Sabine Meyer

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Sabine Meyer (born March 30, 1959 in Crailsheim ) is a German clarinetist and is one of the world's most renowned instrumental soloists.

Sabine Meyer
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Solo clarinetist and professor at the Lübeck University of Music
Genres Classical and modern music
Instruments Clarinet and basset clarinet in Bb and A, basset horn in F
Year of birth 1959 (age 61)
place of birth Crailsheim GermanyGermanyGermany 
education 1. State University for Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart with Otto Hermann

2. Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media with Hans Deinzer

Annual_appearances about 60
Years active since 1983
Awards, honors Eight-time winner of the ECHO Klassik Prize , Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class , Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg , Brahms Prize and several other culture, art and music prizes
Associated with - Berliner Philharmoniker
- Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Trio di Clarone
- Sabine Meyer wind ensemble
Recordings Numerous CDs, a DVD, video and audio recordings on YouTube and takt1, audio recordings also on Spotify and Deezer
CD labels EMI Classics, Warner Classics, Avi-music, Sony, Deutsche Grammophon
Known students Shirley Brill (Israel), Sebastian Manz (Germany), Annelien Van Wauwe (Belgium) and others
Agency Concert director Hans Ulrich Schmid, Hanover
Website http://www.sabine-meyer.com
family Married to Reiner Wehle ,
2 grown children
Hobbies Riding, horse breeding
residence Lübeck GermanyGermanyGermany 

Education and career

Sabine Meyer received her training as a clarinetist at the State University for Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart , with Otto Hermann and then at the University for Music, Theater and Media Hanover , with Hans Deinzer .

After a brief stint in the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra , Sabine Meyer became one of the first women with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1983 , but gave up her position as principal clarinet there because of her disputes between the orchestra and the conductor Herbert von Karajan , and she was increasingly doing other things as a soloist was asked. Since 1993 she has held a professorship at the Lübeck University of Music together with her husband Reiner Wehle . In 1994 she worked with the jazz clarinetist Eddie Daniels and the arranger / composer Torrie Zito ("Blues for Sabine"). Some of her students have also made a name for themselves as soloists. E.g. the Israeli clarinetists Shirley Brill and Shelly Ezra and the Hungarian clarinetist Boglárka Pecze (all three live in Germany), the Belgian clarinetist Annelien Van Wauwe , the German clarinetist Sebastian Manz and the Japanese clarinetist Taira Kaneko.

In the course of her career, Sabine Meyer has performed with more than 300 orchestras around the world, including many top international orchestras. Radio and television appearances also took her to all continents. She was and is also active in the field of chamber music, including with artists such as Heinrich Schiff , Gidon Kremer , Oleg Maisenberg , Leif Ove Andsnes , Fazil Say , Martin Helmchen , Juliane Banse , the Hagen Quartet, the Tokyo String Quartet and the Modigliani Quartet . Based on the schedule on her website, it can be assumed that the artist makes about 60 appearances per year.

In 1983 she founded the Trio di Clarone with her husband and her brother Wolfgang Meyer, who died in March 2019, with the line-up clarinet, basset horn and bass clarinet, with clarinet and basset horn played by everyone, bass clarinet only by Reiner Wehle. So could z. B. also works for three basset horns are performed.

Sabine Meyer's repertoire includes works from the pre-classical, classical and romantic periods as well as contemporary music. Works by the composers Jean Françaix , Edison Denissov, Harald Genzmer , Toshio Hosokawa , Niccolo Castiglioni, Manfred Trojahn , Aribert Reimann , Peter Eötvös and Oscar Bianchi were dedicated to her.

Size comparison between basset clarinet and normal clarinet

Instruments

Sabine Meyer plays clarinets and basset clarinets in Bb and A as well as a basset horn in F, all made of grenadilla by the Herbert Wurlitzer manufactory and a set of clarinets in B and A made of boxwood , made by the Schwenk & Seggelke manufactory , which uses them primarily for chamber music .

She had her first basset clarinet (in A), not a historical replica, but a modern instrument that had only been built sporadically until then, and had since then been used to play Mozart's clarinet concerto and occasionally his clarinet quintet, both originally written for basset clarinet, to play in reconstructed versions with passages that are set lower again. Because of its popularity, it made this almost forgotten member of the clarinet family known again, which is about 18 cm longer than the normal clarinet to produce the lower notes C to Eb. Other soloists followed their example. They use either a replica of a historical instrument or a modern basset clarinet, see. the YouTube video "Mozart, Klarinettenkonzert" under web links.

Discography

Sabine Meyer has recorded the following CDs, among others :.

  • 1988 Krommer: Concerti opp. 35 & 91; Rossini: Variazioni; Introduzione, Tema e Variazione, EMI Music
  • 1990 Artist of our generation, EMI Music
  • 1991 Johannes Brahms, Isang Yun: Clarinet Quintets, EMI Music
  • 1993 clarinet concerts, EMI Music
  • 1991 Krommer: Octets for Wind Instruments, EMI Music
  • 1993 Johann & Carl Stamitz: Clarinet Concerts, Vol. 1, EMI Music
  • 1994 Mozart: Clarinet Quintet; Oboe quartet; Horn Quintet, Denon Records
  • 1994 Clarinet Connection: The Great Concertos, EMI Music
  • 1994 Danzi, RCA
  • 1995 Carl Stamitz: Clarinet Concerts, Vol. 2, EMI Music
  • 1995 Dvorák & Myslivecek: Serenades for Wind Instruments, EMI Music
  • 1996 A Night at the Opera, EMI Music
  • 1997 Goldschmidt: The Concertos, London Records
  • 1997 Sabine Meyer Plays Mozart - Serenades K. 375 & K.388, EMI Music
  • 1998 Homage To Benny Goodman, EMI Music
  • 1998 Mozart: Clarinet Concerto KV 622 & Sinf. Concert. KV, EMI Music
  • 1999 Brahms: Clarinet Quintet, Op. 115; String Quintet No. 2, Op. 111, EMI Music
  • 1999 Blues for Sabine, EMI Music
  • 1999 Mozart: Clarinet Concerto; Claude Debussy: Première Rhapsody; Toru Takemitsu: Fantasma / Cantos, EMI Music
  • 2000 Weber: Clarinet Concertos 1 & 2; Concertino, Op. 26, EMI Classics
  • 2001 Mozart: Flute Concerto No. 1; Clarinet concerto; Concerto for Flute & Harp, Warner Classics
  • 2001 Sabine Meyer Plays Mozart - Clarinet & Horn Quintet, EMI Music
  • 2001 Sabine Meyer Plays Mozart: Serenade, K361 "Gran Partita", EMI Music
  • 2001 Sabine Meyer Plays Krommer, EMI Music
  • 2001 Sabine Meyer Plays Romantic Music, EMI Music
  • 2002 Weber: Clarinet Quintet; Mendelssohn: concert pieces; Heinrich Baermann: Clarinet Quintet No. 3, EMI Music
  • 2003 Weber: Clarinet Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Concertino; Clarinet Quintet, EMI Music
  • 2003 Brahms, Berg: Works for Clarinet and Piano, EMI Music
  • 2005 Una Voce… per Clarone, Avi
  • 2003 Paris Mécanique, Marsyas
  • 2006 Schumann, Bruch, Avi
  • 2006 Richard Strauss: Wind Ensemble Sabine Meyer
  • 2007 Sabine Meyer Plays Devienne, Poulenc, Saint-Saëns, Milhaud, EMI Music
  • 2007 Krommer: Double Clarinet Concerto; Spohr: Clarinet Concertos Nos. 2 & 4, EMI Music
  • 2007 Carl Nielsen: Clarinet & Flute Concertos; Wind Quintet, Warner Classics
  • 2008 Jazz Clazz, Timba Records
  • 2009 Mozart and Bach: Adagios & Fugen, Avi
  • 2010 Sabine Meyer - A Portrait, Warner Classics
  • 2011 Mozart: Chamber music with clarinet, EMI Music
  • 2013 Mozart, Brahms: Clarinet Quintets, Sony Classical
  • 2013 Mozart Arias, Sony Classical
  • 2015 Mozart (clarinet concert / Sinfonia concertante), Warner Classigs
  • 2016 Fantasia, Sony Classical

The artist is represented with image and sound recordings on YouTube and takt1, with sound recordings on Spotify and Deezer.

Awards

Personal

The artist lives with her husband in the old town of Lübeck , they have two children. Her hobbies are cooking, reading, horse riding and horse breeding.

Web links

Commons : Sabine Meyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ References to this section: website (biography) and the following 2 to 6
  2. ^ Matthias Hannemann: Solo for clarinet . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 29, 2007. Accessed December 9, 2019. 
  3. ^ Alfred Zimmerlin: Avant-garde of Romanticism . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 4, 2013. Accessed December 9, 2019. 
  4. ↑ Pedro Obiera: Chamber music full of poetry and passion . In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , March 7, 2017. Accessed December 9, 2019. 
  5. ^ Elisabeth Schwarz: "Besides that, everything fades first": Sabine Meyer on Mozart's basset clarinet concerto . In: bachtrack.com . Bachtrack Ltd .. May 28, 2018. Accessed December 9, 2019.
  6. ↑ Roland Kunz: The clarinetist Sabine Meyer turns 60 . In: swr.de . Südwestrundfunk. March 28, 2019. Retrieved December 9, 2019.
  7. ↑ Sabine Meyer | Album discography. Retrieved June 17, 2020 .
  8. ^ Discography - Sabine Meyer. Retrieved June 17, 2020 .
  9. ^ Sabine Meyer - Topic. Retrieved June 17, 2020 (German).
  10. ↑ Past winners. Website of the Brahms Society Schleswig-Holstein, accessed on May 16, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Communication from the Office of the Federal President , accessed on October 4, 2013
  12. ^ Rudolf-Oetker-Halle
  13. ^ Trio di Clarone, biography
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Sabine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clarinetist
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Crailsheim