Karl Leister

Karl Leister ( born June 15, 1937 in Wilhelmshaven ) is a German clarinetist.

Life

The first clarinet lessons Karl Leister received from his father, who was a member of the Rias - Symphonie-Orchester Berlin as a clarinetist. From 1953 to 1956 he studied with Heinrich Geuser at the Academy of Music in Berlin and in 1957 was principal clarinetist at the Komische Oper Berlin under Václav Neumann. In 1959 he was solo clarinetist with the Berlin Philharmonic under Herbert von Karajan. At the same time he began his international career as a soloist under the direction of Karl Böhm, Seiji Ozawa, Eugen Jochum, Rafael Kubelik, Aaron Copland, Neville Marriner, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and Herbert von Karajan. As a chamber musician he has worked with Wilhelm Kempff, Pierre Fournier, Gidon Kremer, Rita Streich, Kathleen Battle, the Amadeus Quartet, the Leipziger String Quartet, Artis Quartet and the Vogler Quartet and the pianist James Levine, Riccardo Muti, Gerhard Oppitz, Christoph Eschenbach, Elena Bashkirova her somewhat and Paul Gulda. In 1993 he left the Berlin Philharmonic.

Since 1972, Karl Leister teaches at the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic and organizes international master classes. One of his students was the Finnish conductor Osmo Vänskä. From 1993 to 2002 Karl Leister was a professor at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik " Hanns Eisler".