Stefan Dohr

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Stefan Dohr (born September 3, 1965 in Münster ) is a German horn player .

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Stefan Dohr studied in Essen and Cologne before he became principal horn in the Frankfurt Opera House and Museum Orchestra at the age of 19 . This was followed by engagements with the orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival , the Orchester Philharmonique de Nice and the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin . Stefan Dohr has been principal horn with the Berliner Philharmoniker since 1993 . He is also a lecturer and board member of the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic .

In addition to his work as an orchestral musician, he also makes music with numerous chamber ensembles, including the Ensemble Modern and the Ensemble Wien-Berlin, in the Albert Schweitzer Octet.

As a soloist , he worked with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim , Bernard Haitink , Christian Thielemann , Ingo Metzmacher and Daniel Harding as well as with Claudio Abbado , who also invited him to the Lucerne Festival Orchestra as solo horn player.

In addition to the classical and romantic horn concertos by Mozart , Joseph Haydn and Richard Strauss, he is also interested in the contemporary works of György Ligeti , Oliver Knussen and Volker David Kirchner . In March 2008 he premiered the Horn Concerto written for him by Herbert Willi at the Wiener Musikverein .

Another focus is chamber music, which he not only cultivates with his colleagues from the Berliner Philharmoniker in various ensembles, but also as a chamber music partner of Maurizio Pollini , Lars Vogt , Kolja Blacher , Ian Bostridge and others, as well as a member of the Vienna-Berlin ensemble, made up of soloists from the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

He is a welcome guest at various chamber music festivals, was a visiting professor at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music and works as a teacher at the Herbert von Karajan Academy as well as in international master classes .

In July 2007 “Opera” was released, a CD with operatic paraphrases that Stefan Dohr recorded with his colleagues from the Philharmonic horn group. Stefan Dohr made a recording with the horn concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as well as complements and additions to Mozart's unfinished concert KV 412/514 (386b) by Franz Xaver Süßmayr , Nino Rota and Robert D. Levin for the Camerata label. In autumn 2011 the CD "FOUR CORNERS!" Was released, which Stefan Dohr recorded with horn colleagues from the Philharmonic.

Over and over again, Stefan Dohr is able to premier horn concerts dedicated to him; by Herbert Willi (2008), Jorge E. López (2009), Johannes Wallmann (2010) and Toshio Hosokawa (2011).

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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

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personal data
SURNAME Dohr, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German horn player
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster