KARL LEISTER GUEST ARTIST RECITAL AND MASTER CLASS

THURSDAY, MARCH 3
Guest Artist Master Class
Karl Leister, clarinet
12:00 - 3:00 p.m., Duncan Recital Hall

FRIDAY, MARCH 4
Faculty and Guest Artist Recital
Karl Leister, clarinet
Robert Moeling, piano
Michael Webster, basset horn
Program: Schumann - Fantasiestücke, Op. 73; Allgulin - When the wind turns
(for solo clarinet); Mendelssohn - Konzertstücke for Clarinet, Basset Horn,
and Piano in D Minor, Op. 114; and Brahms - Sonata No. 2 in E-flat Major,
Op. 120.
8:00 p.m., Duncan Recital Hall

KARL LEISTER was born in Wilhelmshaven. His first lessons he got from his father, who was as a clarinet-player member of the RIAS-Symphonic Orchestra. Between 1953-1956 he studied at the Hochschule fur Musik in Berlin and in 1957, at the age of 19, was already solo clarinet-player at the Komische Oper Berlin under Vaclav Neumann and Walter Felenstein.

In 1959, Karl Leister began his work as solo clarinet-player at the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Herbert von Karajan. The thirty years of working together with Karajan was the most important and characterizing time for Karl Leister. At the same time his international career as a soloist and chamber musician began. His chamber music partners were moreover the Amadeus Quartet, Vogler Quartet, Wilhelm Kempf, Pierre Fournier, Gidon Kramer, Rita Streich, Kathleen Battle, as well as pianists James Levine, Ricardo Muti, Gerhard Oppitz, Christoph Eschenbach, Bruno Camino, Elena Bashkirova, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Paul Gulda, Stefan Vladar, and Forenc Bognar. Furthermore, he played as soloist under the direction of Herbert von Karajan, Karl Bohm, Seiji Ozawa, Eugen Jochum, Raphael Kubelik, Aaron Copland, Sir Neville Marriner, Paavo Berglund, and Raphael Fruhbeck de Burgos. Karl Leister is one of the founders of the ensemble "Blaser der Berliner Philharmoniker", Berlin Soloists as well as the Ensemble Wien-Berlin.

Since the foundation of the Herbert von Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Leister has been teaching the young generation. Today many of his former students work in important positions of German or international orchestras. Simultaneously Karl Leister is requested at international festivals and master classes.

Karl Leister obtained numerous awards and distinctions at national and international music competitions. Beyond that he recorded nearly all competitions of the clarinet literature on the following labels: DGG, EMI, Philips, Teldec/Warner, Orfeo, Deutsche Grammophon, BIS, Nimbus, Sony, Camerata Tokyo.

1987 he began honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music London. Between 1993 and 2002 Karl Leister was professor at the Hochschule fur Musik Berlin "Hanns Eisler".