Sarah Willis (horn player)
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Sarah Willis (born February 23, 1968 in Maryland , USA ) is a British horn player .
Life
When Sarah Willis was born, her father was an Australian foreign correspondent in the United States; her mother wrote newspaper articles as a dance critic. Sarah grew up in Tokyo, Boston, Moscow (five years) and finally in England and began taking horn lessons at the age of 14. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and then with the horn player Fergus McWilliam in Berlin .
After the fall of the Berlin Wall , she became the first professional musician from the West to become a member of the Staatskapelle Berlin in 1991 . She worked under Daniel Barenboim at the German State Opera . In 2001 she became the first woman in this position to play horn with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Simon Rattle . Willis has also been a guest in various orchestras, such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra , the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra , and she also makes solo appearances. In 2011 she was the mentor of the horn group for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra in Sydney for five days and at the final concert she was one of the moderators live on the Internet in front of 33 million viewers.
Willis conceives and moderates family concerts for the Berliner Philharmoniker, acts as a moderator in the education program of the Berliner Philharmoniker and interviews conductors and soloists for the Digital Concert Hall . Willis runs a horn community on Facebook and interviews other musicians on Google Hangouts .
Since 2014 she has moderated the weekly music magazine “Sarah's Music” on DW-TV .
Sound recordings
- Three concertos for two horns by Antonio Rosetti. Klaus Wallendorf, Sarah Willis, Bavarian Chamber Philharmonic under Johannes Moesus . cpo, 2002
- “Trio!” Trios for horn, violin and piano by Brahms, Duvernoy and Mozart. Alexander Mainz, 2009
literature
- Berliner Philharmoniker: Variations with Orchestra - 125 Years of the Berliner Philharmoniker , Volume 2, Biographies and Concerts, Verlag Henschel, May 2007, ISBN 978-3-89487-568-8
Web links
- Literature by and about Sarah Willis in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Sarah Willis in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Sarah Willis in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Verena Mayer: Star horn player Sarah Willis: "We wind instruments are like high-performance athletes" , Interview, in: Der Tagesspiegel , April 22, 2014
- Sarah Willis , with the Berliner Philharmoniker
- Sarah Willis, at Berlin Brass
- Sarah Willis, website
- Albert Imperato: What a Berlin Philharmonic Horn Player Learned From the YouTube Symphony Orchestra . In: The Huffington Post , April 13, 2011
- WDR 5 (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) table discussion on September 20, 2017: Horn player Sarah Willis in conversation with Gisela Steinhauer
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chart sources: DE
- ↑ According to the literature of the Berliner Philharmoniker, birthday according to LCNAF: February 2, 1968. The GND names 1969 as the year of birth, query date: November 29, 2014.
- ↑ My other roles in the orchestra include organizing the Christmas party and cleaning up after my horn colleagues in our horn room. The Huffington Post, April 13, 2011
- ^ Concert , on YouTube
- ↑ Sarah's Music on the DW-TV website. Retrieved March 6, 2016 .
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| SURNAME | Willis, Sarah |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British bugler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Maryland , USA |