Jeremias Schwarzer

Jeremias Schwarzer has made a name for himself on both the early and contemporary music scenes through his enviable virtuosity and musicality. His dedication to the expansion of recorder playing techniques has also put him in high demand as a specialist of new and quite literally unheard repertoire.

He has worked on over 80 world premieres to date with some of the most interesting composers of our time, including Rolf Riehm, Annette Schlünz, Salvatore Sciarrino, Misato Mochizuki and Samir Odeh-Tamimi. As a soloist Jeremias Schwarzer has performed with the Bavarian Radio, South West German Radio and Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestras, Bamberg Symphony, Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and Münchener Kammerorchester, among others, under conductors such as Carl St. Clair, Lothar Zagrosek, Jonathan Stockhammer, Alexander Liebreich, Peter Rundel and Beat Furrer. 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 garnered great international recognition in 2008. Since then he has appeared as a soloist at the world’s leading concert venues such as the Prinzregententheater Munich, Radialsystem V Berlin, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, Tokyo Opera City Hall, Harvard University and La Monnaie Brussels.

Jeremias Schwarzer regularly appears at international festivals and in concert series that include the Donaueschinger Musiktage, ISCM World Music Days, Belgrade Flute Festival, KlaraFestival Brussels and musica viva in Munich. Beyond his virtuosic performances on the recorder, he is also sought-after for his conceptual work creating musical "settings" and exploring unique concert formats to facilitate a new sensual awareness for listeners and artists alike. In 2012 he curated the programme changeXchange with works by John Cage for the Künstlerhaus in Nuremberg, on which amateur and professional musicians collaborated. Jeremias Schwarzer is Professor for recorder and current music at the Nuremberg University of Music, and also gives master courses, lectures and holds residencies at the universities in Vienna, Huddersfield, Freiburg, Belgrade, New York, Harvard, at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music, Mozarteum Salzburg and Irino Foundation in Tokyo. He has recorded numerous CDs that have been released on the labels Neos, wergo, HatHut and Channel Classics.

The 2015/16 season holds several important world premieres in store for Jeremias Schwarzer: his new project ALIF::split in the wall (music by Stefan Goldmann and Samir Odeh-Tamimi, instalation by Chiharu Shiota) will be realised by the Berlin-based Zafraan Ensemble together with the German Federal Cultural Foundation and several European partners. Furthermore, Jeremias Schwarzer will premiere two new recorder concertos in June 2016 composed for him by José Maria Sanchez Verdú (with the Dresden Philharmonic) and Toshio Hosokawa (with the Ensemble Resonanz). He will be one of the two main protagonists in Swiss composer Wolfgang Heiniger’s new music theatre work (premiere in March 2016). Further world premieres will include works by Malika Kishino (Duo for recorder and percussion with Isao Nakamura) and Volker Blumenthaler. The season will conclude in July 2016 in Feldkirch with the Austrian premiere of Sounds and Clouds, a project conceptualised by Jeremias Schwarzer and the concert designer Folkert Uhde, with music by Antonio Vivaldi and Toshio Hosokawa and the ensemble Holland Baroque. The CD which accompanies this project was released in October 2015 on Channel Classics and was enthusiastically received by the international press.

2015/16 season

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