Alter Ego David Orlowsky & David Bergmüller

• David Orlowsky (b. 1981), David Bergmüller (b. 1989):
• 1 Eileen 03:51
• David Bergmüller:
• 2 Napoli Sketch 2 03:42
• Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695):
• 3 Dido´s Lament 04:03
• Thomas Preston (1542 - 1663):
• 4 La Mi Re 03:01
• John Dowland (1563 - 1626):
• 5 Flow My Tears 03:55
• David Orlowsky, David Bergmüller:
• 6 Zeitfaltung 04:28
• Henry Purcell:
• 7 Mighty Powers 02:57
• David Orlowsky, David Bergmüller:
• 8 Serendipity 04:01
• David Orlowsky:
• 9 Ada 02:50
• Henry Purcell:
• 10 Music For A While 04:35
• 11 Cold Song 04:42
• Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (1580 - 1651)
• 12 Toccata Arpeggiata 03:57
• Total Runtime 46:02

Info for Alter Ego

“An alter ego (second or different self) is both a close companion to the individual as well as an additional personality. David Orlowsky and David Bergmüller are companions, however, they could hardly be more different. They hail from different musical traditions and the combination of these two instruments have no historical references. When David Orlowsky first discovered a video of David Bergmüller on the internet, he was not aware that he had encountered his musical alter ego. The two met in Berlin and mutually agreed to make music together after just a few shared notes. They became companions, which then became a duo, the duo ultimately becoming an organism. Within this organism, David and David function as opposing and complementary personalities. Together they embark on a journey into unexplored worlds of sound. The clarinet is the voice of bygone times while the lute joins to create polyrhythmic structures allowing both new and old times to flow together in their original compositions.”

David Orlowsky, clarinet
David Bergmüller, lute

David Orlowsky
is widely recognized as a musician of tremendous expressiveness and depth, and is acknowledged worldwide as one of today's leading interpreters of the clarinet repertoire ranging from Mozart to Golijov to klezmer. An exclusive Sony recording artist, David has recorded seven discs which have received two ECHO Klassik awards and won him a large and devoted following. David Orlowsky has appeared both as a soloist and with his trio (the David Orlowsky Trio) at a number of major festivals and venues, including the Schleswig- Holstein Music Festival, Rheingau Music Festival, Beethovenfest, Lucerne Festival, Gidon Kremer’s Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival and the Moritzburg Festival.

Highlights of the 13-14 season include performances at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Stiftung Mozarteum in Salzburg, Berliner Philharmonie, Leipzig Gewandhaus and collaborations with the Danish String Quartet, pianist Igor Levit, mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital, and a special project with the German actor Dominique Horwitz, combining klezmer music and spoken word. 13-14 also marks the first season of "Kreuz & Quer“, a Berlin-based chamber music series curated by David.

An avid chamber musician, David collaborates regularly with celebrated performers such as Daniel Hope, Andreas Haefliger, Vilde Frang, the Fauré Quartet, Nils Moenkemeyer, and the vocal sextet Singur Pur, with whom he won the 2011 ECHO Klassik award "Classical Music without Boundaries" for their album Jeremiah. He also collaborates regularly with the Vogler Quartet, with whom he recorded a critically acclaimed Sony album featuring the works of Mozart and Golijov. David maintains close relationships with major contemporary composers such as Torsten Rasch, Matan Porat and David Bruce.

David is committed to community outreach and education initiatives and regularly performs in community venues such as hospitals and schools in conjunction with his main concerts. He has participated in Germany's "Rhapsody in School" project, a country-wide initiative which brings world-class musicians into schools and familiarizes children with classical music. His original compositions are published worldwide by Schott Music/ Advance Music and the music books are frequent bestsellers. Born in Tuebingen, Germany in 1981, David studied with Manfred Lindner at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen and with Charles Neidich and Ayako Oshima at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City.

He is currently based in Berlin.

David Bergmüller
was born in Austria. In 2004, he entered the classical guitar class of Stefan Hackl at the Tiroler Landeskonservatorium. At the age of 18, he became fascinated by the lute and, after participating in master classes with Rolf Lislevand and Miguel Yisrael, he subsequently decided to focus on this instrument. He studied with Hopkinson Smith at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and with Rolf Lislevand at the Hochschule für Musik Trossingen. As a continuo player he performed with Concentus Musicus, La Cetra, I Barocchisti, Collegium 1704, ZKO- Züricher Kammerorchester, Ars Antiqua Austria and personalities such as Maurice Steger, Sergio Azzolini, Rolf Lislevand, Alessandro de Marchi, Vaclav Lucs etc. 2017 he won the Franz Aumann price at the international H.I.F. Biber competition in St. Florian, Austria. Since 2018 he is teaching lute at Hochschule für Music und Tanz Köln.

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