Ulf Hoelscher

Ulf Hoelscher ( born January 17, 1942 in Kitzingen ( Lower Franconia ) ) is a German violinist and professor of music education.

Training

Ulf Hoelscher father was a violinist and music teacher Ferdinand Hoelscher, mother Betty classically trained singer. His younger brother Uwe Hoelscher was known by the stage name Uwe -Martin Haiberg as first violinist of the Brahms Quartet Hamburg and a professor at the Berlin University. His sister Gunhild Hoelscher works as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher in Berlin.

The first violin lessons Hoelscher received by his father, a music teacher at Prince Elector Ruprecht - Gymnasium in Neustadt on the Wine Route was.

The further training during school hours was performed at Bruno Masurat ( Musikhochschule Heidelberg). With 16 years Hoelscher took up studies at the Musikhochschule in Cologne with Max Rostal, from which he graduated with the diploma. Three years additional studies in the USA with Josef Gingold (Indiana University, Bloomington ) and Ivan Galamian (Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia ) completed the training.

Profession

Since the 1970s, Hoelscher is one of the internationally recognized violin soloists and chamber musicians.

He has performed with many major orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London and the Staatskapelle Dresden, and played under renowned conductors, such as Marek Janowski, Kurt Masur, Václav Neumann, Esa -Pekka Salonen, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Leonard Slatkin, Horst Stein, Jeffrey Tate, Klaus Tennstedt, Hans Vonk, Bruno Weil, Hiroshi Wakasugi and David Zinman.

Hoelscher repertoire contains not only the famous violin works of the Classical and Romantic numerous compositions, which he has brought from oblivion, the violin concertos by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Camille Saint -Saens, Robert Schumann, Richard Strauss, Othmar Schoeck, Louis Spohr, Ermanno Wolf- Ferrari, Siegfried Wagner and Benjamin Frankel.

Worth he also went up to the premieres of violin concertos by Ole Schmidt (1972 in Dortmund, Germany and Copenhagen) and Bülent Tarcan (1973 in Istanbul), by Volker David Kirchner with the Berlin Philharmonic (1984 ), by Franz Hummel (1988 in Saint-Petersburg) and the double concerto for violin and cello by Aribert Reimann with Wolfgang Boettcher (1989 in Hannover, followed by performances in Toulouse, Zurich, New York and Berlin). In 1972 he was the soloist at the German premiere of the 2nd Violin Concerto by Hans Werner Henze in Berlin.

Hoelscher is also committed to chamber music and was a partner of Mstislav Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya in a recording of Shostakovich 's works.

For EMI he played with pianist Michel Béroff the sonatas of Robert Schumann, César Franck, Richard Strauss and Karol Szymanowski, with Karl Engel the complete works of Franz Schubert for piano and violin ( re-release 2003) a. Benedict Koehlen was a partner in a recording of the Violin Sonatas of Paul Hindemith for cpo. This also works for violin and piano by Wolfgang Rihm, the Hoelscher has recorded with pianist Siegfried Mauser published.

With Heinrich Schiff and Christian Zacharias Hoelscher made ​​temporarily a successful trio - documented in a recording of the Brahms Trio in B Major and Tripelkonzertes of Beethoven.

He has performed in major chamber music instrumentation with Ulf Hoelscher the ensemble with a first authorized performance and recording of the Octet by Max Bruch was much talked about. With the Camerata Diana, a chamber orchestra, which he also founded, he played in a production of SWR television for the Mozart Year 2006 Mozart violin concertos and a single records for violin and orchestra. From 1981 to 2010 he was professor of violin at the University of Music in Karlsruhe. In addition, Hoelscher gives master classes, including during the International Summer Academy Mozarteum University in Salzburg and at the International Summer Academy Cervo ( Italian Riviera ).

Repertoire

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Béla Bartók
  • Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Benjamin Britten
  • Max Bruch
  • Ferruccio Busoni
  • Aram Khachaturian
  • Antonín Dvořák
  • Benjamin Frankel
  • Phil Glass
  • Alexander Glazunov
  • Joseph Haydn
  • Hans Werner Henze
  • Paul Hindemith
  • Franz Hummel
  • Joseph Joachim
  • Volker David Kirchner
  • Karl Klingler
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold
  • Witold Lutosławski
  • Frank Martin
  • Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Carl Nielsen
  • Niccolò Paganini
  • Hans Pfitzner
  • Sergei Prokofiev
  • Aribert Reimann
  • Camille Saint- Saëns
  • Othmar Schoeck
  • Dmitri Shostakovich
  • Franz Schubert
  • Robert Schumann
  • Mátyás Seiber
  • Louis Spohr
  • Igor Stravinsky
  • Bülent Tarcan
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Siegfried Wagner
  • Kurt Weill

Discography

  • EMI CDZ 25 3060 2
  • EMI Classics 747 427 2
  • RCA Classics 74321 29243 2

Schoenberg, Webern & Berg, Violin Concerto. Ulf Hoelscher; Liana Isakadze / Hiroshi Wakasugi, Georgian State Chamber Orchestra, Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra:

  • EMI Classics 5 73249 2

Brahms & Mendelssohn Violin Concertos. Ulf Hoelscher, Yehudi Menuhin; Klaus Tenstedt / Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Symphony Orchestra of the Norddeutscher Rundfunk, the London Symphony Orchestra:

  • Capriccio 10 496
  • EMI Classics 5 73251 2
  • CPO 99451-2

Max Bruch. Ensemble Ulf Hoelscher ( Ulf Hoelscher, violin; Nachum Erlich, violin; Karl -Heinz Schultz, violin; Ingo de Haas, violin; Jörg- Wolfgang Jahn, viola; Madeline Prager, Viola; Christian Euler, Viola, Martin Ostertag, violoncello; Wolfgang Güttler, bass, Ian Fountain, piano):

  • CPO 999422-2

Benjamin Frankel, violin concerto. Ulf Hoelscher (violin), Brett Dean (viola), Stephen Emmerson (piano ), David Lale (cello), Alan Smith ( violin); Werner Andreas Albert, Queensland Symphony Orchestra:

Awards

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