Musical Directors and Lecturer at EHI

Prof. Johannes Lüthy, Viola

He was born in 1961 in Bad Säckingen.

After engagements in the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (Geneva) and in the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg (solo violist) his orchestra career led him to the place of the first solo violist in the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg.

As an asked chamber music partner as well as as a soloist he gives concerts in North America and South America and in many countries of Europe. Beside numerous broadcast recordings Johannes Lüthy with special eagerness devotes himself to teaching. After a period of two years as an assistant of his former teacher, Hatto Beyerle, in the college for music in Hannover he took over a class in the college for music in Freiburg in 1989 and has been working there since 1996 as a professor. In 2001 he followed a call to the college for music in Karlsruhe.

Prof. Ulf Rodenhäuser, Clarinet

The native of Nuremberg has studied in the conservatoire of his hometown in the works of Richard Kätzel and in the college for music Munich with Gerd Starke as well as has pursued music-scientific studies at the university of Munich. He received numerous awards in competitions.
From 1973 to 1987 he was a solo clarinettist of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra as well as the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian broadcasting company. As a soloist he has worked together with numerous big orchestras and directors, among others with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, with the Radio Symphony Orchestras in Berlin, Stuttgart and Munich, with the Bamberger Synphony Orchestra, with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra etc..., and with the directors Gerd Albrecht, Moshe Atzmon, Dennis Russell Davies, Dmitrji Kitaenko, Karl Münchinger, Helmut Rilling, Klaus Tennstedt et al.
His numerous records (with DG, Philips, Bayerrecords, naxos, mdg) have been distinguished with many important record prices including the Cannes Classical Award, the German Record Price, the Echo Classical Meriod Price, Cinq Lyres.
World premieres or commissioned works of numerous contemporary composers, among others Frank Michael Beyer, Gijan Kancheli, Volker David Kirchner, Krzysztof Meyer, Lepo Sumera, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Isang Yun, top his interpreter's profile off.
Rodenhäuser works for nearly 20 years in the artistic management of the state endowment Villa Musica Rhineland-Palatinate and leads the Musical Academy of Stuttgart, a successful chamber music series for over 15 years. Recently he also appears successfully as a director, among others with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra.
He teaches Clarinet and Chamber Music at the college for music and theatre in Munich and is responsible conceptual for the Odeon Concerts of the college.


[Translate to English:] Sandor Szabo

Sandor Szabo comes from Siofok (Hungary) and received his education at the college for music in Freiburg with Prof. Branimir Slokar. Since 2004 he is a member of the Baden State Chapel.

 

 

[Translate to English:] Sándor Járvorkai, Geige

The Hungarian violinist was born in 1976 in Győr and received his first violin lessons at the age of three years from his father. He performed publicly already at the age of five years for the first time. He studied first at the Franz Liszt Music Academy of Budapest under Prof. Ferenc Halász and then changed to the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna to Prof. Michael Frischenschlager where he graduated with honors in 2004. He patricipated in master courses with world-renowned artists such as Isaac Stern, Tibor Varga and Vladimir Spivakov as well as with György Swotting, Lorand Fenyves, Stefan Ruha, Ferenc Rados and Vera Vaidman. As a concertmaster Sándor Jávorkai played under the direction of Mariss Jansons and Marcello Viotti in the International Orchestra Institute of Attergau under the patronage of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Moreover, he performs since 2008 as a concertmaster and soloist with the Europe Philharmony.

As a soloist he gave concerts with famous orchestras such as the Berlin Symphony, the Dresden Philharmony, the Baden Sinfonietta, the Composer Orchestra Lower Austria, the Savaria Symphony Orchestra, the Budapest Philharmony, the Győr Philharmony, the North-Hungarian Symphony Orchestra, the Szeged Symphony Orchestra and the Debrecen Symphony Orchestra.


Concert tours through Hungary, Italy, Spain, Germany, Holland, Austria, Greece, England, Turkey, Japan, Malta, Tunisia, Norway, Egypt, Russia, Romania and Israel as well as regular radio recordings for the Hungarian transmitter Radio Bartók, the Austrian broadcast transmitter Ö1, the Vienna transmitter of classical music Radio Stephansdom and the Polish radio prove the many-sided artistic activities of the young violinist. Sándor Jávorkai guested in important concert halls such as the Vienna Concert Hall, the Berlin Concert Hall, the Philharmony Luxembourg, the Sava-Center Belgrade, the "Forbidden City" in Beijing, the Warsaw Philharmony and the Opera City Tokyo.

Sándor Jávorkai was a scholarship holder of the Herbert-von-Karajan-Center Vienna. The deep musicality and the divinely light violin playing of the exceptional talent were distinguished in numerous international competitions with throughout first prices: In 1990-1994: successively in each case 1st prize in the Emil-Vajda-String Instruments-Competition, Hungary; in 1992: 1st prize in the János-Koncz-Violin- Competition, Hungary; in 1993: 1st prize and special price in the international Carl-Flesch-Violin- Competition, Hungary; in 1999: special price in the International Pablo-de-Sarasate-Violin- Competition Pamplona, Spain; in 2000: 1st prize and special price in the International Chamber Music Competition Thessaloniki, Greece; in 2003: together with brother Ádám Jávorkai 1st place in the Kodály Competition Semmering, Austria; in 2009:  together with Ádám Jávorkai he was distinguished by Jeunesse and the Bank of Austria as "Artist of the Year".


[Translate to English:] Prof. Ekkehard Beringer, Kontrabass

Ekkehard Beringer received his first contrabass lessons at the age of ten years. During his schooltime he was music member of the federal youth orchestra and federal prizewinners of the competition „Youth Makes Music“.
He studied orchestra music in the colleges of music in Cologne and Karlsruhe under Prof. Wolfgang Güttler as well as in the postgraduate study soloist's class in the college for music "Franz Liszt" in Weimar with Prof. Horst-Dieter Wenkel. Master courses with Ion Cheptea, Ovidiu Badila and Ulrich Lau completed his education. During his study Beringer was member of the youth orchestra of the European Union (EUYO). At the age of 24 years Beringer  became member of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra (direction: Sergiu Celibidache), with 27 (acting 1.) solo double-bass player of the Garment House Orchestra Leipzig, with 29 1st solo double-bass players in the Orchestra of the German Opera Berlin. Since 2002 he is 1st solo double-bass player in the Symphony Orchestra NDR Hamburg with which he also appeared as a soloist. Further solistic and chamber-musical appearances led him among others to Switzerland, Croatia, Slovenia and Czechia.
In the pedagogical area Ekkehard Beringer worked as a professional lecturer, played contrabass with the Schleswig-Holstein-Music-Festival- Orchestra, the young German Philharmony and the Federal Youth Orchestra. He gave also master courses in Czechia, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium.


He plays on an instrument of the Venetian Master Matteo Gofriller (1659-1742).

In Hannover at HMT Beringer is a professor for contrabass since 2008.

 


[Translate to English:] Prof. Ingo Goritzki, Oboe

Ingo Goritzki, Berliner by birth, studied Oboe with Helmut Winschermann and piano with Klaus Schilde in the Northwest-German Music Academy in Detmold. An academic year in Paris as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation and courses with Pablo Casals and Sándor Végh in Zermatt enlarged his musical education.   
Several times he was distinguished in national and international competitions (Birmingham, Prague and Geneva) and was the first Solo-Oboist in the Symphony Orchestra Basel (Switzerland) and later in the Radio - Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt am Main.   
After his orchestra activity of more than ten years Ingo Goritzki took over a professorship in the public college for music and theatre of Hannover, before he followed a call to the Stuttgart music college.   
Ingo Goritzki makes music with the Stuttgart blower's academy and the ensemble Villa Musica. As a soloist he has appeared with numerous orchestras of the home and foreign countries, as well as with international festivals such as Oregon Bach (USA), Kusatsu and Affinis (JAPAN), Isang Yun festival (KOREA), Crusell festival (FINLAND), Ticino Musica (SWITZERLAND), Berlin festival and Schleswig - Holstein. Ingo Goritzki is a co-founder of the Musical Academy of Stuttgart and art director of the classical music festival „Sommersprossen“ ("freckles") in Rottweil.   
He imparts his educational experiences regularly in events of the International Bach Academy of Stuttgart and the state foundation Villa Musica, as well as on master courses all over the world.

 

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