Neithard Resa

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Neithard Resa (born September 1, 1950 in Berlin ) is a German violist and former member of the Berlin Philharmonic .

Life

Resa was born in Berlin five years after the end of World War II, the son of a businessman, and began playing the violin at the age of seven. He studied violin at the Berlin Music Academy in 1969, initially with Michel Schwalbé , from 1971 privately with Marie-Luise von Kleist-König and in 1972 with Max Rostal violin. In 1975 he switched to the viola at his suggestion . In the 1970s he worked with the Aachen Symphony Orchestra through the German Music Council and became a member of the Boerries Quartet . In 1976 he took his final artistic examination and in 1977 the concert exam at the Cologne University of Music . As a scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service , he went to the United States in 1977 , where he was tutored in Philadelphia by the violist of the Guarneri String Quartet , Michael Tree .

As the successor to Giusto Cappone , he became principal violist with the Berliner Philharmoniker from August 24, 1978 to 2010, where he was an orchestra member until his retirement. In addition to playing the orchestra, his main commitment is chamber music. From 1980 to 1987 he played in the Philharmonic Octet , since 1985 he cooperates as a founding member and as a violist with his orchestra colleagues Daniel Stabrawa (first violin), Christian Stadelmann (second violin) and January Diesselhorst (Cello, † 2009) in the Philharmonia Quartett Berlin with . From 1985 to 1997 Neithard Resa taught in the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic . He has appeared as a soloist under conductors such as Bernard Haitink , Daniel Barenboim and Zubin Mehta .

On June 24, 2017, Simon Rattle , the chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, said goodbye to his retirement in the Berlin Philharmonic . He is married to a musician and they have three children together.

literature

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Neithard Resa , in: You - the magazine of culture . Volume 53 (1993), Issue 1: The occupation of a republic: the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
  2. ↑ Festschrift 1924 - 1999 , Society for Theater and Music Friends in Aachen, accessed on March 19, 2018
  3. ↑ Yannik Eisenächer: Brahms, Dvorak, Turnage. Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle, Berliner Philharmonie, June 24, 2017 , Fresh Ears Classics from February 2, 2018, accessed on March 23, 2018
  4. ↑ Address by Neithard Resa on the occasion of his farewell: Johannes Brahms Serenade No. 2 in A major for small orchestra op.16 , Digital Concert Hall on June 24, 2017, accessed on March 23, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Resa, Neithard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violist and former member of the Berlin Philharmonic
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin