Siegfried Pank

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Siegfried Pank with violoncello piccolo at the 68th Greifswald Bach Week 2014

Siegfried Pank (born March 24, 1936 in Salzwedel ) is a German cellist and gambist , he is considered the nestor of the early music movement in Germany.

biography

The son of a bridge-building engineer and amateur musician as well as great-grandson of the Leipzig superintendent Oskar Pank grew up in Danzig (Pomerania). In 1944 he was sent to Borna , where he received piano and cello lessons. From 1948 to 1952 he was a student at the Pforta State School , then until 1954 at the Thomas School in Leipzig . From 1952 to 1954 he was a member of the Leipzig Thomanerchor under Günther Ramin ; he had cello lessons with Rudolf Wintgen .

Pank then studied cello at the State University of Music in Leipzig with August Eichhorn until 1959 . He got his first job as a solo cellist at the Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Theater in Bernburg. From 1960 he was first solo cellist in the new orchestra of the Musical Comedy Leipzig, in 1962 he became a member of the Gewandhaus Orchestra and from 1973 deputy solo cellist. In addition, he was and is active as a soloist and orchestral musician, he played at the New Bach Collegium Musicum and went on extensive concert tours. As a Gewandhaus musician, at the suggestion of Wieland Kuijken and Jordi Savall, he worked intensively on the viola da gamba . Since then he has stood for a viol playing which seeks to come close to the baroque ideal.

In 1980 he left the Gewandhaus and took on a teaching position at what is now the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" College of Music , where he became a lecturer in 1984 until he was appointed professor for cello and viola da gamba in 1988. In 1991 he founded and built up the field of early music. In 2001 Pank retired and in the summer of 2006 his teaching position ended. He held seminars and master classes and published a lot, especially about performance practice and the interpretation of 17th and 18th century music. He is also a jury member at the German Music Council and in several international competitions, including the Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig, the Bach - Abel Competition in Köthen and at the Magdeburg Telemann festival days . Pank has been President of the International Telemann Society since 2012 . V.

Pank continues to develop a lively musical activity, together with other soloists, the baroque trio Schwarz / Pank / Becker-Foss (with Gotthold Schwarz and Hans Christoph Becker-Foss ), the Leipzig Concert and numerous other ensembles such as the Saxon Vocal Ensemble .

Pank lives in Markkleeberg near Leipzig. His son Sebastian Pank is also a musician and the founder and owner of the record label Raumklang at Schloss Goseck, which specializes in early music .

Awards

On September 10, 2008 Siegfried Pank received the honorary award of the Brandenburg Bach Society at a concert at the Bachtage Potsdam. He was honored for his artistic, musicological and educational services to the care of Bach and for his commitment to the Potsdam Bach Days.

In recognition of the dissemination of Telemann's works, Pank received the Georg-Philipp-Telemann-Prize of the state capital Magdeburg on March 9, 2012 as part of the opening concert of the 21st Telemann Festival .

On October 7, 2018, Siegfried Pank was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of Saxony-Anhalt by the Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt, Reiner Haseloff (CDU), as part of the opening of the 7th Bach Abel Competition in the Hall of Mirrors of Köthen Castle.

literature

  • Hans-Rainer Jung: The Gewandhaus Orchestra. Its members and its history since 1743. With contributions on cultural and contemporary history by Claudius Böhm , Faber and Faber, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-936618-86-0 , p. 277.
  • »Weed weeds so you don't lose track ...« Interview with Prof. em. Siegried Pank on the occasion of his 70th birthday. In: JOURNAL magazine of the University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig, No. 21, summer semester 2006, p. 46 f.
  • Werner Wolf: Siegfried Pank 75. A life for cello, viol and early music. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung, March 24, 2011, p. 10.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ International Telemann Society e. V.: Siegfried Pank is the new President of ITG. Press release from March 19, 2012; accessed on January 11, 2018.
  2. ^ Website of the baroque trio black | pank | becker-foss.
  3. ^ Concert dates of Siegfried Pank.
  4. ↑ Matthias Müller: Evening of the Viola da Gamba - Bach days honorary award for the soloist Siegfried Pank. In: Märkische Allgemeine, Potsdamer Stadtkurier, from September 12, 2008.
  5. ^ Brandenburgische Bachgesellschaft: Siegfried Pank ( Memento from October 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).
  6. ↑ International Telemann Society e. V .: Prof. Siegfried Pank receives the 2012 Telemann Prize. Press release from November 24, 2011; accessed on January 11, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Pank, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cellist and gambist
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzwedel