Heinz Holliger
Heinz Holliger ( born May 21, 1939 in Langenthal ) is a Swiss oboist, composer and conductor.
Education and Career
After taking early oboe lessons with Emile Cassagnaud in Bern, he laid in 1953, fourteen years old, his first compositions (chamber music, songs, stage music ) before. In 1956 he began his studies at the Bern Conservatory with Emile Cassagnaud (oboe ), and Sándor Veress (composition). After two years later passed the Matura in Burgdorf, he earned a teaching diploma at the Conservatory in Bern.
In 1958 and 1959 he studied piano, first at Sava Savoff at the Bern Conservatory, then at Yvonne Lefèbre at the Paris Conservatory and took private lessons with Pierre Pierlot oboe. Between 1961 and 1963, he also studied composition with Pierre Boulez.
In 1959, he began his professional career as principal oboist of the Basel Orchestra Society ( the place he held until 1963). 1961 came the first recordings and guest appearances worldwide as a solo oboist. In 1965 he was appointed professor at the State Academy of Music in Freiburg im Breisgau. Since 1975 he has been a regular guest conductor with Paul Sacher's Basel Chamber Orchestra. From 1998 to 2001 he was also conductor of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne. As composer-in -residence, he was with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (1993 /94), at the Lucerne Festival (1998) and in the Summer Music Hitzacker days ( 2002).
In 1987 he founded together with Jürg Wyttenbach and Rudolf Kelterborn the Basel Music forum. Together with the Hungarian pianist András Schiff he called the " Ittinger Pfingstkonzerte " to life.
Heinz Holliger was known as an oboist world; Numerous works have been written for him. Holliger has also created his own compositions, of plays about orchestral, solo and chamber music works to numerous vocal compositions. One example is the acquiring on poems by Georg Trakl reference Three nocturnes for piano from the year 1961. These were published with other pieces under the general title Elis. Invited by Walter Fink, he was composer in 2007, the 17th annual Komponistenporträt the Rheingau Music Festival.
Until her death on January 21, 2014 he was married to the harpist Ursula Holliger ( born June 8, 1937). Heinz Holliger is the brother of theater director Erich Holliger ( 1936-2010 ). Many of his students are also known oboist such as Klaus Becker (winner of the ARD Music Competition in 1981, a professor at the University of Music, Drama and Media Hannover), Omar Zoboli (Professor at the Musikhochschule Basel; known interpreter of the works of Antonio Pasculli ), Thomas Indermühle, Diethelm Jonas, Hans Elhorst, Emanuel Abbühl and Jochen Müller- Brincken.