A warm welcome to the Berliner Philharmoniker's official YouTube channel, where you can call up selected highlights from the orchestra's concerts. Composed between 1819 and 1823, Beethoven’s Missa solemnis is one of the most beautiful, thrilling and atypical settings of the sacred repertoire – despite its much-debated religious status. In 2010 he returned to Weimar for his post-graduate studies. The Berliner Philharmoniker performed Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the composer’s birth. We could not change your password. Under Christian Thielemann’s leadership, the Berliner Philharmoniker and Rundfunkchor delivered a memorable performance. An all-star recording gives the rare opportunity to hear these Nielsen concertos on disc.

In September 2013 he takes on the long vacant piccolo position with the Berliner Philharmoniker. It is descended from Bilsesche Kapelle (“Bilse’s Band”), formed in 1862 and directed by Benjamin Bilse, the court music director. Find out more about the “Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings” label. As he suffered more colds than was usual when he was a child, they thought playing the flute would strengthen his lungs. Language: The second prize winner of the International Theobald Böhm competition for flute and alto flute in 2011, Egor Egorkin gained orchestral experience parallel to his studies, initially as piccoloist and 3rd flute in the St. Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra (2008-2010) and later as a substitute in the Gewandhaus Orchestra (2010-2011) and in the Orchestra Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker, where he was a student from 2011 to 2013.

The musical direction was in the hands of chief conductor Sir Simon Rattle, who talks here with journalist James Jolly about the poignant mass for the dead. /Since 2014, the Berliner Philharmoniker have had full control over their recording output for the first time. He has already taken... In honour of this occasion, he performed as soloist in … In his spare time, Egor Egorkin combines his passion for music and IT technology by composing electronic music. 979 likes. The St. Petersburg-born musician, who loved his instrument from the very beginning, received his first flute lessons from Vladimir Ushakov when he was six. After Karajan and Abbado, Sir Simon Rattle is now the third principal conductor he has experienced in his orchestra career. Please make sure you entered a valid address. He also taught at the Geneva Conservatoire before returning to the Berliner Philharmoniker in 2002. In 2006/2007, the Maria Pavlovna-scholarship enabled him to attend the Liszt School of Music in Weimar, where he was a student of Wally Hase (flute) and Benjamin Plag (piccolo). Alberto Acuña Almela - Flutist, Ginebra. Official Facebook Page of the Flutist Alberto Acuña Almela. Egor Egorkin owes the fact that he is a flautist to his parents. It was always Emmanuel Pahud's dream to record the Nielsen flute concerto, so when it came to the recording, the orchestra had to be the BPO under Rattle of which he is the principal flute. After 45 years, Blau – in the opinion of the Berliner Zeitung “one of the world’s best flutists, and perhaps the very best orchestral flutist” – ended his career with the Berliner Philharmoniker in the 2013-14 season.
As he suffered more colds than was usual when he was a child, they thought playing the flute would strengthen his lungs.