MAURICE STEGER Flutist, Conductor & Lecturer

He has been celebrated as the "the Paganini of the dedicates himself to a continuously­ updated reper- recorder" by music critics and been succinctly de- toire of Early music. He also performs with artist scribed as "the world’s leading recorder virtuoso" colleagues such as , Andreas Scholl, (the Independent) – today Maurice Steger is one Pablo Heras-Casado, , Nuria of the most fascinating recorder players, conductors­ Rial, Bernard Labadie, , and musical professors working in the sphere of and . Along with early music, Maurice Early music. In these different capacities, he thrills Steger also engages with new concert formats and ­audiences around the world with a variety of concert contemporary compositions. formats. Tours of Asia and Australia have led to performan- Maurice Steger is an incredibly charismatic ces with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, the ­musician: spontaneous, captivating and full of ener- Malaysia Philharmonic Orchestra, the Taipei Sym- gy. With his vibrant manner, intense and full instru- phony among others. He was the first recorder play- mental sound and amazing technique, this "recorder er from the West to perform with the Traditional wizard" has managed to bring to prominence the re- Taipei Chinese Orchestra. He also regularly per- corder as an instrument in all its fascinating forms. forms in North and South America. The 2015 ECHO Classic Award which he received as "Instrumentalist­ of the Year" is testimony to his His commitment to musical education is also ex- success.­ tremely important to him: in order to encourage young children to playfully engage with classical In his concerts, Maurice Steger takes listeners on music, he invented the character of "Tino Flautino", a spellbinding musical journey, with every piece of and has performed hundreds of children's concerts music offering something to discover. As a soloist, in this role. For his latest musical fairytale, he in- conductor or both at once, he regularly performs vented "Pinocchio and the recorder player". Maurice with the top period instrument ensembles, such as Steger also gives various master classes each year, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, the ­Venice and in 2013 took over the directorship of the Gstaad Baroque Orchestra, , La Cetra, ­Baroque Academy at the Menuhin Festival Gstaad. the Lautten Compagney and I Barocchisti.­ He also performs with leading modern orchestras such as the 'Mr. Corelli in London', 'Una Follia di ­Napoli', 'Vivaldi:­ , the hr-Sinfonieorches- Concerti per flauto' and 'Telemann: Recorder­ Works' ter Frankfurt, the Musikkollegium Winterthur, the with The English Concert, I ­Barocchisti and the Aka- Berlin Baroque Soloists (Berlin Philharmonic), the demie für Alte Musik Berlin:­ numerous award-win- Canadian Violons du Roy, the Chamber Orchestra ning CD recordings ­published by harmonia­ mundi, Basel or the NDR Radiophilharmonie. most of them with highly imaginative­ thematic con- cepts, are a long-standing testament to the unique Chamber music plays a notable role in the rich- prominence achieved by this artist. ly varied spectrum of Maurice Steger's artistic ­endeavours. With fellow musicians and friends The current music project "Souvenirs d'Italie" with such as Hille Perl, Marco Postinghel, Xenia Löff- exciting new discoveries from the Naples of the ler, Daniele Caminiti, Naoki Kitaya, M­ ­auro ­Valli, ­early 18th century has already won many of the most ­Sebastian Wienand and Fiorenza de Donatis, he ­important international record awards.

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