Nicola JÜRGENSENClarinettist

German clarinettist Nicola Jürgensen studied with Hans Deinzer and Sabine Meyer. From an

early date her success in national and international music competitions brought her name to

the attention of a wider audience. Among her awards are the Mozart Prize awarded by the Wiesbaden Mozart Society and the

German Music Competition Soloists' Prize in 1999. Three years later she was awarded a

scholarship by German Radio, including concerts at the Bremen Music Festival.Nicola Jürgensen has been principal clarinet with the Western German Radio Symphony

Orchestra (WDR) in Cologne since 2001, successfully combining her orchestral duties with her

career as a soloist.As the latter she has appeared with the German Symphony Orchestra of Berlin (DSO), the

Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, the German Chamber Philharmonic of Bremen, the Hamburg

Symphony Orchestra, the Radio Orchestras of Berlin and Leipzig (MDR) and the State Theatre

orchestras of Braunschweig, Freiburg, Kassel, Rostock and Saarbrücken.She also performed as a soloist with the Chamber Orchestras of Poland, Basel and Vienna as

well as the Ensemble Resonanz in Hamburg, the Munich Chamber Orchestra (MKO) and

Chamber Orchestra Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach in Berlin.Among the conductors with whom she has worked are Stefan Blunier, Roy Goodman, Hartmut

Haenchen, Christopher Hogwood, Carlos Kalmar, Fabio Luisi, Andrea Marcon, Peter Rundel

and Peter Ruzicka.Nicola Jürgensen is also very fond of performing chamber music. On invitation of the Artemis

Quartet, she has played Karl Amadeus Hartmann's Chamber Concerto for clarinet and string

quartet. Other musicians whom she has appeared with in recitals include the Minguet Quartet

and the Trio Jean Paul. In 2008 she played the part of „Eva“ in a production of Karlheinz Stockhausens's opera

"Michael's Journey Around The Earth" by Carlus Padrissa and La Fura dels Baus. The

production was seen at Vienna Festival, the Venice Biennale, the Warsaw Autumn Festival, the

Festival d`Automne Paris and elsewhere.

Among other international festivals Nicola Jürgensen has appeared are the Rheingau Music

Festival and the chamber music festivals of Risör (Norway) and Lockenhaus (Austria).A high point of the season 2011/12 was the performance of Johann Wilhelm Wilms' long-lost

clarinet concerto with the WDR Symphony Orchestra and Reinhard Goebel.On her debut CD "Dans La Nuit" released with ORFEO in april 2012, she is presenting self-

arranged french chamber music and songs together with her long-term pianist Matthias

Kirschnereit.In 2013 she performed as a soloist with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin as well as bringing

Giya Kantcheli's "Night Prayers" on stage with the WDR Symphony Orchestra. The season also

included her debuts at Lincoln Center Festival New York, Wuhan Festival (China) and Auckland

Philharmonia Orchestra, New Zealand. 2014 and 2015 brought her to Bangkok, where together with collaborators from Thailand and

the German Goethe Institute, Nicola Jürgensen established the "German Masters Music

Festival", a series of concerts and masterclasses. She also returned to Wuhan Festival, China,

performing both Mozart and Weber concertos with the Wuhan Philharmonic Orchestra.Nicola Jürgensen has given numerous international masterclasses. In 2016, she will be teaching

at the "Young Musicians' Foundation" Bayreuth as well as at the "Gustav Mahler Academy

Bolzano". She will also be holding a masterclass at the "Dresden International Music

Masterclasses".

RepertoireSolo ConcertosLeonard Bernstein Prelude, Fugue and RiffsFrancois BorneFantaisie brillante on themes from Bizet's „Carmen“ Johannes BrahmsSonata op. 120 No.1 (Orchesterfassung von Luciano Berio) Max BruchConcerto for clarinet, viola and orchestra E minor op.88 Aaron Copland Concerto for clarinet, harp and strings Claude Debussy Premiére rhapsodie Karl Amadeus HartmannChamber concerto for clarinet and string quartet with string orchestraPaul HindemithConcerto for clarinet and orchestra in A Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Concert pieces for clarinet and basset horn and orchestra op.113 and op.114 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Concerto A major KV 622 (original version for basset clarinet)Carl NielsenConcerto op.57

Wolfgang Rihm „Male über Male“ Gioacchino RossiniTheme and variations C major Introduction, theme and variations B major Louis SpohrConcerto No. 2 B Major Johann Stamitz Concerto B major Carl Stamitz Concerto E flat major Concerto B major Concerto for clarinet, bassoon and orchestra Richard Strauss Duett-Concertino clarinet, bassoon and orchestra Toru TakemitsuFantasma/CantosGiuseppe Verdi/arr.BassiConcert fantasy on themes from Verdi's „Rigoletto“ Concert fantasy on themes from Verdi's „La Traviata“ Carl Maria von WeberConcerto F minorConcerto E flat majorConcertino op.26 Silvana variations op.33 Quintet op.34 (setting with string orchestra) Johann Wilhelm Wilms Clarinet concerto B major

Chamber music and recital repertoire available on request.

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