Werner Herbers

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Werner Herbers (born August 11, 1940 in Bilthoven ) is a Dutch oboist and conductor .

Act

Herbers, the son of the educator and pacifist Hein Herbers, who emigrated from Germany , and Lisa Herbers, studied oboe (with Jaap and Haakon Stotijn ), piano and conducting at the Muzieklyceum Amsterdam between 1960 and 1965 .

Herbers was the first oboist in various radio orchestras in the Netherlands, with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and from 1970 to 2005 in the Concertgebouworkest . As a soloist he played under the direction of Luciano Berio , Riccardo Chailly , Nicolaus Harnoncourt , Hans Vonk , Ferdinand Leitner , Bernard Haitink , Edo de Waart and Willem van Otterloo, among others .

Between 1962 and 1988 Herbers was a member and co-director of the Nederlands Blazers Ensemble , with which he toured the world several times. After its dissolution, he founded the Ebony Band in 1990 , which recruited its interpreters mainly from the Concertgebouw Orchestra and made it its main task to perform the works of composers who were victims of the National Socialist tyranny or the Second World War. The works of jazz composers such as Robert Graettinger , John Carisi and George Handy were also heard again in the concert hall thanks to the Ebony Band. Herbers also performed with David Kweksilber's big band .

Herbers has also conducted Ensemble recherche and Ensemble Oriol in Germany, the Capriccio Players in New York as well as the Metropole Orkest , the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra , the Limburgs Symfonieorkest , the Brabants Orkest , the Dutch Chamber Orchestra and the Stan Kenton Alumni Band in Los Angeles.

After his first marriage to the violinist Vera Beths , from which the actress Katja Herbers emerged , Werner Herbers married the costume designer Leonie Polak.

Prizes and awards

Herbers received the Haarlemse Hogenbijl Prijs in 1997 for his services as a musician and musicologist. Recordings by the Ebony Band were awarded the Edison and the Diapason d'Or .

Discographic notes

  • Pete Rugolo , Franklyn Marks , Robert Graettinger / Ebony Band: City of Glass (Channel Crossings 1994)
  • Robert F. Graettinger / Ebony Big Band, Werner Herbers, Claron McFadden : Live at the Paradiso (Channel Crossings 1998)
  • Nedly Elstak / Paradise Regained Orchestra: Nedly Elstak's Paradise Lost and Regained Suite (BVHaast 1995)
  • Stefan Wolpe / Werner Herbers, Cappella Amsterdam, Ebony Band: Zeus and Elida Beautiful Stories (Decca 2000)
  • Silvestre Revueltas / Ebony Band, Werner Herbers, Juan Carlos Tajes: Homenaje a Revueltas (Channel Classics 2004)
  • Weill , Toch , Schulhoff / Ebony Band, Werner Hebers Kleine Dreigroschenmusik ... (Channel Classics 2009)
  • Ebony Band, Barbara Hannigan - Koffler & Regamey : Polskie Arcydzieła = Polish Masterpieces (Channel Crossings 2010)
  • Dancing - The Jazzfever of Milhaud , Martinu , Seiber , Burian , Wolpe (Channel Crossings 2011)
  • Around Prague 1922-1937 (Channel Classics 2013)
  • Hanns Eisler : Californian Ballad (Berlin Classics 2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief portrait (Concertgebouworkest)
  2. ↑ Katja Herbers imdb.com
  3. ↑ Meeting (Rondo)
  4. ↑ meeting (musicweb-international)
personal data
SURNAME Herbers, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch oboist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Bilthoven