Sophia Reuter

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Sophia Reuter (* 1971 in Dresden ) is a German violinist and violist . She has been a member of the Staatskapelle Berlin since 2018 .

Life

Sophia Reuter was born in 1971 as the daughter of the conductor Rolf Reuter (1926–2007) and the musicologist Claudia Reuter , b. Herzfeld, born in Dresden. Her grandfather was the music teacher and composer Fritz Reuter (1896–1963). At the age of five she received her first violin lessons from Klaus Hertel in Leipzig. Later Peter Tietze was her teacher in Berlin. Reuter attended the Hanns Eisler Special School for Music in Berlin . As a ten-year-old, she appeared at public concerts that were noted in the GDR press. In 1982 she was the youngest participant and, at the same time, the youngest winner of the 6th competition for schoolchildren and young people "Johann Sebastian Bach" in Leipzig. She came third on the violin in her age group. In 1984 she performed with her sisters Agnes Reuter and Anna Niebuhr-Reuter at a "family concert" that was accompanied by her father . Chamber music works by grandfather were interpreted. In 1988 she received first prize at the music competition in Weimar.

In 1989 she auditioned Sir Yehudi Menuhin in Berlin, who invited her to the International Menuhin Music Academy (IMMA) in Gstaad in the canton of Bern . From 1989 to 1993 she studied violin, viola and chamber music free of charge with Alberto Lysy and Yehudi Menuhin. In 1991 she and her teacher Alberto Lysy performed Mozart's Concertone in C major KV 190 in the concert series of the Komische Oper , of which her father was the general director. As one of several young musicians of the Camerata Lysy Gstaad of the IMMA, she played the final concert of the "European Chamber Music Days Berlin-Rheinsberg-Potsdam" at the Komische Oper Berlin in 1992 under the direction of Yehudi Menuhin. Reviewers in the Neue Zeit and the Berliner Zeitung praised her violin performance. Then she attended master classes with u. a. Ruggiero Ricci , Pierre Amoyal , Igor Oistrach and Corrado Romano .

In 2000 she and her father premiered Heinz Roy , a student of Fritz Reuter, the concert for violin and orchestra in D minor on the occasion of the 11th Town Hall Concert of the Orchestra of the Sorbian National Ensemble . In the same context, they performed their grandfather's 1955 violin concerto a year later. According to the music critic Friedbert Streller, “she was fascinated by the safe and expressive design of the virtuoso demanding solo part”. On the occasion of Heinz Roy's 80th birthday (2008), the siblings Agnes, Sophia and Anna were responsible for the premiere of the concert for string trio and orchestra that their father had previously commissioned from Roy.

From 2001 to 2003 she studied in the viola master class of Alfred Lipka at the Academy of Music "Hanns Eisler" Berlin . She was employed as a temporary worker with the Berlin Philharmonic and the Deutsche Oper Berlin. In 2003/04 she was section leader of the violas with the Hamburg Philharmonic at the Hamburg State Opera . There she was also a member of the Hamburg string sextet . In 2005 she founded the Suoni d'Arte ensemble with Franz Halász , Roeland Gehlen and Débora Halász . From 2006 to 2013 she was first principal violist with the Duisburg Philharmonic at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein . In 2007 she formed the Amarte Trio in Duisburg (with Matthias Bruns and Fulbert Slenczka ). On the 60th birthday of the composer Gerhard Stäbler (2009) she made her first appearance with the string quartet of the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra (with Tonio Schibel , Martina Sebald and Anja Schröder ). In 2008 she became a member of the Bernese string ensemble Tharice Virtuosi led by Liviu Prunaru , an association of former IMMA students. As a guest solo violist she worked a. a. at the Deutsche Oper Berlin , the Konzerthausorchester Berlin , the Gewandhausorchester in Leipzig and the Orquestra Simfònica del Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. In addition, she became 1st principal violist of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Europe chamber orchestra . In 2014 she founded the Trio Lirico with her friend Franziska Pietsch and Johannes Krebs . She also works in a duo with the singer and actress Sabine Fischmann . Reuter has been a member of the Staatskapelle Berlin since 2018 .

Concert tours as a soloist and chamber musician have taken her through Europe, the USA, South America and Asia. Several CD and radio recordings (for SWR and BR) were made.

From 1996 to 2000 and from 2010 to 2012 she taught viola and chamber music at the International Menuhin Music Academy in Gstaad. In 1998/99 she taught at the "International Mozarteum Summer Academy " in Salzburg. Since 2002 she has been a regular lecturer at the District Youth Symphony Orchestra at the Bavarian Music Academy Hammelburg. She also regularly gives master classes, for example at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam .

Sophia Reuter is married to the Dutch violinist Roeland Gehlen (* 1968).

Discography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Bach competition for young people ended . In: Neues Deutschland , May 17, 1982, vol. 37, issue 114, p. 4.
  2. Dietmar Hiller : Tone beauty and virtuosity. Nine young violinists fascinated the 8th Reutersaal concert . In: Neue Zeit , May 21, 1982, vol. 38, issue 118, p. 4.
  3. ^ A b Klaus Klingbeil: Family Concert . Music series of the State Library . In: Neues Deutschland , November 28, 1984, vol. 39, edition 282, p. 6.
  4. a b c Peter Buske: Menuhin in the Komische Oper . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 16, 1992, vol. 48, issue 164, p. 17.
  5. Gerald Felber: With Mozart the final was on. Completion of the concert series in the Komische Oper . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 5, 1991, vol. 47, issue 128, p. 11.
  6. Werner Schönsee: Violinists played in a triad of generations. Yehudi Menuhin and his students concluded the European Chamber Music Days in Berlin . In: Neue Zeit , July 18, 1992, vol. 48, issue 166, p. 13.
  7. Ingeburg Kretzschmar: Masters and Patrons. Menuhin with students in the Komische Oper . In: Berliner Zeitung, July 18, 1992, vol. 48, issue 166, p. 17.
  8. Crista Vogel: Enjoyable evening in the town hall . In: Sächsische Zeitung , March 28, 2000, p. 10.
  9. ^ A b Friedbert Streller : Elements from song and dance ways . In: Sächsische Zeitung , May 3, 2001, p. 15.
  10. ^ Sylvia Ottenberg: Portrait of a Jubilee . In: Sächsische Zeitung , January 21, 2008, p. 21.
  11. Suoni d´Arte, suonidarte.de, accessed on April 6, 2020.
  12. Tobias Richter, Jochen Grote (Ed.): DOR. 50 years of music theater. German Opera on the Rhine (1956-2006) . DuMont, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-8321-7728-0 , p. 292.
  13. CK: The "Amarte Trio" - a worthy replacement . In: Rheinische Post , No.?, February 23, 2008.
  14. : Ingo Hoddick made music Gerhard Stäbler for "60th" . In: Rheinische Post , No. 243, October 19, 2009.
  15. Musicians , philharmonic-orchestra.eu, accessed on March 28, 2020.
  16. Ingo Hoddick: First performance honored our city . In: Rheinische Post , No. 51, March 2, 2010.