Claudia Stein, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt & David Robert Coleman
Biography Claudia Stein, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt & David Robert Coleman
Claudia Stein
studied flute at the Dresden Music Academy with Eckart Haupt and piano with Heidrun Richter. At the age of 23 she was already appointed by Daniel Barenboim principal flute of the Berlin State Orchestra (Berliner Staatskapelle).
She has appeared with numerous international orchestras and has plays regularly in the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra.
Claudia Stein is a teacher and mentor in the academy of the Berlin State Orchestra and as of 2015 she teaches in the Barenboim Said Academy Berlin. Her pupils have gone on to win positions in prestigious orchestras in Marseille, Düsseldorf, Kassel and Berlin. Claudia is also active in the music kindergarten Berlin, a unique project initiated by Barenboim. She worked on some of the pedagogical ideas leading to its foundation.
A central element to Claudia's extensive solo repertoire is new music. Composers such as John Roysek, Sebastian Undisz, David Robert Coleman, Michael Kleemann and Gisbert Näther have written works especially for her.
Claudia Stein appears regularly as a soloist and chamber-music partner in major European festivals as well as in Israel, Japan and America.
David Robert Coleman
was born in London in 1969. He studied the piano, musicology and conducting at the Royal College of Music, London and King’s College Cambridge. He has worked as an assistant conductor to numerous conductors, including Pierre Boulez, Simon Rattle and Hans Zender. He was engaged by Maestro Kent Nagano as personal assistant and associate conductor at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich from 2006-9.
His conducting career has continued from strength to strength over the last ten years, with appearances as a guest conductor with orchestras including the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, Lausanne Sinfonietta, Southwest German Radio Orchestra, Youth Orchestra of the Americas and Ensemble Modern Frankfurt.
Coleman’s compositions have been commissioned and performed by ensembles such as the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Frankfurt Opera, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Jena Philharmonic and Halle Philharmonic.
