Wilfried Berk

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Wilfried Karl Berk (* 1940 in Ipanema , Rio de Janeiro , Brazil ) is a German-Brazilian clarinet soloist specializing in classical and choro music from Brazil.

Life

Berk was born in Ipanema, a district of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, as the son of German immigrants, and grew up there. He is a graduate of the music academies in Rio and Berlin. In 1967 Berk moved to Germany as a DAAD scholarship holder (studied in Berlin) and has lived in Hanover since the early 1970s. He works as a lecturer, composer, arranger and editor of music and as a freelance music editor .

Berk is the winner of several competitions in Brazil and a founding member of the Quinteto Villa-Lobos (Caravana da Cultura and South America tour 1964). 1964–1967 he taught clarinet at the Universidade Federal da Bahia in Salvador, previously as a member of the orchestra in Rio. From Bahia it went to Berlin, Stuttgart and Marl ( Philharmonia Hungarica ). Berk took part in international master classes with Jost Michaels , Walter Boeykens and John McCaw. This was followed by solo appearances with the Orq symphony orchestras. Sinf. Brasileira / Rio, the University of Bahia, the Sinfônica de Porto Alegre, Bad Reichenhall with the conductors Eleazar de Carvalho , Alceo Bocchino, Isaac Karabtchewsky, Edoardo de Guarnieri, Vicente Fittipaldi, Victor Tevah, Sergio Magnani, Jayoleno dos Santos and Nelson Nilo Hack.

With his wife, the pianist Elisabeth Berk-Seiz, he founded a. a. the “Duo Berk-Seiz” and the “Clarion Ensemble” (wind quintet with piano) - in the program the sextet (Sextuor) by Francis Poulenc , as well as the wind quartet (Quatuor) by Heitor Villa-Lobos ; both works were premiered in Germany in 1982 in Hanover. In October 2002, the duo toured Brazil and recorded a CD with the Quarteto de Brasília with works by Sir Arthur Bliss and Michail Glinka . Berk first performed Arthur Bliss' quintet for clarinet and string quartet in 1977 with the Pandula Quartet in Germany (Leinfelden near Stuttgart).

Discography

  • Brazilian Classics - Música Brasileira: Heitor Villa-Lobos and Choro-Highlights with the Canto do Rio group
  • Clarinet songs with British-American works for soprano, clarinet and piano
  • Coisas da Vida (Things in Life), Label Karmim / Belo Horizonte, 2005.

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personal data
SURNAME Berk, Wilfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berk, Wilfried Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Brazilian clarinetist
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Ipanema , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil