Von Barock bis Beatles - Mikrokonzert #1 des Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchesters Berlin

Four trombones and a tuba, blown by members of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin: they welcome visitors to the large foyer of the Humboldt Forum on Museum Sunday with sublime brass music from three centuries.

As in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, where the early Baroque master Girolamo Frescobaldi was a papal organist and composer, the instrumental alternating chants and dance tunes sound from the galleries high up in the foyer, after which the five musicians move through the levels of the staircase; visitors are cordially invited to follow the sounds. The works by Girolamo Frescobaldi, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Sir James Paul McCartney, John Winston Ono Lennon and others will be briefly introduced during the event by RSB concert dramaturge Steffen Georgi. The exact program sequence will be published on this page shortly before the concert.

Microconcert #1 is the first in a series of concerts in which RSB musicians enter into a dialog with the exhibitions. The Humboldt Forum and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin are jointly organizing the micro-concerts on museum Sundays until June 2024 - as part of the RSB's 100th anniversary.

Trombone quintet of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB)

Edgar Manyak - solo trombonist: Edgar Manyak was born in Sibiu, Romania. He received his first lessons from his father at the age of ten. After moving to Germany, he was a private student of Prof. Richard Zettler. At the age of 19, he was awarded first prize and became national winner for trombone in the "Jugend Musiziert" competition. In 1989, Edgar Manyak began his studies at the Hochschule der Künste with Prof. Johann Doms and moved to the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Trossingen and Freiburg im Breisgau in 1990 to study with Prof. Branimir Slokar. In 1992 he was a finalist at the International Trombone Competition "Prague Spring" and in 1993 he was awarded first prize at the International Trombone Competition of the International Trombone Association in Berlin. Edgar Manyak completed his orchestral diploma in 1994. This was followed by postgraduate artistic studies. After several years as a chamber musician, including in the Slokar Trombone Quartet, he was engaged by the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (RSB), with whom he played a solo concert in 2003 that was broadcast live around the world. From 2005 to 2006 he was also principal trombonist with the Staatskapelle Dresden. He is a lecturer at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel.

Hannes Hölzl - solo trombonist: Hannes Hölzl was born in 1987 in Bad Hofgastein in the Austrian province of Salzburg. After beginning his musical education playing the recorder, he switched to the tenor horn at the age of five. At the age of ten, he also received trombone lessons from the Goldegg music school teacher Gernot Pracher. He later studied at the renowned Mozarteum University in Salzburg with Prof. Dany Bonvin. From 1998 to 2000, Hannes Hölzl completed the Austrian Wind Music Association's bronze, silver and gold performance badges, all with "excellent success". He was also successful at numerous international competitions: starting as the winner of the "Prima la musica" competition, he was awarded 2nd prize in Cordoba, Argentina and 1st prize at the "European Solo Champion" in Montreux. He also received the Vienna Symphony Orchestra's sponsorship award.

Hannes Hölzl is a member of various brass ensembles and performs as a soloist with various wind orchestras and symphony orchestras at home and abroad, including in China, America, Tunisia, the Czech Republic, Italy, Switzerland and Germany. He has been principal trombonist with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin since 2012.

Dominik Hauer, trombone

Jörg Lehmann - bass trombonist: Jörg Lehmann was born in Eisenhüttenstadt in 1962. He studied at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin from 1979 to 1983. This was followed by his first engagement at the Komische Oper Berlin until 1986. He has been a bass trombonist in the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin since 1986. He is co-founder of the Trombone Quintet Berlin (1982-2005), now "Berlin Brass", the "Blechbläser-Ensemble Berlin" (1999-2005) ("Berlin Brass Brass Ensemble") and the "Berlin Brass Brass Quintet". He is also a regular guest with the "Blechbläserensemble Ludwig Güttler". Jörg Lehmann is committed to the interests of RSB members as orchestra and media director. He also initiates and conducts the orchestra's family concerts.

Fabian Neckermann - tuba player: Fabian Neckermann, born in 1995 in Ochsenfurt, Lower Franconia, has been principal tuba player in the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin since 2018 and has also been a lecturer at the Anton Rubinstein International Academy of Music since 2021. After starting out in the local music association, he completed a two-year training course to become a state-certified ensemble leader at the vocational school for music in Bad Königshofen with instrumental teacher Udo Schneider. In 2013, he studied with Prof. Jens Bjørn-Larsen at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, where he completed his bachelor's degree with top marks.

He gained his first orchestral experience as a member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and the European Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, as well as an academy member of the Nuremberg State Philharmonic and the Bavarian State Orchestra in Munich. Guest appearances as an orchestral musician have also taken him to the opera houses in Würzburg, Saarbrücken, Bonn, Hamburg and Berlin, as well as to the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the hr-Sinfonieorchester and the Berliner Philharmoniker. Fabian Neckermann was a finalist in the 2016 German Music Competition, whereupon he received a special prize from the Capriccio Kulturforum - Gesellschaft zur Förderung von klassischer Musik und Kultur e. V. and was accepted as a scholarship holder in the 61st Federal Selection of Concerts by Young Artists. In the final, he performed on stage as a soloist with the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn.

He was awarded the OPUS KLASSIK in 2022 with his ensemble "Trio 21meter60", which consists of three tubas. He is also a regular guest in ensembles such as "Genesis Brass", the "Brass Ensemble Ludwig Güttler" and the "Brass Ensemble of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra".

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