Sabine Grofmeier
Sabine Grofmeier | |
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job | Solo clarinetist |
Genres | Classical and romantic music, performed as orchestral and chamber music |
Year of birth | 1973 (age 47) |
place of birth | Marl Germany![]() |
education | 1. Detmold University of Music with Hans-Dietrich Klaus and Frits Hauser
2. University of Music and Performing Arts Graz with Stefan Schilling |
Recordings | three CDs, video and audio recordings on YouTube, audio recordings also on Spotify and Deezer |
Agency | Artist Marketing Manfred Wichmann, Ahrensburg |
Website | http://www.sabinegrofmeier.de |
residence | Hamburg Germany![]() |
Sabine Grofmeier (born April 4, 1973 in Marl ) is a German clarinetist who specializes in classical music. She appears as a soloist in the field of orchestral music and as a chamber musician in Germany and in several other countries.
Life
From 1991 to 1996 Sabine Grofmeier studied clarinet with Hans-Dietrich Klaus and Frits Hauser at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold and completed her studies as a qualified music teacher . From 1996 to 1999 she studied with Stefan Schilling at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz . There she passed the artistic maturity examination in 1999 . Further studies followed with Eduard Brunner at the Saar University of Music in Saarbrücken . She also attended master classes with soloists such as Sabine Meyer and Wolfgang Meyer as well as Ralph Manno .
In 1996 the clarinetist received the sponsorship award from the Society for the Promotion of Westphalian Cultural Work in Münster , she was a scholarship holder of the Villa Musica Foundation of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate , the Richard Wagner Society, the Schwetzinger Festival and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
As principal clarinetist, Grofmeier has performed with the Young German Philharmonic , the Philharmonic of Nations and the Bonn Classical Philharmonic under conductors such as Hans Zender , Justus Frantz and Semjon Bytschkow . As a lecturer , she taught at the Villa Denis Foundation House of the Technical University of Kaiserslautern , where she also directs her own chamber music series.
She has been repeatedly invited to Central and South America by the Goethe-Institut Mexico to teach master classes for young musicians at an orchestral academy, such as in 2012 at the Central American Youth Orchestra in El Salvador .
As a soloist, she recorded not only well-known works by famous composers such as Mozart , Schumann or Weber but also some rarities on sound carriers. These include clarinet studies by Carl Baermann and the most recently recorded clarinet concerto by Ignaz Josef Pleyel . In addition, the radio broadcaster WDR3 recorded a live chamber concert from the concerto discreto series with Sabine Grofmeier in January 2016 .
Sabine Grofmeier lives in Hamburg today . Before that she was at home in Mallorca for many years , where she directed the Capdepera International Music Festival .
Discography
- 2009: Debut album - Sabine Grofmeier, clarinet: Berg, Fromm-Michaels, Messiaen, Schumann & von Weber
- 2010: Clarinet Tales: Schumann Romances op. 94, Weber Silvana Var. op. 33, Winding, Reinecke, Reissiger
- 2015: Baermann: Complete Studies for Clarinet, op.64
Web links
- Official website of Sabine Grofmeier
- Interview: Sexy, talented and a feast for the ears. The story of a clarinetist!
- Video: Sabine Grofmeier interprets the Mozart Concerto
- Video: Studies for Clarinet by Carl Baermann, Op. 64 No. 8, with piano accompaniment
Individual evidence
- ↑ GWK - Society for the Promotion of Westphalian Cultural Work: Prize Winner Music , accessed on April 9, 2020
- ↑ Sabine Grofmeier, Vita
- ↑ Villa Denis: Stiftungshaus der TU Kaiserslautern ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 20, 2016
- ↑ uni-kl.de: The Lecturer - Sabine Grofmeier ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 18, 2016
- ^ El Salvador Orchestra Academy: Music and Development , accessed on March 22, 2016
- ^ Goethe-Institut Mexico: Central American Youth Orchestra 2012 , accessed on March 20, 2016
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SURNAME | Grofmeier, Sabine |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German clarinetist |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 4th 1973 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Marl |