Silke Aichhorn

Silke Aichhorn at the 2003 Poet Award Ceremony

Silke Aichhorn is a German harpist who performs both as a soloist and as a chamber musician .

life and work

Silke Aichhorn received her first harp lessons from Ursula Lentrodt at the Music School in Traunstein in 1981 . From 1990 she studied the instrument with Chantal Mathieu at the Conservatoire de Lausanne . In 1997 she received her artistic diploma from Han-An Liu at the Cologne University of Music .

With her extensive repertoire, she can be heard in various chamber music ensembles, as a soloist with orchestra at international festivals as well as in television and radio recordings. In addition to concert appearances in Europe, she has appeared in Australia , Brazil , Thailand , Japan and the USA . She works regularly with the flautist Dejan Gavric and the harpist Regine Kofler . In 2006 she founded her own CD label HÖRMUSIK .

Aichhorn has won multiple awards at international competitions. In 2001 she received the advancement award at the Rhineland-Palatinate Art Prize and in 2003 the Bavarian Poetentaler . In December 2012 she was honored as a culture and creative pilot 2012 by the initiative culture and creative industries of the German federal government . Since March 2013 she has been the hospice ambassador for Caritas Traunstein.

She is also a jury member at harp competitions and regularly gives master classes . In 2004 she had a teaching position at the Vorarlberg State Conservatory in Feldkirch, and in 2010 a guest lecturer for chamber music with harp at the Mainz University of Music . She taught several times at the Landesakademie Ochsenhausen , 2010-2013 she was a lecturer at the Festival Femusc in Jaraguá do Sul , Brazil. Since 2016 she has also been the managing director of the regional committee Jugend musiziert Südostbayern.

Silke Aichhorn lives in Traunstein, Bavaria. She is married and has two daughters.

Discography

Harp solo

• Miniatures 4
• Harp sounds for the soul 3
• Miniatures 3
• Harp sounds for the soul 2
• Miniatures 2
• Harping on a harp (Bernard Andrès, Gertraud Gorter, Deborah Henson-Conant , Robert Maxwell and others)
• St. Petersburg - Paris ( Reinhold Glière , Michail Glinka , Marcel Tournier , Pjotr ​​Ilyich Tchaikovsky and others)
• Christmas harp sounds ( baroque music , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Irish folk music, etc.)
• Harp sounds for the soul ( Johann Sebastian Bach , Alphonse Hasselmans and others)
• Night music ( Félix Godefroid , Engelbert Humperdinck , Louis Spohr , John Thomas and others)
• Images - virtuoso harp music of the 19th and 20th centuries
• Heavenly harp sounds
• Miniatures ( Marcel Grandjany , Carlos Salzedo and others)

Chamber music

• Harp duo (with Regine Kofler)
• Trumpet-Harp (with Georg Holzner, trumpet)
• Instruments de la poésie (with Dejan Gavric)
• Spohr Duo (with Ervis Gega, violin)
• Trio ArpaCantabile (with Christin Mollnar, soprano and Elisabeth Neuhäusler, mezzo-soprano)
• Duo flute - harp (with Dejan Gavric)

Harp and orchestra

• Harp concerts by Ernst and Jean-Théophile Eichner (with the Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester under Stefan Fraas) - world premiere recording
• Harp concerts by Johann Wilhelm Hertel (with the Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim under Kevin Griffiths) - world premiere recording
• Wolfgang Amadé Mozart (with Dejan Gavric, flute and the Folkwang Chamber Orchestra Essen under Peter Ewaldt)

Recitation and harp

• Because it wants to be evening ... (reflections on farewell and eternity, with Martin Fogt )
• The girl with the sulfur sticks (Christmas CD, with Martin Fogt)

Children's CD

• Susie and the great glissando (with Monique Mead, violin and others)

Fonts

• Rejoice for life. The bizarre from the everyday life of a harpist. Verlag Hörmusik, Traunstein 2019, ISBN 978-3-96443-944-4 , e-book: ISBN 978-3-96544-868-1 .

literature

• "The harp is a very athletic instrument", in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), April 29, 2019, p. 7, online under the title: "Wash your hands, then you can pluck!"

Web links

• Literature by and about Silke Aichhorn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Internet presence of Silke Aichhorn
• Short film about Aichhorn's harp exhibition at Vimeo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Aichhorn, Silke. In: alpha forum. ARD-alpha , November 16, 2015, accessed on July 27, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Title bearer ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website Kultur- und Kreativpiloten Deutschland ; Retrieved March 13, 2013. 
3. ^ Members of the Federal Jury. 2013 ( Memento from October 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Jugend musiziert
4. ↑ Speakers at the Landesakademie Ochsenhausen in 2012 ( Memento from February 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ List of lecturers at the FEMUSC Festival 2011 (PDF; 100 kB), accessed on December 11, 2010.
6. ↑ Silke Aichhorn ( Memento of the original dated December 14, 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. on the website of Jugend musiziert, accessed on December 14, 2016. 
7. ↑ Silke Aichhorn in conversation with Hans-Jürgen Mende. ARD-alpha , October 9, 2015, accessed on July 27, 2016 .