Chamber Music Evening N° 4

At the age of nine Andreas Kißling received his first lessons on the flute at a music school in the town of Göppingen. He went on to study at Berlin’s University of the Arts under Roswitha Staege and Karlheinz Zoeller. In 2006 he took third prize at the Aurèle Nicolet Competition in Beijing. While still a student, Andreas Kißling was principal flautist of the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra and the Deutsche Radio Philharmonic Orchestra of Saarbrücken and Kaiserslautern, and sub-principal flautist of the State Opera in Stuttgart. Since February 2011 he has been principal flautist of the Staatskapelle Dresden.

Zusätzlich zu seiner Tätigkeit im Orchester ist regelmäßig als Kammermusiker und Solist zu hören, wie zum Beispiel bei der Deutschen Erstaufführung des 2. Flötenkonzertes von Mieczysław Weinberg mit der Sächsischen Staatskapelle Dresden im Februar 2017. Inspiration findet er in Reisen mit dem Orchester oder auch privat, durch Filme, Kunst, jeglicher Art von Musik und vor allem im Austausch mit Freunden, Kollegen und auf Reisen im Kennenlernen anderer Menschen und Kulturen.

Andreas Kißling spielt eine 18 Karat Goldflöte von Muramatsu und für ausgewählte Programme Alter Musik eine Holzflöte von Harry Gosse.

Born in Weimar in 1966, Wolfram Große took clarinet lessons from the age of ten. In 1980 he became a pupil at the Spezialschule für Musik in Berlin before going on to study from 1984 to 1988 under Ewald Koch at the Hanns Eisler College of Music, also in Berlin.

Wolfram Große’s career as an orchestral musician began in 1988 when he was became deputy principal clarinet of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra. From 1989 to 1999 he was principal clarinet at Frankfurt Opera.

In 1999 he joined the Staatskapelle Dresden in the same position. Since 2000 Wolfram Große has also been principal clarinet of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. In addition to his orchestra duties he is a member of the Wind Quintet of the Staatskapelle Dresden.

As a chamber musician and soloist Wolfram Große has won prizes at several competitions, for example in Munich, Markneukirchen and Colmar. In 2002 he was awarded the Fritz Busch Prize by the Semperoper Foundation. 

Born in Chemnitz, Robert Langbein attended the Belvedere Music School in Weimar. He continued his musical training at Weimar Music College under Rainer Heimbuch and, from 2001, in Berlin at the Hanns Eisler College of Music as well as the University of the Arts under Christian-Friedrich Dallmann. While still a student he received his first appointment as principal horn of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin before joining the Staatskapelle in the same position in 2005.

Robert Langbein previously gained valuable experience in orchestral performance with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra. He has won numerous prizes and accolades such as a first prize at the International Competition of Markneukirchen in 2004, a first prize at the Kurt Alten Competition in Hanover as well as a special prize for natural horn at the Concours de Genève. In 2010 he was awarded the Horn Prize of the Michael Schuncke Foundation in Baden-Baden. 

In the 2013/2014 season Langbein was artist-in-residence at the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition, Robert Langbein is a popular soloist with renowned orchestras such as the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Berlin, the Radio Philharmonic Hanover, the Geneva Chamber Orchestra as well as the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec.

Robert Langbein is also active as an educator, teaching at the University of the Arts in Berlin before joining the faculty of the Carl Maria von Weber Conservatory of Music in 2009, where he became Professor for Horn in 2013. In addition he lectures on brass performance at numerous courses (Sorbian National Ensemble) and gives masterclasses (Pacific Music Festival, Sapporo, Dresden Masterclasses Music).  

After studying at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris, the French-Canadian pianist Liam Dugelay became artist in residence in Louis Lortie and Avedis Koujoumdjian’s class at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel (QEMC) during the 2021-2022 season, completing in parallel his bachelor in two years at the Koninklijk Conservatorium under Aleksandar Madzar’s guidance.
Searching for different musical approaches Liam participated in Orford Music academy (near Montreal) where he was semi-finalist of the 2022 price, Domaine Forget (Québec), Saline Royale, Villecroze or Ravel academies with teachers such as A. Kouyoumdjian, L. Lortie, JF Neuburger, JF Heisser, D. Pascal and S.D. Buchner. He was also finalist in Jarrousky Academy (Paris).
Very interested in contemporary music he worked with composers such as Michael Jarell, Philippe Hersant and Jean Frédéric Neuburger.

Liam is now continuing his studies in the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna in chamber music bachelor with A. Kouyoumdjian. In this discipline, Liam performed alongside musicians such as Louis Lortie, Andrei Baranov, Aleksey Shadrin or Chihiro Kitada. During his studies in Vienna, Liam co-founded the trio Souvenirs with Sakura Itoh and Gustav Wocher receiving guidance from mentors including Peter Schuhmayer, Sibila Konstantinova, Andrei Baranov (Essen) and trio Kubelik (Prague).
During his masterclass with Louis Lortie in Michel Plasson’s academy in summer 2021, Liam was spotted by Anja Krauss and Bernd Schober and finally invited to perform in this evening’s concert in Semperoper.
Liam Dugelay is supported by the Safran Foundation for young artists since July 2021.