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Paul Crewes Rachel Fine Artistic Director Managing Director at the Freiburg Musikhochschule. He completed his studies with Prof. . PRESENTS Michael Hasel's first orchestral appointment as flutist was from 1982 to 1984 with the Frankfurt Radio , after which he became a member of the Philharmonic under Herbert von Karajan. For several years he performed as principal flute with the Orchestra WIND QUINTET under conductors such as , Pièrre Boulez and . In 1994 he was appointed Professor of Wind Ensemble and MICHAEL HASEL, FLUTE FERGUS MCWILLIAM, HORN at the Heidelberg-Mannheim Musikhochschule. ANDREAS WITTMANN, OBOE MARION REINHARD, BASSOON Both as conductor and soloist Michael Hasel has WALTER SEYFARTH, CLARINET appeared in Europe, Japan and South America with renowned ensembles such as Ensemble WITH , Modern, the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, the Chamber Orchester, Orchestra Program Simon Bolivar and the Berliner Philharmoniker. ANDREAS WITTMANN (oboe), Andreas STEPHEN HOUGH (B.1961) Wittmann, was born in Munich. He studied oboe Was mit den Tränen geschieht; Trio for flute, bassoon and piano (2008) at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich with Prof. I. Lento giusto ABOUT THE BERLIN and have intensified in recent years. Manfred Clement and later at the Hochschule der PHILHARMONIC Künste in Berlin with Hansjörg Schellenberger. II. Allegro brilliante In Munich he studied conducting with Prof. III. Andante WIND QUINTET The ensemble's commitment to the wind quintet repertoire is passionate and in 1991 they found Hermann Michael and participated in conducting masterclasses with . Wittmann (1756-1791) The Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet the perfect partner for their recording plans, the Swedish company BIS Records, already well known spent only one year as a scholarship student (Philharmonisches Bläserquintett Berlin) was founded at the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Academy Quintet in E flat major for Piano and Winds, K. 452 in 1988, during the era of , the in its own right for its uncompromising standards. I. Largo. Allegro moderato The results of this long and exclusive collaboration before being appointed to the Berlin Philharmonic first permanently established wind quintet in the itself in 1986. He is an internationally active II. Larghetto famous orchestra's rich tradition of chamber music. have received critical accolades worldwide - indeed many of these recordings are already widely held soloist, chamber musician and teacher, whose III. Allegretto career has also included performing as Principal With four original members since inception to be "definitive" or "reference" performances. Oboe with the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and 15-minute intermission (Marion Reinhard succeeded founding bassoonist the Berlin Philharmonic. He taught at the Berlin Henning Trog in 2009), they are living musical In addition to their concert appearances throughout Europe, North and South America, Israel, Australia Philharmonic Orchestra Academy for several years (1890-1962) witnesses to the hugely productive and influential before becoming its General Manager in 2013. musical partnerships of the Berlin Philharmonic and the Far East, the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Trois pièces brèves (1930) Quintet are also popular guests at international Wittmann is currently Permanent Guest Conductor not only with Karajan, but also with its two most of Brazil's Orquesta Sinfónica Salvador de Bahia. I. Allegro recent Musical Directors: and Sir festivals such as the Berliner Festwochen, the II. Andante Edinburgh Festival, the London Proms, the He regularly conducts the Sinfonie-Orchester . Naturally, as members of the Berlin Berlin, as well as the Sibelius-Orchester of Berlin. III. Assez lent – Allegro scherzando Philharmonic, they have also enjoyed important Quintette-Biennale Marseille, the Rheingau Festival and the Festival. Their television collaborations with every other major conductor WALTER SEYFARTH productions and radio broadcasts are seen and (Clarinet) is a native of (1910-1981) of their times, whether , Carlos Düsseldorf and was a first prize winner at the age Kleiber, Sir , Günter Wand, Carlo heard throughout Europe, Asia and North America. Summer music op.31 (1956) In recent years the members of the Berlin of sixteen in the Deutscher Tonkünstlerverband Maria Giulini, , , James competition. Following his studies at the Freiburg Levine or Daniel Barenboim, to name only a few. Philharmonic Wind Quintet have intensified FRANCIS POULENC (1899-1963) their teaching and coaching roles with youth; Musikhochschule with Peter Rieckhoff and with at the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Sextet for Piano and Wind Quintet The Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet continues they give chamber music workshops and instrumental instruction in many countries, Academy, he was appointed to the Saarbrücken I. Allegro vivace to astonish audiences worldwide with their range Radio Symphony Orchestra. In 1985, he joined of expression, their tonal spectrum and their with a particular commitment, for example, to II. Divertissement the youth orchestra program of Venezuela. the Berlin Philharmonic as Solo Eb-Clarinettist. III. Finale conceptual unity. Indeed many listeners and critics It was Seyfarth who was the driving force behind agree that the ensemble has succeeded in virtually MICHAEL HASEL the founding of the Berlin Philharmonic Wind redefining the sound of the classic wind quintet. (flute) Michael Hasel was born in Hofheim near Frankfurt and began Quintet in 1988. He is also a member of the larger FEBRUARY 10, 2018 Their repertoire covers not only the entire spectrum ensemble "The Winds of the Berlin Philharmonic". Bram Goldsmith Theater of the wind quintet literature but also includes conducting, piano and organ studies, intending to graduate as a church musician. His first flute Among his teaching and mentoring responsibilities works for enlarged ensemble, i.e. the Sextets of are the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Academy, Running time: 1 hour and 40 minutes, including a 15-minute intermission teachers were Herbert Grimm and Willy Schmidt Janáček and Reinicke or the Septets of Hindemith the Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra and the and Koechlin. In addition, collaboration with and he went on to study piano and conducting with The Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet appears by arrangement with David Rowe Artists (davidroweartists.com) Prof. Francis Travis and flute with Aurèle Nicolet Venezuelan Youth Programme, . The Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet (windquintet.com) records exclusively for BIS Records (bis.se) such as Lars Vogt, Stephen Hough, Jon Nakamatsu Mr. Hough is a Steinway Artist.

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P13 About the Artists @ THE WALLIS FERGUS MCWILLIAM (horn) was born on the In 2001, Mr. Hough was the first classical performing the Rachmaninoff piano was the fastest shores of Scotland's Loch Ness and studied initially artist to win a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. selling recording in Hyperion’s history, while his in Canada (John Simonelli, Frederick Rizner, and He was awarded Northwestern University’s 2008 1987 recording of the Hummel concertos remains MUSIC at the University of Toronto with Eugene Rittich), Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano, won the Royal Chandos’ best-selling disc to date. Recent releases on having made his début as a soloist with the Toronto Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist Award in 2010, the Hyperion label include a solo recording pairing Symphony under at the age of fifteen. and in January 2014 was made a Commander works by Scriabin and Janáček and a recording of Further studies were undertaken in of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). Grieg’s Lyric Pieces. His latest album features the (Adriaan van Woudenberg) and Stockholm (Wilhelm Dvořák and Schumann piano concertos with the City Lanzky-Otto). From 1972 through 1979 McWilliam Stephen Hough has appeared with most of the major of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jeremy was a member of several Canadian orchestras American and European orchestras and plays recitals . Mr. Hough is also the featured artist Denk and chamber music ensembles before joining the regularly in major halls and concert series around the in an iPad and Apple TV app about the Liszt in Detroit Symphony Orchestra. From 1982 to 1985 world. He has given recitals in such cities as Beijing, B Minor, which includes a fully filmed performance he was a member of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Berlin, Chicago, Dublin, Hong Kong, London, Milan, and commentary, released by TouchPress. and in 1985 he was appointed to the Berlin Montreal, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Stockholm, Philharmonic under Herbert von Karajan. He is not Sydney, and Tokyo. He has also appeared with the Published by Josef Weinberger, Mr. Hough has only active internationally as a soloist and chamber BBC, Czech, London, Los Angeles, , New composed over 40 works for orchestra, choir, musician but teaches at a number of internationally York, and Royal Philharmonics; the Atlanta, Baltimore, chamber ensemble and solo piano. His “Mass of renowned music schools, including the Berlin BBC, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Montreal, National, Innocence and Experience” and “Missa Mirabilis” Philharmonic Orchestra Academy. He has worked NHK, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, St. Louis, and Toronto were respectively commissioned by and performed with the Venezuelan youth music programme El ; and the Budapest Festival, Cleveland, at London’s Westminster Abbey and Westminster Sistema for a decade and now is a Board Director Minnesota, Philadelphia, Russian National, and Cathedral. In 2012, the Indianapolis Symphony of Sistema Scotland. McWilliam served on Berliner Tonhalle Zürich orchestras, among others. He is a commissioned and performed Mr. Hough’s own Philharmoniker committees for 23 years and is the regular guest at such festivals as Aldeburgh, Aspen, orchestration of “Missa Mirabilis,” which was author of the acclaimed book "Blow Your OWN Horn". Blossom, Edinburgh, , Mostly subsequently performed by the BBC Symphony as Mozart, , Ravinia, Salzburg, Tanglewood, part of Mr. Hough’s residency with the orchestra and MARION REINHARD (bassoon) was born in Verbier, and the BBC Proms, where he has made recorded for Hyperion with the Colorado Symphony. Nuremberg (Nürnberg) and from 1991 to 1995 more than 20 appearances, including Mr. Hough has also been commissioned by the studied at the Meistersinger Conservatory with performing Tchaikovsky’s complete works for piano musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic, London’s Walter Urbach and Karsten Nagel. While still and orchestra over the summer of 2009—a series he National Gallery, , Le Musée de MAR 15, 2018 only a student, she began performing with the later repeated with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Louvre and Musica Viva Australia among others Nuremberg Philharmonic Orchestra as Contra and he has performed his two piano , Nathan & Julie Gunn Bassoonist. In 1995 she won a scholarship to Highlights of Mr. Hough’s 17/18 season include “Sonata No. 1 (broken branches)” and “Sonata study at the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra re-engagements with the Detroit, Dallas, Vancouver, No. 2 (notturno luminoso)” on recital programs Academy with Stefan Schweigert and Daniele Baltimore, New Jersey and Utah symphonies and the in London, New York, St. Paul and Chicago. MAR 17, 2018 Damiano. Further studies with Georg Kluetsch in National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa; a four city Weimar rounded out her musical training and tour on the West Coast with the Berlin Philharmonic A noted writer, Mr. Hough regularly contributes wild Up: Future Folk in 1999 Marion Reinhard was appointed to the Wind Quintet; and a fourth recital at ’s articles for , The Times, The Tablet, Berlin Philharmonic where she became a direct Stern Auditorium, with additional recitals in Los Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine and wrote colleague of Henning Trog. From 1996 until her Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, Miami, at Duke a blog for The Telegraph for seven years (2008 – MAR 22, 2018 appointment to the Berlin Philharmonic Wind University and four recitals throughout the state of 2016), which became one of the most popular and Zurich Chamber Quintet, she was a founding member of the Hawaii. Internationally, he appears with the Seoul influential forums for cultural discussion and for Orsolino Wind Quintet, an ensemble which was Philharmonic and the Singapore Symphony in Asia; which he wrote over 600 articles. His book, The Bible Orchestra mentored by Michael Hasel. They won many makes his annual appearance at the BBC Proms; as Prayer, was published by Continuum and Paulist international prizes, including the Munich A.R.D. plays a Beethoven cycle with the Royal Liverpool Press in 2007. Also an avid painter, Mr. Hough with Daniel Hope Competition and also made numerous recordings. Philharmonic Orchestra; and returns in recital to gave his first exhibition in London at the Notting London’s with additional recitals Hill–based Broadbent Gallery in 2012. Entitled STEPHEN HOUGH (piano) Stephen Hough in Paris at the Louvre and in Milan and Naples. “Appassionato,” this solo show displayed nearly APR 25, 2018 is regarded as a renaissance man of his time. twenty abstract acrylic paintings dating from 2007. Jeremy Denk Over the course of his career he has distinguished Many of Mr. Hough’s catalog of over 50 albums himself as a true polymath, not only securing a have garnered international prizes including the Mr. Hough resides in London where he is a visiting reputation as a uniquely insightful concert , Deutscher Schallplattenpreis, Diapason d’Or, Monde professor at the and MAY 26, 2018 but also as a writer and . Mr. Hough is de la Musique, several Grammy nominations, and holds the International Chair of Piano Studies at commended for his mastery of the instrument eight Gramophone Magazine Awards including the his alma mater, the Royal Northern College in Crossing in Concert along with an individual and inquisitive mind which 1996 and 2003 “Record of the Year” Awards and the Manchester. He is also a member of the faculty at has earned him a multitude of prestigious awards 2008 “Gold Disc” Award, which named his complete The . To find out more about Mr. and a long-standing international following. Saint-Saëns piano concertos the best recording Hough, please visit his websitestephenhough.com of the past 30 years. His 2005 live recording of

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