Simon Reitmaier

Simon Reitmaier (* in Telfs ) is an Austrian clarinetist .

Life

Reitmaier graduated with honors from his studies in clarinet at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg with Alois Brandhofer and at the Johannesgasse University in Vienna with Matthias Schorn . He is a prize winner in national and international competitions. In 2009 he received the START grant from the Austrian Ministry of Culture.

Solo activities took place with the Duisburg Philharmonic, Lower Austrian Tonkünstler, the Salzburg Chamber Soloists, the Regensburg Chamber Orchestra, the Amadeus Consort Salzburg, the Orchestra 1756, the Tyrolean Chamber Orchestra Innstrumenti, the Budapest Virtuosos and concentus 21. Chamber music activities took place with the Auner Quartet, the quartet 1791 and the Goldegg quartet, Joji Hattori, Christoph Traxler, Frank Hoffmann. In June 2013 Reitmaier made his debut in the Carnegie Hall / Weill Recital Hall with the Mahler String Quartet. Concerts in Japan, Taiwan, Russia, USA and Europe followed. Reitmaier participated in CD, radio and TV productions. Reitmaier is particularly interested in the music of the turn of the century. In autumn 2016 he and the actor Frank Hoffmann designed the evening Vienna around 1900 - Life, Dream, Death in the Klimt Villa in Vienna-Hietzing .

In 2014 he released the solo CD Im Atem der Zeit - Music for Clarinet Solo in the Bank Austria Salon / Altes Rathaus. He had other appearances on the ORF show Barbara Rett meets ... , Malta / Gozo Victoria Arts Festival, Neubeurer Week, Salzkammergut Festival Weeks Gmunden, Manoire de Lebioles and in the Austrian Cultural Forum in London. In 2018 Reitmaier released the CD "Clarinet Quintets Mozart, Reger, Leitner" on the Gramola Vienna label together with the Auner Quartet. Reitmaier has been a lecturer at the annual Lilienfeld Summer Academy since 2015 . Johanna Doderer composed the trio "The Blossom" for Reitmaier for clarinet, violin and piano. Kalevi Aho composed Solo XIV for Reitmaier in summer 2018. The quality of Reitmaier's clarinet playing was praised by critics in various appearances.

Reitmaier has lived in Vienna since 2008.

World premieres

In October 2015, as part of the Geras Sounds concert series , the world premiere of Geras Variations for clarinet and accordion by Mayako Kubo , together with Alfred Melichar .

The Austrian composer Ernst Ludwig Leitner composed his clarinet concerto for Simon Reitmaier in the summer of 2014. The world premiere followed in April 2016 (concert hall arlberg 1800) with the Salzburg Chamber Soloists under the direction of Lavard Skou-Larsen.

In October 2016 the world premiere of the Clarinet Concerto anElyson for solo clarinet and chamber orchestra by Franz Baur together with the Tyrolean Chamber Orchestra Innstrumenti under the direction of Gerhard Sammer.

Web links

• Website

Published CDs

• In the Breath of Time - Music for Clarinet Solo
• Ernst-Ludwig Leitner Clarinet Concerto (Salzburg Chamber Soloists)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Robert Schmutz: Geras sounds: music with contrasts. Niederösterreichische Nachrichten , October 23, 2015, accessed on January 7, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Guido Krawinkel: CD review. Klassik-Heute Online, March 10, 2017, accessed on March 10, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Lilienfeld Summer Academy. Retrieved January 7, 2017 . 
4. ^ Maria Frendo: Simon Reitmaier in a splendid solo recital. Victoria Arts Festival, June 21, 2015, accessed January 7, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Veronika Lintner: Ending with Mozart and James Bond. Mittelbayerische Zeitung , August 7, 2016, accessed on January 7, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Ursula Strohal: Virtuoso Melancholy. Print edition of the Tiroler Tageszeitung, December 4, 2014, accessed on January 8, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Lorenz Adamer: Heavenly clarinet and cloudy string sound. Retrieved April 10, 2018 . 
8. ^ Wilhelm Sinkovicz: Ravishing. In: The press. Retrieved June 13, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Ursual Strohal: The dream of Mozart magic and autumn colors. Tiroler Tageszeitung, accessed on December 2, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Leitner Clarinet Concerto CD review. Retrieved January 8, 2017 .