ALBUMA Tribute to BachMaurice Steger & La Cetra Barockorchester Basel
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ALBUMA Tribute to BachMaurice Steger & La Cetra Barockorchester Basel
ALBUMMr Handel's DinnerMaurice Steger & La Cetra
ALBUMBernstein: Piano & Chamber MusicBenyamin Nuss, Wayne Marshall, Maria Kliegel & Maurice Steger
ALBUMBaroque TwitterNúria Rial & Maurice Steger
ALBUMSouvenirs d'ItalieMaurice Steger
ALBUMVivaldi: Concerti per flautoMaurice Steger, I Barocchisti & Diego Fasolis
ALBUMTea for TwoMaurice Steger, Davide Cabassi, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana & Howard Griffiths
ALBUMUna follia di NapoliMaurice Steger
ALBUMMr. Corelli in London: Recorder Concertos, La Follia, after Corelli's op.5Maurice Steger, The English Concert & Laurence Cummings
ALBUMPer Il FlautoSabrina Frey, Ars Musica Zürich & Maurice Steger
ALBUMVenezia 1625Maurice Steger
ALBUMVenezia 1625Maurice Steger
ALBUMSammartini: Sonatas for Recorder and ContinuoMaurice Steger
ALBUMTelemann: Blockflöten-Werke (Suites & Concerto pour flûte à bec et orchestre)Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Maurice Steger
ALBUMTelemann: Solos & Trio Sonatas for RecorderContinuo Consort & Maurice Steger
ALBUMVivaldi: ConcertosDiego Fasolis, I Barocchisti & Maurice Steger
ALBUMLa Castella: Italian Baroque Virtuoso Instrumental MusicContinuo Consort, Maurice Steger & Naoki Kitaya
ALBUMAn Italian Ground: Baroque Instrumental Music in the Italian StyleMaurice Steger, Naoki Kitaya, Brian Feehan & Lorenz Duftschmid
About Maurice Steger
Artist Biography
Recorder player Maurice Steger ranks as one of the great virtuosi on his instrument among figures on the contemporary scene. His range of activities has been unusually wide, encompassing both unusual repertoire and projects such as children's music. He has also been active as a conductor.
Steger was born in Winterthur, Switzerland, in 1971. Pedro Memelsdorff and Kees Boeke were among his recorder teachers, and he studied conducting with Marcus Creed. Steger made a splash with a Karajan Prize in 2002 and began to find soloist bookings with the top Baroque ensembles in Europe, including the Akademie für alte Musik Berlin, the Accademia Bizantina, and Musica Antiqua Köln. Steger also appeared with modern ensembles, such as the English Chamber Orchestra and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra. Steger's list of prestigious collaborators is long and includes vocalists Thomas Quasthoff, Dorothea Röschmann, and Cecilia Bartoli, as well as violinist Hilary Hahn. His accompanists in his numerous solo recitals include Naoki Kitaya and the Continuo Consort, Markus Märkl, and Alexander Weimann. Steger's conducting activities in the 2010s increasingly ranged beyond the Baroque and have involved ensembles with no emphasis on Baroque music. Among these ensembles were the Taipei Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Radiophilharmonie in Hannover, and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra.
His solo discography is large and has mostly involved the Claves label (1994-2003), and after that Harmonia Mundi. In 2019, he released Mr Handel's Dinner: Music for the Opera Intermissions on Harmonia Mundi. Many of his projects aimed to reproduce a specific musical venue or juncture rather than simply covering repertory for its own sake.
Steger has also created a project centered on a figure called Tino Flautino, a set of recorder-oriented fairytales for children, that has been marketed with books and accompanying materials allowing children to play along with what they hear. ~ James Manheim
Hometown
Switzerland
Genre
Classical
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