| Friedrich Edelmann Artist's Website >> Friedrich Edelmann grew up in Kaiserslautern, Germany. He studied with Alfred Rinderspacher (Prof. in Mannheim), Klaus Thunemann (Prof. in Hamburg-Hannover-Berlin), and Milan Turkovic (Prof. in Vienna). After his diploma in mathematics ("Staatsexamen") in Heidelberg, he joined the orchestra of the "Pfalztheater" in Kaiserslautern for three years and in 1977 became Principal Bassoonist of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra ("Münchner Philharmoniker"), from 1979 until 1996 under Maestro Sergiu Celibidache and from 1999 until 2004 under Maestro James Levine. He won several first prizes in German national competitions and was a member of the World-Orchestra of Jeunesses Musicales under Karel Ancerl, when he met the American 'cellist Rebecca Rust. Together with his wife Rebecca Rust, Friedrich Edelmann now plays many concerts in America, Europe and Japan including radio- and TV-productions. As a teacher he gave courses for bassoon and chambermusic in Venezuela, U.S.A., Moscow and Tokyo. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany supported concert-tours of solo chambermusic by Friedrich Edelmann and Rebecca Rust to Prague, Warsaw, Sczecin, Gdansk, Tunis, Rabat and Casablanca as well as to Japan (Concerts for the Memory of the victims of the Hanshin-Earthquake in 1995 and as soloists together with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra). Records are published by: "MARCO POLO" (Villa-Lobos together with flutist Emmanuel Pahud), "TUDOR" (Mercadante together with flutist A. Nicolet) and "BAYER RECORDS" (works composed for F. Edelmann by Karl Michael Komma,). The composers Jan Koetsier, Otmar Mácha, Jan Novák, Karl Michael Komma and Harald Genzmer composed solo works for Friedrich Edelmann and Rebecca Rust. In February 1998 he was a member of the "Nagano Winter Orchestra" under Seiji Ozawa with opening concerts of the Winter-Olympics in Nagano, Japan. In July-August 1998 he was the coach of the woodwinds of the World-Orchestra of Jeunesses Musicales in Taipei and, together with Rebecca Rust, the soloist in the first public performance of Karl Michael Komma's "Der Tanz des Grossen Friedens" a Concerto Grosso for Bassoon, Cello, Piano and String Orchestra, in the "Opera City Concert Hall" in Tokyo. This composition was dedicated to the Emperor and Empress of Japan in celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako in 1993. Since 1992 regular concert-tours to Japan with concerts in Tokyo, Nagoya, Sapporo, Kobe, Sendai, Mito, Hiroshima, Miyako (Okinawa) and the Imperial Palace in Tokyo are on Friedrich Edelmann’s concert schedule. On his recent tour to Japan he concertized together with Rebecca Rust in Sapporo, Tokyo, Naruto (Tokushima), Shishikui and Kawagoe and gave a lecture (demonstration) at an Elementary School in Ohme (Tokyo) (in October 2003, sponsored by VOLKSWAGEN JAPAN and ANA, All Nippon Airways). O1C Performances: Premiere Performances & Rediscoveries Clarinet Trios by Beethoven & Brahms German Greats |
