Hansjörg Schellenberger
Hansjörg Schellenberger ( born February 13, 1948 in Munich) is a German oboist and conductor.
Life
Schellenberger grew in hall on the Danube near Regensburg in 1967 and completed his high school education. At the age of 6 years he played the recorder, with 13 he took oboe lessons. From 1967 he studied at the Munich Academy of Music Oboe and conducting and mathematics and computer science at the Technical University Munich.
Schellenberger is a cofounder of the music of our time series, making an intensive use of newer music was founded, continues to this day. After graduating in 1970 Schellenberger was from September 1971 assistant principal oboist of the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, from 1975, he was principal oboe. From September 1977 regular guest with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Herbert von Karajan. From September 1980 there solo oboist. For many years he was also active in the management of the Berlin Philharmonic.
Schellenberger made teaching at the University of Arts in Berlin from 1981 to 1991 In addition, since the occupation increasingly active as a chamber musician and soloist. Member of the winds of the Berlin Philharmonic, the Ensemble Wien-Berlin, as well as founder and director of the Haydn - Ensemble Berlin.
He maintains a long-standing duo partnership with pianist Rolf Koenen, the flutist Wolfgang Schulz, and harpist Margit - Anna Suss and many other musicians.
As a soloist appearances with many orchestras and conductors, including Herbert von Karajan, Claudio Abbado, Carlo Maria Giulini, Riccardo Muti, James Levine, among others. Since 1989, regular master classes at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena. Since 1986, regular master classes at the Scuola di Musica of Fiesole. Since 2001 professor at the Royal School of Music in Madrid, Spain ( La Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia) and Head of Woodwind Studies at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Vinyl recordings on Denon, DGG, Orfeo, Sony Classical, EMI among others
The mid-nineties he founded his own label Campanella Musica. Already one of the first CDs Bach Sonatas won the German Record Prize.
Since his exit with the Berlin Philharmonic in 2001, Schellenberger increasingly focused on the activity of conducting. He has conducted, among others at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Orchestra of Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo and many others.
Every year in September master classes in his home property, rank i Ch instead.
Schellenberger now lives in Bavaria.