Jeremias Schwarzer

Jeremias Schwarzer has made a name for himself in both the early and contemporary music scenes through his enviable virtuosity and musicality. In 2008 he performed the world premiere of Salvatore Sciarrino’s 4 Adagi for recorder and orchestra with the Filarmonica della Scala under Daniel Harding at Milan’s La Scala to wide international acclaim. Since then, Jeremias Schwarzer has appeared at leading concert halls and venues around the world, including the Prinzregententheater Munich, Radialsystem V Berlin, Biennale di Venezia, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, Tokyo Opera City Hall, Harvard University, and La Monnaie Brussels, among others. As a soloist Jeremias Schwarzer has performed with the Bavarian Radio, South West German Radio and Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestras, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Bamberg Symphony, Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, and the Münchener Kammerorchester.

Numerous recordings have been released by Moeck, Genuin, Neos, Wergo, HatHut and Channel Classics, among others, most recently the album New Recorder Concertos, released in spring 2025. The musician interpreted four concertos by Samir Odeh-Tamimi, Liza Lim, Dai Fujikura and Iris ter Schiphorst, recorded live with well-known orchestras and renowned conductors: the Munich Chamber Orchestra under Alexander Liebreich, the SWR Symphony Orchestra under Rupert Huber, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra under Jonathan Stockhammer and the Ensemble Resonanz under Peter Rundel.

Jeremias Schwarzer teaches as a professor of recorder and contemporary music at the Nuremberg University of Music, where he regularly develops innovative concert programmes with students. He also teaches as part of masterclasses, lectures and residencies in Europe, the USA and Asia.

Since the 2022/23 season, Jeremias Schwarzer has been leading the TRANSIENT project in the North Eifel region, where he researches and works with an international team of artists every two years. Following a research on the topic "...alive: Nature and Music" and an academy for music students, the first part of the TRANSIENT Impulse Festival 2023 took place in Kronenburg/Eifel with an interdisciplinary installation by artist Chiharu Shiota. The second part of the festival followed in June 2023 at outdoor nature locations. Shown in July 2025, the concert installation Book of hours and landscapes with works by Helena Tulve, Georg Friedrich Haas, Kaaija Saariaho, John Cage, Malika Kishino, Georges Aperghis, Hildegard von Bingen, Giacinto Scelsi, Yoko Ono, Arne Sanders, Liza Lim and José María Sanchez Verdú, among others, deals with the cyclical relationships between space, sound and time.

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2025/2026 season

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