Roswitha Staege

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Roswitha Staege (* 1950 in Berlin ) is a German flautist and music teacher.

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Roswitha Staege was born in Berlin in 1950. At the age of eleven she began studying the recorder with Thea von Sparr at the Berlin Conservatory (today: Julius Stern Institute of the University of the Arts). She completed this course in 1969 at the same time as her Abitur examination with a diploma. Since April 1969 she has studied flute in Hamburg with Karlheinz and Gertrud Zoeller and since 1974 in Berlin with James Galway in the orchestra academy of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. She took part in master classes with Jean Pierre Rampal and Marcel Moyse . She won numerous international music competitions, including the ARD International Music Competition in Munich in 1974.

In the same year she became principal flautist at the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra . As a soloist and chamber musician, Roswitha Staege has been a guest at numerous festivals around the world. She gave master classes in France, Germany, Austria, Japan and Switzerland. She was particularly interested in the music of the 18th century and new music. Roswitha Staege had a special relationship with the composer Hans Zender , who dedicated several pieces to her, and Isang Yun , whose flute concerto she performed around 27 times around the world. Staege inspired Isang Yun to write several compositions.

Many radio and television recordings as well as recordings on sound carriers are evidence of her broad repertoire. Staege has been a professor at the Saar University of Music since 1994 . In 1996 she was appointed to the Berlin University of the Arts , where she taught until 2016. For several years she also held a visiting professorship at Elizabeth University in Hiroshima, Japan.

Staege has been a member of the German Music Council for many years . She has participated in numerous juries at music competitions and is chairwoman of the Paul Hindemith Society in Berlin .

The American music critic Harold C. Schonberg characterized her in the New York Times as a "sensitive musician and accomplished virtuoso".

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  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Roswitha Staege: In: Goethe Institut Korea.
  2. ↑ a b Roswitha Staege. In: Berliner Festspiele.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Roswitha Staege. In: holzbläser.com
  4. ^ Website of the Paul Hindemith Society
personal data
SURNAME Staege, Roswitha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German flautist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin