Westphalia Winds
The Westfälische Bläserphilharmonie Westfalen Winds is a national symphonic wind orchestra made up of around 75 amateur musicians, music students and professional musicians.
The orchestra
Westfalen Winds was founded in 1996 in the Hochsauerlandkreis and works on projects for concerts, master courses, national and international competitions and concert tours. The orchestra has been led by trumpeter Ulrich Schmidt since 2005 , previously by Franz Schulte-Huermann .
The focus of the orchestra work should be the promotion and development of symphonic wind music as an art form, in particular through the interpretation of original compositions, commissioned works or through guest performances by international soloists and conductors.
The orchestra premiered several works, including the commissioned compositions "Miroir de l'âme" and "Traummaschine" by Thiemo Kraas , the work "three, four, six and nine" by Manfred Honetschläger (with the trombone quartet of the Berliner Philharmoniker ), or the Japanese premiere of Rolf Rudin's "From the end of time - a premonition"
The orchestra also plays arrangements and transcriptions as part of thematic concerts as well as film music and program music, for example under the titles "America in the 21st Century", "Wizard and Magic" or "Magic Winds and the Harry Potter Suite".
The orchestra also held several master classes, among others under the direction of Maurice Hamers (wind orchestra conducting , 2007) from the Leopold Mozart Center in Augsburg, Fried Dobbelstein (wind orchestra conducting, 2011 and 2014) from the ArtEZ Conservatory in Enschede and Nobuya Sugawa (saxophone, 2012 ) from Tokyo University of Arts and the Trouvère Quartet in cooperation with Yamaha Europe and the Cologne University of Music and Dance .
Partnerships
In 2014 the orchestra entered into a partnership with the Koninklijke Harmonie Orpheus Tilburg under the direction of the conductor and composer Hardy Mertens , and in 2015 with the Omiya Wind Symphony under the direction of Toshio Akiyama .
Competitions
The orchestra has taken part in the following international competitions:
- 1997: 3rd regional music festival of the Volksmusikerbund NRW, May 1997, highest level, with outstanding success
- 2001: Federal Music Festival Friedrichshafen , highest level, rating: Excellent
- 2002: 2nd competition for selected orchestras of the working group of folk music associations in Bruchsal, with outstanding success
- 2010: Flicorno d'Oro; Riva del Garda (Italy), category Eccellenza; 90.13 points (out of 100 points), rating: excellent
- 2013: World Music Contest ( Wereld Muziek Concours ); Kerkrade (Netherlands), 1st Division (harmony orchestra); 84.00 points (out of 100 points)
Guests
The following soloists and conductors performed with Westfalen Winds:
- Trombone Quartet of the Berliner Philharmoniker ( Olaf Ott , Christhard Gössling , Thomas Leyendecker and Jesper Busk Sørensen )
- Stefan Dohr (principal horn of the Berliner Philharmoniker )
- Walter Ratzek (Director of the Band of the Bundeswehr ret., Head of the Military Band of the Bundeswehr in Berlin, conductor of the German Wind Ensemble )
- Pierre Kuijpers (chief conductor Koninklijke Militaire Kapel a. D.)
- Maurice Hamers (Professor of Wind Orchestra Conducting at the Leopold Mozart Center in Augsburg)
- Christian Lindberg (trombone soloist, chief conductor of the Nordic Chamber Orchestra and the Swedish Wind Ensemble, composer)
- Falk Maertens (principal trumpeter of the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin )
- Fried Dobbelstein (lecturer for wind orchestra conducting at ArtEZ Conservatorium Enschede, Netherlands)
Concert tours
The orchestra undertook concert tours in Italy (2010), the Netherlands (2013), Japan (2015, funded by the Goethe Institute and the Foreign Office) and Spain (2017).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Orchestra information ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2010 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. Orchestra website, accessed June 13, 2017.
- ↑ Kulturweb Archive March - April. Retrieved June 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Holding up a mirror to conductors. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 7, 2017 ; accessed on June 13, 2017 . 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.
- ↑ DVO Druck und Verlag Obermayer GmbH: Saxophone master class with Nobuya Sugawa: blasmusik.de. Retrieved June 13, 2017 .
- ↑ WochenPost. Retrieved June 14, 2017 .
- ↑ List of results from Flicorno D'oro 2010 ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 47 kB)
- ^ DVO printing and publishing company Obermayer GmbH: Message: blasmusik.de. Retrieved June 13, 2017 .
- ↑ お お み や 市民 吹奏 楽 団 Omiya Wind Symphony. Retrieved June 13, 2017 .
- ^ Gran concierto de la Westphalia Winds de Alemania at the 15th Festival de Bandas | TORREGUIA.es »Guía de Torrevieja. Retrieved September 6, 2017 (European Spanish).
- ^ Excelente concierto de la “Westphalia Winds” de Alemania, en la segunda velada del Festival de Bandas. In: Objetivo Torrevieja. August 24, 2017. Retrieved September 6, 2017 .
