Jan Vogler

Jan Vogler - German cellist

Person from Germany

Genres: cello, Classical, Klassik, haydn, male

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About Jan Vogler

Biography Jan Vogler, Violoncello “Vogler’s intense and febrile sound is restrained by classical discipline and enriched by a searching musical intelligence.” (New Yorker review of My Tunes) “Vogler's bright, forthright tone and highly inflected manner acted like a much-needed beacon in the piece. In the expansive, marvelously pensive slow movement, he entranced the ear with long-held notes that began with a lack of vibrato that implied emotional nakedness, but sweetened in the final nanosecond with a bit of pulsing - just as your ears insisted on it.” (Philadelphia Inquirer) Recognized for his “rapturously heartfelt” playing (Washington Post) Jan Vogler’s distinguished career has featured concerts with some of the world’s most pre-eminent conductors including Lorin Maazel, Fabio Luisi, Semyon Bychkov, David Robertson, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Manfred Honeck and Donald Runnicles and internationally renowned orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Staatskapelle, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Cologne and Frankfurt Radio Orchestras, and the Vienna Symphony. A passionate recitalist and chamber musician, he has performed extensively with pianists Louis Lortie, Hélène Grimaud, Martin Stadtfeld, with violinists Mira Wang and James Ehnes and soprano Angelica Kirschschlager. With a strong classical foundation, Jan Vogler embraces the work of his contemporaries and welcomes the process of experimentation, expansion and refinement in his performance style. A dedicated champion of new music, he has recently premiered works by renowned composers Jörge Widmann, Tigran Mansurian with the WDR Sinfonieorchester conducted by Semyon Bychkov at the Cologne Triennale, John Harbison, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Udo Zimmermann with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra. New Recordings: In June 2010 “My Tunes II” released on SONY Classical in Germany. A companion to My Tunes I, the CD continues Jan’s exploration of his favourite cello pieces and features works by Saint-Saens, Paganini, Fauré, Kreisler, Wagner and Piazzolla. In August, Jan joins the Bavarian Radio Orchestra for a release on their own label NEOS: “Neuerscheinungen” features Elliott Carter’s 2001 Cello Concerto and Udo Zimmermann’s 2009 Lieder von einer Insel. Performances: The summer of 2010 sees Jan rejoin Baiba and Lauma Skride for a recital in Dublin, in New York’s Central Park with The Knights, on tour with the Baltic Youth Orchestra culminating with a performance at the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg, on tour with the Dresdner Kapellsolisten in Germany and at the Moritzburg Chamber Music Festival, of which Jan is also Artistic Director. The 2010-2011 season features an ever-challenging balance of concerts and recitals in Europe and North America. Jan begins his season in Europe in recital with Hélène Grimaud followed by a concert tour of Germany with the New York-based ensemble The Knights led by Eric Jacobsen which features the Shostakovich Cello Concerto and Jimi Hendrix’s Machine Gun – recorded for the SONY label and released to critical acclaim in 2009. Jan then undertakes a second German tour, this time with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Lan Shui. Other European appearances will take him to Dresden, Berlin, Bucharest and Turin. In the US, he will be seen on stage in Fort Worth, New Orleans and Stamford.

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