MAURICE STEGER Flutist, Conductor & Lecturer He is hailed as "the Paganini of the recorder" and Tours of Asia and Australia have led to performan- "the world’s leading recorder player" – today Maurice ces with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Steger is one of the most fascinating recorder play- and the Malaysia Philharmonic Orchestra, among ers, conductors and music teachers working in the others. He was the first recorder player from the sphere of early music. In these different capacities, West to perform with the traditional Taipei Chinese he thrills audiences around the world with a variety Orchestra. He also regularly performs in North and of concert formats. South America. Maurice Steger is an incredibly charismatic musician: His commitment to musical education is also spontaneous, captivating and full of energy. With extremely important to him: in order to encourage his vibrant manner, intense tonality and amazing young children to playfully engage with classical technique, this "recorder wizard" has managed to music, he invented the character of "Tino Flautino", bring to prominence the recorder as an instrument and has performed hundreds of children's concerts in all its fascinating forms. The 2015 ECHO Klassic in this role. For his latest musical fairytale, he in- Award which he is to receive as "Instrumentalist of vented "Pinocchio and the recorder player". Maurice the Year" is testimony to his success. Steger also gives various master classes each year, and in 2013 took over the directorship of the Gstaad In his concerts, Maurice Steger takes listeners on a Baroque Academy. spellbinding musical journey, with every piece of mu- sic offering something to discover. As a soloist, con- 'Mr. Corelli in London', 'Una Follia di Napoli', ductor or both at once, he regularly performs with 'Vivaldi: Concerti per flauto' and 'Telemann: Block- the top period instrument ensembles, such as the flötenwerke' with The English Concert, I Baroc- Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (Berlin Academy chisti and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin: for Early Music), the Venice Baroque Orchestra, the numerous award-winning CD recordings published English Concert and I Barocchisti. He also performs by harmonia mundi, many of them with highly with leading modern orchestras such as the Zu- imaginative thematic concepts, are a long-standing rich Chamber Orchestra, the hr-Sinfonieorchester testament to the unique prominence achieved by Frankfurt, the Musikkollegium Winterthur, the this artist. Berliner Barock Solisten or Berlin Baroque Soloists (Berlin Philharmonic), the Canadian Violons du Roy and the NDR Radiophilharmonie. Chamber music plays a notable role in the richly va- ried spectrum of Maurice Steger's artistic endeavours. With fellow musicians and friends such as Hille Perl, Lee Santana, Naoki Kitaya, Mauro Valli, Se- bastian Wienand and Fiorenza de Donatis, he dedi- cates himself to a continuously updated repertoire of early music. He also performs with artist colleagues such as Cecilia Bartoli, Andreas Scholl, Nuria Rial, Bernard Labadie, Sandrine Piau, Diego Fasolis and Sol Gabetta. Along with early music, Maurice Steger also engages with new concert formats and contem- porary compositions. Vers. 09.2015 www.mauricesteger.com | www.vivaldi2014.com | www.tinoflautino.ch | www.harmoniamundi.com | www.ks-schoerke.de.