Composer & Clarinet
Biography:
Jorg Widman, born in Munich in 1973, studied clarinet at the music academy in his hometown with Gerd Starke and later with Charles Neidich at the Juilliard School in New York. At the age of 11 he began to take composition lessons, e.g. with Wilfried Hiller, Hans Werner Henze, Heiner Goebbels and Wolfgang Rihm.
As a clarinettist, Jörg Widmann's passion is above all chamber music. He regularly makes music with partners such as Tabea Zimmermann, Heinz Holliger, András Schiff, Christine Schäfer and Gidon Kremer. He has also enjoyed success as a soloist in orchestral concerts (e.g. with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the DSO Berlin, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Irish Chamber Orchestra). He works with conductors such as Christoph von Dohnanyi, Sylvain Cambreling, Christoph Eschenbach, David Zinman and Kent Nagano.
Several new clarinet concertos have been dedicated to him, including works by Wolfgang Rihm, Aribert Reimann and Heinz Holliger.
Jörg Widmann was composer and artist in residence at various festivals and institutions such as the Salzburg Festival, the Lucerne Festival, the Cologne Philharmonic, the Vienna Konzerthaus and in 2010/2011 with the Cleveland Orchestra.
Jörg Widmann has been a professor for clarinet at the Freiburg University of Music since 2001, and in 2009 he received an additional professorship for composition there. He has received numerous national and international awards and prizes for his work.
Albums:
Anthèmes 1 & 2 / Dialogue de l'ombre double:
Donaueschingen Music Days 2015:
Donaueschingen Music Days 2006 Vol. 2:
Messages from the late Miss RV Trussowa / ... gloomy ...:
