from unanimous medieval ballads and estampias , the rich consort literature of the Renaissance, to early and high baroque sonatas and concertos, right through to contemporary music .

Under the conductors Marc Albrecht , Philippe Entremont , Peter Schreier , Erwin Ortner , Martin Haselböck , Sir John Eliot Gardiner , Sir Roger Norrington and James Gaffigan as well as with Austrian baroque ensembles, modern chamber orchestras and as the spiritus rector of his ABC he has given concerts worldwide as a recorder soloist and ensemble leader.

In 2001 Michael Oman founded the Austrian Baroque Company, a specialized original sound troupe for the music of the 17th and 18th centuries, which he regularly presents in the form of artistic projects, from intimate recorder recital and baroque ensemble music to recorder concerts.

Numerous CD productions for the labels Arcana (F), Symphonia (I), Chesky Records (USA), cpo (D) and novalis (CH) with Austrian baroque music, G.Ph.Telemann and JS Bach (4th Brandenburg concert together with Kees Boeke ). His CD recordings have won several international awards. Innovative program concepts as well as his impulsive and highly virtuoso recorder playing received the highest praise from audience and press alike. In 2009 Michael Oman and his ABC started a cooperation with Sony Music (deutsche harmonia mundi) with two CD recordings: “Exit baroque” and Handel ’s “Neun deutsche Arien” with the Spanish soprano Nuria Rial . His recording "Süße Stille, Gentle Quelle" (with ABC & Nuria Rial) was awarded the "Orphée d'Or" by the Académie du Disque Lyrique in 2010.

In addition to his educational work as a lecturer in seminars, workshops and master classes for recorder and early music , he also deals intensively with contemporary recorder music. In this context he gave world premieres by Upper Austrian composers and presented composer portraits in 1997 by Isang Yun (“Chinese Pictures”), in 2005 by Luciano Berio (“Gesti”) and in 2008 by Karlheinz Stockhausen (“In Friendship”).

As artistic curator , Michael Oman has been in charge of the concert series “Evening Music in the Ursuline Church” Linz since 2007 and founded the “Eferdinger Schlosskonzerte” in 2009.

In recent years he has devoted his artistic activity almost exclusively to his own ensemble, the ABC, as well as solo appearances with various chamber orchestras and period ensembles.

Michael Oman owns around 30 recorders of various sizes and types (Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque). He gives concerts exclusively on instruments made by recorder makers Ernst Meyer (CH), Andreas Schwob (CH), Fred Morgan (AUS † 1999) and Friedrich von Huene (USA).

Discography

Austrian Baroque Company

  • 2009: Exit baroque
  • 2009: sweet silence, gentle spring

Oman Consort

  • 2007: Greetings from London
  • 2005: La Passione rossa
  • 2003: La Suave Melodia
  • 2002: Musica Britannica

Ars Antiqua Austria

  • 2005: Bononcini
  • 2001: Francesco Conti - Cantate con istromenti I-IV
  • 1997: Biber / Schmelzer
  • 1996: JS Bach (4 orchestral suites)
  • 1995: JS Bach
  • 1994: Romanus Weichlein II
  • 1994: Biber violin sonatas
  • 1993: Romanus Weichlein I

Armonico Tributo Austria

  • 1999: Georg Muffat
  • 1998: Johann Joseph Fux
  • 1996: JH Schmelzer
  • 1996: G. Ph. Telemann
  • 1992: Johann Joseph Fux

Vienna Academy

  • 1994: G. Ph. Telemann

Awards / CD Awards (selection)

  • 2010: Orphée d'Or (Paris) for CD Sweet Silence, Gentle Source
  • 2008: Toccata CD of the month (Regensburg) for CD Greetings from London
  • 2004: Supersonic pizzicato (Luxembourg) for CD La Suave Melodia
  • 2002: Diapason d'Or (Paris) for CD F. Conti, cantatas
  • 2002: Goldberg 5 (Pamplona) for CD Musica Britannica

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personal data
SURNAME Oman, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian recorder player and ensemble leader
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz , Upper Austria