Quintessence - Leipzig flute ensemble

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Quintessence - Leipzig flute ensemble
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General information
Genre (s) Classic, jazz
founding 1996
Website www.quintessenz-leipzig.de
Current occupation
1st flute
 Anna Garzuly
Flute, piccolo
 Gudrun Hinze
flute
 Ute Günther
Alto flute
 Bettine Keyßer (since 2000)
Bass flute
 Christian Sprenger
former members
flute
 Britta Croissant
Labels
Dabringhaus & Grimm
Genuine

Quintessenz - Leipziger Flute Ensemble is a flute quintet from Leipzig . It consists of five musicians from the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig , the MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig and the Staatskapelle Halle . The ensemble's repertoire includes pieces from every musical era and almost every style.

history

The Leipzig flute ensemble Quintessenz was founded in 1996. The British a cappella group “ King's Singers ” and the “Bamboozles”, a flute quintet made up of students from Trevor Wye, served as role models. The five Leipzig flautists were enthusiastic about the ensembles being cast with the same instruments of different voices. At first, “Quintessenz” met privately to play jazz music. Since they were all trained classically and not as jazz flutists, they quickly developed their own style. Everything they played was based on the classic flautist character from the start. Due to a lack of literature, “Quintessenz” began to arrange their own pieces. They not only worked on quintet literature, but also symphonic pieces, piano or foreign literature. So they started putting together their own programs. In 1999 "Quintessenz" recorded their first CD, four more productions followed. In 2006, “Quintessenz” took part in the British Flute Society's Flute Festival in Manchester at the invitation of Trevor Wye . Since then they have played at international festivals, including in August 2009 in New York at the Festival of the National Flute Association of the USA. For some time now, “Quintessenz” has been concentrating more and more on promoting young talent. In cooperation with the State Music Council of Saxony and Jeunesses Musicales Germany , several workshops for flute chamber music were created .

program

Due to their own musical style, the programs of "Quintessenz" also have a special character. There is always an overarching theme to which the pieces can be subordinated. This theme can be musical or composer-specific (“Mozartimento”), but can also be country-specific (“America!”) Or literature-specific (“Tour de France”). In addition, “Quintessenz” have some special programs in which they combine music and poetry (“Hymn to the Fish”, “All Birds, All”). They are supported by actors who recite poems and other texts on the respective topic. “Quintessenz” partners, for example, were Michael Mechel and Günter Schoßböck .

A special form of these programs is the “musical walk”. The audience is invited to take a walk through the landscape together, during which program items are performed at various locations. Other programs include a. “A Midsummer Night's Dream” - the program for the Mendelssohn year 2009. Excerpts from the music for “ Midsummer Night's Dream ” form the framework, supplemented with other pieces on the subject of summer, night and elf spook.

Members

Anna Garzuly

Anna Garzuly was born in Szombathely / Hungary . She studied in Budapest , Munich and New York with Paul Meisen and Jeanne Baxtresser, among others . Since 1995 she has been deputy solo flutist in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra . She is the winner of international competitions in Scheveningen , Kobe , Budapest, Geneva . She also works as a soloist, lecturer in master classes and jury member in competitions.

Gudrun Hinze

Gudrun Hinze was born in Homburg . She completed her studies in Düsseldorf and Essen . After engagements with the symphony orchestras of the WDR and the MDR, she has been solo piccolo flutist in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra since 1993 and a member of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra since 1999 . At the University of Music Hannover it had from 2003 to 2011 a lecturer in the subject piccolo , the year 2011 was at the Munich Music Academy appointed.

Ute Günther

Ute Günther comes from Dresden . From 1986 to 1991 she studied at the Dresden University of Music with Siegfried Teubel and Eckart Haupt . Her first engagement was as a solo flutist in the Radiophilharmonie Leipzig. Today she is deputy first flutist in the MDR symphony orchestra. She also studied transverse flute at the Leipzig University of Music from 1999 to 2002 with Benedek Csalog and has since played in various ensembles with historical performance practice.

Bettine Keyßer

Bettine Keyßer, born in Potsdam , studied flute in Berlin with Dietrich Hoenow ( HfM "Hanns Eisler" ) and Eric Kirchhoff ( HdK Berlin ), and in Birmingham / Alabama with Sheryl Cohen. After an engagement at the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock as solo piccolist, she has been deputy solo flutist in the Staatskapelle Halle since 1999.

Christian Sprenger

Christian Sprenger comes from Berlin. After studying in Berlin with Werner Tast, his first engagement with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra followed in 1989. In 1995 he became principal flutist with the MDR Symphony Orchestra. His concert activities as a soloist and member of various chamber ensembles have taken him to the USA , Turkey , Italy and England, among others .

Discography

  • 1999: Bonsoir Audiomax 703 1153-2
  • 2003: Arabesques Audiomax 1179-2
  • 2006: America! Audiomax 703 1342-2
  • 2007: Tour de France GEN 87108
  • 2012: Essence of Christmas GEN 12253

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