Sabine Meyer (born March 30, 1959, in Crailsheim, Germany) is a German classical clarinetist. Events 240 BC - 1st recorded Perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Crailsheim is a town in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, 32 km east of Schwäbisch Hall, 40km southwest of Ansbach in the Schwäbisch Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Classical music is a broad term that usually refers to mainstream music produced in or rooted in the traditions of Western liturgical and Secular music The clarinet is a Musical instrument in the Woodwind family The name derives from adding the suffix -et meaning little to the Italian word
Meyer began playing the clarinet at an early age. Her first teacher was her father, also a clarinetist. She studied with Otto Hermann in Stuttgart and then with Hans Deinzer at the Hochschule fuer Musik und Theater Hannover along with her brother, clarinetist Wolfgang Meyer, and now-husband, clarinetist Reiner Wehle, who played later in the Munich Philharmonic. Hans Deinzer ( 14 January 1934, Nuremberg, Germany) is a clarinetist and clarinet teacher She began her career as a member of the Bayerische Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic, where she caused an uproar as the first ever female member, having won a blind audition twice. The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra ( Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks) is the internationally renowned Orchestra of the Bayerischer Rundfunk The Berlin Philharmonic (in German: Die Berliner Philharmoniker) is an Orchestra based in Berlin, Germany. Herbert von Karajan, the General Music Director and "conductor for life," hired her in September 1982; but the players voted her out by a vote of 73 to 4. WikipediaWikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes --> Herbert von Karajan ( April 5 The orchestra insisted that the reason was her "tone," but most observers - including Karajan - believed it was because of her gender. The fracas led to Karajan's devoting more and more of his time to the (then equally all-male) Vienna Philharmonic. The Vienna Philharmonic (in German: die Wiener Philharmoniker) is an Orchestra in Austria, regularly considered one of the finest in the According to William Osborne, "Meyer suffered extreme harassment, such as seating herself at rehearsals only to have the men slide their chairs away from her. . . . " (http://iawm.org/articles_html/osborne_women_in_intl_orch.html). In 1983, after nine months, Meyer left the orchestra to become a full-time solo clarinetist.
Orchestras with which she has performed include the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra ( CSO) is an American orchestra based in Chicago Illinois. The San Francisco Symphony ( SFS) is a leading Orchestra based in San Francisco California. The London Philharmonic Orchestra ( LPO) based in London, is one of the major Orchestras of the United Kingdom, and is based in the Royal The in Tokyo, Japan began as the New Symphony Orchestra on October 5, 1926 and was the country's first professional Symphony orchestra The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra ( MSO) is an Orchestra based in Melbourne, Australia The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (Orchestra of French-speaking Switzerland OSR) was founded in 1918 by Ernest Ansermet. The Toronto Symphony Orchestra is a Canadian Orchestra. 400000 people attend its live performances each year and it is often broadcast over CBC Radio 2 The Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra was formed in 1882 and is Russia 's oldest symphony orchestra. The Vienna Philharmonic (in German: die Wiener Philharmoniker) is an Orchestra in Austria, regularly considered one of the finest in the The Berlin Philharmonic (in German: Die Berliner Philharmoniker) is an Orchestra based in Berlin, Germany. In addition, she performs regularly with the Radio Symphony Orchestras in Vienna, Basel, Warsaw, Prague, Turin, Budapest, Brussels and Copenhagen and with major orchestras in Spain, Italy, Holland, Japan and Switzerland.
In addition to her work as a soloist, Sabine Meyer is a committed player of chamber music and plays all styles of classical music. Chamber music is a form of Classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber Unlike many other stars of classical music, she finds great value in continued long-term collaboration with other musicians. She is a member of the Trio di Clarone along with her brother and husband who have recorded many CDs. In late 2006 she undertook a short tour with the Mozart Clarinet Concerto. A particularly notable performance in this tour was at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra on 5 December. The Bridgewater Hall is an international Concert venue in Manchester, England. She is probably best known for her Mozart performances.
By the 1990s she had become one of the most notable solo clarinetists, and has released many recordings since then. She records exclusively with the EMI label and can often be heard on classical radio stations. The EMI Group is a British music company comprising the major record company EMI Music – which operates several labels and is based in Kensington in
She and her husband have two children, Simon and Alma, and share a professorship at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and live in Lübeck. The Musikhochschule Lübeck in Lübeck, Germany, is the only College or university school of music in the northern most state Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the 16 ''Bundesländer'' in Germany. The former English name was Sleswick-Holsatia the Danish name is Lübeck ( is the second largest City in Schleswig-Holstein, in Northern Germany, and one of the major Her hobbies are cooking, reading and horse-riding. Other "members of the family" include Oskar the German shepherd cross, four horses (Sabine Meyer breeds horses) and several cats.
Recent CD releases include a disc of French music for Clarinet and Piano with Oleg Maisenberg, entitled "French Recital".
A CD of clarinet concertos by Ludwig Spohr and Franz Krommer was released on 2nd July 2007. For this, she collaborated with her student Julian Bliss.
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