Sabine Meyer

Sabine Meyer (born 1959)[1] is a German classical clarinetist.

Bassett clarinet and b-flat clarinet in size comparison
Sabine Meyer
Foto 2019
Background information
Born1959 (age 60–61)
Crailsheim, Germany
GenresClassical music, contemporary music
Occupation(s)Solo clarinetist and Professor for Clarinet
InstrumentsClarinet (German system)
Years active1983–present
LabelsEMI Classics, Warner Classis, Avi-music, Deutsche Grammophon
Associated acts
Websitewww.sabine-meyer.com
Teachers while studying:
Otto Hermann, Stuttgart and Hans Deinzer, Hannover

Well-known former students
Shirley Brill (Israel), Annelien Van Wauwe (Belgium)

Performances per year:
approximately 60
Awards:
ECHO Klassik Prize, eight-time winner, Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Cross of Merit 1st Class, Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg, several art and music awards

Discography/Streaming:
numerous CDs, one DVD, several YouTube Videos, sound recordings also on Spotify and Deezer

Agent:
Konzertdirektion Hans Ulrich Schmid, Hannover
Personal / Private

Spouse, children:
Reiner Wehle, Clarinetist and Professor;
2 children
Hobbies:
riding and horse breeding

Residence:
Lübeck,  Germany

Biography

Born in Crailsheim, Baden-Württemberg, Meyer began playing the clarinet at an early age. Her first teacher was her father, also a clarinetist. She studied with Otto Hermann in Stuttgart and then with Hans Deinzer at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover, along with her brother, clarinetist Wolfgang Meyer, and husband, clarinetist Reiner Wehle, who played later in the Munich Philharmonic.[2] She began her career as a member of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic, where her appointment as one of the orchestra's first female members caused controversy.[3] Herbert von Karajan, the orchestra's music director, hired Meyer in September 1982, but the players voted against her at the conclusion of her probation period by a vote of 73 to 4.[4] The orchestra insisted the reason was that her tone did not blend with the other members of the section, but other observers, including Karajan, believed that the true reason was her gender. In 1983, after nine months, Meyer left the orchestra to become a full-time solo clarinetist.[5]

Orchestras with which she has performed include the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic. In addition, she performs regularly with the Radio Symphony Orchestras in Vienna, Basel, Warsaw, Prague, Turin, Budapest, Brussels and Copenhagen and with major orchestras in Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan and Switzerland.

In addition to her work as a soloist, Sabine Meyer is a committed player of chamber music and plays all styles of classical music. She finds great value in continued long-term collaboration with other musicians. She was a member of the Trio di Clarone along with her brother and husband who have recorded many CDs.[6][7] In late 2006 she undertook a short tour with the Mozart Clarinet Concerto. A particularly notable performance in this tour was at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra on 5 December. Meyer and her wind quintet have worked as members of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra with Claudio Abbado.[8]

By the 1990s, she had become a prominent solo clarinetist, recording regularly and exclusively for the EMI label. These include a CD of French music for Clarinet and Piano with Oleg Maisenberg, entitled French Recital. A disc of clarinet concertos by Ludwig Spohr and Franz Krommer was released in July 2007, for which she collaborated with her student Julian Bliss.

Based on her schedule, which is published on her website, it can be assumed that the artist has around 60 performances per year.

Meyer and her husband have two children and share a professorship at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and live in Lübeck.[2] Some of her students have also made a name for themselves as soloists, for example the Israeli clarinetists Shirley Brill and Shelly Ezra and the Hungarian clarinetist Boglárka Pecze (all three live in Germany), the Belgian clarinetist Annelien Van Wauwe, the German clarinetist Sebastian Manz and the Japanese clarinetist Taira Kaneko.

Instruments

Sabine Meyer plays the clarinet and basset clarinet in B♭ and A, as well as a basset horn in F, all made of grenadilla by Herbert Wurlitzer, and clarinets in B♭ and in A made of boxwood, manufactured by Schwenk & Seggelke, which she mainly uses in chamber music.

In 1984 she had commissioned Wurlitzer to build a bassett clarinet (in A) for her, not a historical replica, but a modern hitherto only occasionally built instrument. Since then she has been playing the clarinet concerto by Mozart (and his clarinet quintet) in a reconstructed version, with passages set deeper again. Because of her fame, she made this almost forgotten member of the clarinet family, which is about 18 cm longer than the normal, to produce the lower notes C to E♭, known again. Her example was followed by other soloists, who decided to play the Mozart concerto back on the clarinet for which he composed it and on which his friend and lodger Anton Stadler premiered on 16 October 1791 in Prague. They use either a historical instrument or a replica of the Stadler clarinet or a modern basset clarinet.

Awards

Recordings

There are a number of other CD recordings until 2017 that are listed on Sabine Meyer's website. Many of these recordings (more than 200 sentences) can be listened to online and free of charge from Amazon and others or downloaded as MP3 files for a fee. A smaller number of these recordings are also available on Spotify and Deezer. Labels are: EMI Classics, Warner Classis, Avi-music and Deutsche Grammophon.

There are no Blu-rays with her and there is only one DVD, the Mozart Quintet, played with the Hagen String Quartet. The artist is represented on YouTube with some videos and a series of sound recordings.

Personal

The artist lives with her husband in the old town of Lübeck. Her hobbies are cooking, reading, riding and horse breeding.[13]

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References
  1. Kunz, Roland (28 March 2019). "Die Klarinettistin Sabine Meyer wird 60". swr.de (in German). Stuttgart: Südwestrundfunk. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  2. Hannemann, Matthias (29 May 2007). "Solo für Klarinette". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Frankfurt. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  3. UPI (8 January 1983). "Karajan and orchestra clash over clarinetist". The New York Times. New York City. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  4. "Schlag ins Konto". Der Spiegel (in German). Hamburg. 10 January 1983. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  5. Schwarz, Elisabeth (28 May 2018). ""Daneben verblasst erstmal alles": Sabine Meyer über Mozarts Bassettklarinettenkonzert". bachtrack.com. Bachtrack Ltd. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  6. Zimmerlin, Alfred (4 October 2013). "Avantgarde der Romantik". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Zürch. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  7. Obiera, Pedro (7 March 2017). "Kammermusik voller Poesie und Leidenschaft". Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Essen. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  8. Service, Tom (22 August 2007). "The maestro". The Guardian. Retrieved 2008-06-20.
  9. "Past winners". Website of the Brahms Society Schleswig-Holstein. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
  10. Staatsministerium Baden-Württemberg. "Verdienstorden des Landes Baden-Württemberg Liste der Ordensträger 1975 – 2018" (PDF). stm.baden-wuerttemberg.de. Retrieved 4 April 2012.
  11. Communication from the Office of the President of Germany, Retrieved 4 October 2013
  12. "Sabine Meyer". rudolf-oetker-halle.de.
  13. "Trio di Clarone - Sabine Meyer BIOGRAPHY". www.triodiclarone.com.

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