时间：2018年4月9日 14:00

地点：钢琴系6C-C313排练厅

人物简介：

born in Göttingen/Germany, received his first music lessons in Oldenburg, where he had his first public performance of preludes and fugues from Bach’s ‘Well-Tempered Clavier’. He continued his musical studies at Hamburg Music Academy in the subjects piano (E. Hansen), conducting (W. Brückner-Rüggeberg and K. Seibel) and music theory (C. Hohlfeld). Weber won a scholarship by the ‘Studiensiftung des Deutschen Volkes’ and was selected for the federal competition of ‘Young Artists in Concert’. Among the several prizes awarded to him the prizes from the ARD Competition of the German TV and radio stations, from the international Competition of Rome and from the Brethren Busch Competition deserve to be mentioned. – As a soloist, chamber musician and Lied accompanist the artist gave concerts in numerous European countries as well as in the USA (Carnegie Hall), China and Korea. His musical partners were Christoph Eschenbach, Christoph Poppen, Alan Titus, Isabelle van Keulen – to name only a few – as well as the Philharmonic Brass Ensemble Berlin and some of the most reputed German and European orchestras.  Moreover, Mathias Weber was hosted on various international festivals. Various CD productions give an impression of the manifold repertoire of this musician.

   As a supporting staff member of the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Mathias Weber maintained a leading role as a long-standing music instructor. Further stages of his musical career are closely connected with Hamburg Music Academy and Hamburg Conservatory.  – Weber also became known as a skilful arranger and as the author of theoretical essays. In this context the publication of his essay ‘Beethoven’s sonata op. 24 – some aspects about the dialectical relationship of process and form’ appeared in a compilation of texts by the Academy of Music and Drama in Hamburg.

   His version of Brahms’ piano quintet for piano and strings was more than once performed by Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Neuss, and the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Hanseatic Town of Lübeck staged Weber’s version of C. Franck’s piano quintet in June 2008. The clarinet sonata op. 120 nr. 1 by J. Brahms, recorded on this CD, also represents an adaptation of this oeuvre by Weber for clarinet and chamber orchestra.

   Only recently on his ‘quest for the lost sound of the past’ Mathias Weber has discovered the sound of the 19  century Erard grands, which may be regarded as the predecessors of the modern Steinway .