Scenes From Childhood
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| free admission with Humboldt Forum Ticket / Berlin Global Ticket (Weltstudio) |
| You will need a Humboldt Forum Ticket, which also allows you to visit all the exhibitions in the museum before and after. Free admission for children and young people up to the age of 19, standard discounts apply. Tickets are available online or at the ticket counter in the foyer. |
| For people of all ages |
| English, German |
| Workshops, First Floor |
| Part of: Micro Concerts of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin |
Workshops, 1st floor:
Robert Schumann: Scenes From Childhood, op. 15, arranged for wind quintet
Weltstudio, 1st floor:
Ilse Fromm Michals: “Four Puppets for wind quintet”, Op. 4
Cécile Chaminade: Three Miniatures for wind quintet
It can be an extremely “important event” when the “Knight of the Hobby Horse” tells the “Begging Child” a “Curious Story” “Of Foreign Lands and People” in the wide-open cultural space of the Humboldt Forum. The RSB wind quintet “QuintFunk” draws “Glückes genug” (Enough Happiness) from Robert Schumann’s well-known piano cycle “Scenes From Childhood”, specially arranged for five wind instruments. The quintet invites listeners to reflect on the famous “Träumerei” (Dreaming) in their own personal way.
Ilse Fromm-Michaels breathed musical life into “Vier Puppen” (Four Dolls) in 1908 – with harmonic surprises and whimsical humor no less than Schumann’s. The German composer is currently being rediscovered, as is her French colleague Cécile Chaminade, who was a generation older. A widely traveled piano virtuoso during her lifetime, Chaminade’s works are characterized by enthusiastic melodic inventions. She confidently says of herself that a melody that made her cry while composing it is also capable of making others cry. Or experience pure joy!
The concerts take place in the workshops and the Weltstudio on the first floor, areas that are dedicated to groups, families, and children. Everyone is welcome at these short, moderated, relaxed concerts.
Participants
Play – communicate – inspire. Rudolf Döbler pursues these goals as a musician, lecturer, presenter and music educator.
Rudolf Döbler was born in Achern (Ortenau) in 1966. He studied with William Bennett and John Wright at the music academies in Freiburg and Karlsruhe. He also attended master classes with Alain Marion, Michel Debost, James Galway, André Jaunet, Geoffrey Gilbert and Robert Dick. His first engagements took him to the philharmonic orchestras in Dessau and Hagen as principal flute.
Since 1993 he has been deputy principal flute with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB). Parallel to his orchestral activities, he was a member of the ensemble musikFabrik NRW, one of the leading German ensembles for contemporary music, from 1995 to 1997. He is a member of the “14 Berliner Flötisten” and the ensemble 7211.
Together with the Dutch flautist Robert Pot, Rudolf Döbler has been teaching advanced amateurs and professionals in master classes since 2002. He has been artistic director of the QUERWIND Flute Days Staufen since 2009.
Rudolf Döbler has been passionate about inspiring people for music ever since he has been on stage. His carefully chosen presentations of his own chamber concerts, his experience as a children’s concert presenter and his commitment as a school representative of the RSB are evidence of this. Since 2005, he has been coordinating, organizing and designing workshops and rehearsal visits for Berlin schools and kindergartens.
Christoph Korn began playing the recorder at the age of four, then switched to the clarinet at the age of ten and took lessons at the Chemnitz Music School. At the age of 13, he attended the Robert Schumann Conservatory in Zwickau and then went on to study at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden.
Christoph Korn has played in various orchestras since 1999, including as a substitute in the Dresden Philharmonic. In addition to the clarinet, he increasingly focused on the bass clarinet and began his career as a professional musician with this instrument. He passed the audition for the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra on his first attempt and became its new principal bass clarinettist in 2002.
Christoph Korn is involved in various chamber music ensembles, performs regularly as a soloist and often plays as a substitute in orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Deutsches Sinfonie Orchester Berlin, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Berlin Philharmonic and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin. As an orchestral and chamber musician, Christoph Korn has travelled throughout Europe and internationally.
In the 2018/2019 season, Christoph Korn was principal bass clarinettist with the Sächsische Staatskapelle and returned to the RSB in the same role for the 2019/2020 season.
Since the 2020/2021 winter semester, he has held a teaching position at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin.
Anne Mentzen was born in Braunschweig in 1981, where she received her first piano lessons at the age of five. At the age of nine she began horn lessons and from 1998 was trained by Theodor Wiemes, principal horn of the Radiophilharmonie Hannover.
After graduating from high school, she began studying horn in the fall of 2000 in the class of Marie-Luise Neunecker at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main. From 2003 she studied with Thomas Hauschild at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig, where she graduated with honors.
Anne Mentzen won several federal prizes at “Jugend musiziert” as well as prizes at other competitions, both with the horn and on the piano. In 1999, in addition to the first national prize, she was awarded a special prize by the Hanover Artists’ Association and in 2000 she was also awarded the Lower Saxony Prize for “outstanding achievements in the cultural field”. She has also received scholarships from the Volkswagen Bank (1999), the Richard Wagner Association (2000), and the Gustav Mahler Academy (2002, 2005).
The hornist gained orchestral experience in the state and national youth orchestras, the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, and was invited several times to the International Orchestra Academy of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. After an internship with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and a temporary position with the Staatsorchester Kassel, she went to the Deutsche Oper Berlin as an intern in 2005.
Since 2006 Anne Mentzen has been a horn player with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Here she plays in various chamber music formations, such as the ensemble “Samtblech”.
Gudrun Vogler has been an oboist and English horn player with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2002.
From 1988 to 1992, she was the principal oboist at the National Theatre Weimar.
As a two-time prizewinner of the ARD Music Competition in the field of chamber music with the wind quintet “Kammervereinigung Berlin,” she recorded CDs with this ensemble for renowned labels, initially performing extensively throughout Germany and later internationally.
As a member of the specialized ensemble for contemporary music “KNM Berlin,” where she was active from 1992 to 2019 and performed in cities such as Buenos Aires, Tokyo, and Taipei, she explored her role as an instrumentalist, performer, and creative and vibrant interpreter with great curiosity and joy.
Since 2015, she has also been involved in the music education program of the RSB. As a music ambassador in classrooms, she shares her enthusiasm for classical music with young people in schools. She has developed concepts for children’s and youth concerts in various teams.
In addition to her concert and chamber music activities in various ensembles and genres, she has been performing successfully and regularly as a member of the solo formation “Date for three” since 2016.
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