Stuttgarter Posaunen Consort, Simon Reichert & Henning Wiegräbe
Biography Stuttgarter Posaunen Consort, Simon Reichert & Henning Wiegräbe
Das Stuttgarter Posaunen Consort
The Stuttgarter Posaunen Consort was founded in 2006 by Henning Wiegräbe at the University of Music Stuttgart. The ensemble has since performed regularly in Germany, France, Austria and Switzerland, combining great professionalism with youthful exuberance and the joy of discovery. The great diversity of musical genres - from renaissance music to pop and funk music - is a trademark of the ensemble. In 2014, the Stuttgarter Posaunen Consort recorded and released its first CD ‘Romantic’.
Among the players of the Stuttgarter Posaunen Consort are prize winners and finalists of national and international competitions such as the Aeolus Competition, the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb and the Vilnius Trombone Competition. Members oft he ensemble take part of the Yehudi Menuhin ‘Live Music Now’ scholarship. Moreover, the Consort features players working as academists and substitute members in orchestras from Munich to Kiel, and many are often seen in early music ensembles such as The Academy for Early Music Berlin, Gaechinger Cantorey and the Balthasar-Neumann Ensemble. Past students of the Stuttgart trombone class play in orchestras throughout Germany, China, Switzerland and Sweden including the Bavarian Radio Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic and teach at music universities in Leipzig, Gothenburg, Peking and Shanghai. As such, the Stuttgarter Posaunen Consort is both an exciting and flexible chamber ensemble as well as a springboard for the careers of many young musicians.
Henning Wiegräbe
Trombonist Henning Wiegräbe is the professor of trombone at the University of Music Stuttgart. During his time as principal trombonist with the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz he dedicated much of his time to historic performance. Since then, he has performed with many leading early music ensembles and conductors such as Konrad Junghänel, Philippe Herreweghe, Andrew Parrott, Ton Koopman, Pablo Heras-Casado and Thomas Hengelbrock. He is the founder and director of the Capricornus Ensemble Stuttgart.
Alongside his work as soloist with orchestras including the Bundesjugendorchester, the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, the Dortmund Philharmoniker, the Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester and the Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, he is an enthusiastic chamber musician. Partnering with artists such as the Mandelring Quartett, the Vogler Quartett, the Verdi Quartett, the Peter Lehel Quartett, Daniel Schnyder, Martin Spangenberg, Wolfgang Bauer, Christian Lampert, Radovan Vlatkovic and City Brass Stuttgart.
Especially close to Henning’s heart is the exploration and expansion of the trombone repertoire. Thus, he is active in discovering and premiering unknown works from the renaissance and baroque eras, as well as collaborations with contemporary composers and crossover artists e.g. Peter Lehel and Daniel Schnyder.
Before assuming the role of professor of trombone at the University of Music Stuttgart, Henning taught at the universities of music in Saarbrücken and Basel and has given masterclasses internationally from Paris and Moscow to South Africa and China.
Simon Reichert
born in 1980 in Gütersloh studied church music, organ and historically informed performance in Detmold and Basel. He has won prizes at numerous organ competitions such as the Grand Prix d’ECHO Freiberg 2014.
After working as a church musician in Germany, Switzerland and Denmark, he has been choir-master and organist of the protestant district Neustadt an der Weinstraße since 2009. His official residence is the Gothic collegiate church there, the central point and cultural center of the city famous for its winegrowing tradition.
Furthermore, he is artistic director of several concert series e.g. the Neustadter Orgelsommer and the Neustadter Herbst – Festival Alte Musik an der Weinstraße.
As an organist, he frequently performs on big cathedral organs, particularly on historical instruments. His repertoire ranges from late-medieval compositions to the avant-garde, focusing especially on baroque music. He has given concerts with the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie Herford, the Orchestre de Chambre du Luxembourg and the Cappella Istrapolitana Bratislava. In 2015, he performed Johann Sebastian Bach’s complete works in eighteen concerts. He regularly collaborates with the Neustadter baroque orchestra ensemble 1800 and the Capricornus Ensemble Stuttgart as well as with a number of chamber musicians.
In 2016, his PASCHENrecords debut Trio Sonatas was published, which was recorded at the Trost organ in Waltershausen. In 2017, Simon Reichert was invited to play with the Mandelring Quartet at the Hambacher Musikfest and premiered at the Internationale Orgelfestwochen Rheinland-Pfalz while giving numerous concerts in Germany, Denmark, Austria, Italy, and Switzerland.
