Peter Sadlo

Peter Sadlo - percussionist

Person from Germany

Genres: gammarec, german, 2juma, classical percussion

About Peter Sadlo

Sadlo Peter (* 1962 in Nuremberg, died July 29, 2016 ) is a German drummer . He is one of the world's most important solo percussionists. Sadlo grew up in Zirndorf , where at an early stage his talent was recognized: In 1967, he began classical percussion training and at the age of 12 he received as a guest student teaching at what was then the Meistersinger Conservatory in Nuremberg, from the College of Music Nuremberg has emerged. At the Musikhochschule Würzburg he studied with Siegfried Fink . In 1982 he became principal timpanist with the Munich Philharmonic under Sergiu Celibidache , who coined it sustainable. In 1983 he accepted a professorship for timpani and percussion at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich , 1990, he was a professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg appointed. After his separation from the Munich Philharmonic in 1997, he appears mainly as a solo percussionist, frequently in chamber music ensembles, such as with Gidon Kremer and pianist Anna Gourari , but also with the percussion ensemble Nexus , on. In addition to performing, he also deals with the possibilities to expand the sonic possibilities of the instrument, which was also the subject of his dissertation in 1997 in Musicology at the University of Bucharest. Many contemporary composers - a specially composed for percussion literature there since 20 Century - works composed for Peter Sadlo. He is also active in the development of new tools (eg drum) and created their own mallets series. In the succession of Gidon Kremer he served from 2007 to 2010 as artistic director of the chamber music star-studded Basel Festival "Les muséiques". Moreover, since 2007, the artistic advisor to the International Music Meeting Haus Marteau of Upper Franconia in Lichtenberg. There, he gives master classes since 1989 even for drums and is the founder of the concert series Haus Marteau traveling.

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