Sabine Meyer is a committed chamber music player and, in addition to her work with the Trio di Clarone which she founded in 1983, she has performed with Barbara Hendricks, Bruno Canino, Aloys Kontarsky, Heinrich Schiff, Gidon Kremer, Sandor Vegh, the Alban Berg Quartett, the Cleveland Quartet, the Hagen Quartet and the Vienna String Sextet. In 1988 she formed the Bläserensemble Sabine Meyer which performs regularly in Europe and Japan. They have recorded several discs for EMI including Mozart's Gran Partita, the Harmoniemusik from Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, and works by Dvorak and Myslivecek. In 2001/2002 a European tour is planned with the Tokyo String Quartet.
Summer Festival appearances in 2000 included Edinburgh, Rheingau, and Lockenhaus. In addition, she was "Artist in Residence" at the Lucerne Summer Festival, where she performed a wide variety of music including a "Tribute to Benny Goodman" and the world premiere of Hosokawa’s Clarinet Concerto with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. The 2000/2001 season includes concerts with the Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, as well as many recital and chamber music appearances.
Sabine Meyer records exclusively for EMI Classics with repertoire ranging from classical to contemporary. In 1993 she was awarded the "Artist of the Year" by Klassik Komm for her recording of the Stamitz concertos with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and Iona Brown. Her discography is incredibly rich and varied. In September 1999, she released A Night at the Opera, which features a selection of opera transcriptions by Mozart, Rossini, Weber and Verdi, with Franz Welser-Möst conducting the Zürich Opera Orchestra. In May 1998 she released a disc featuring Copland’s Clarinet Concerto, Stravinsky’s Ebony Concerto and a selection of Benny Goodman arrangements with Ingo Metzmacher and the Bamberg Symphonic Orchestra. In April 1999 she released an album featuring Brahms’ Clarinet Quintet with the Alban Berg Quartett, followed by a new recording of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto and works by Takemitsu and Debussy, with Abbado in October 1999. The previous month, in September 1999, she released a disc of works by Beethoven including the Octet, Op 103, Rondino, and Septet Op.20 with the Bläserensemble Sabine Meyer. In May 2000 she released Reger’s clarinet quintet and the string sextet with the Wiener Streichsextett. Her most recent disc, released in September 2000, is called Modern works for Wind Ensemble and includes octets by Denisov, Obst and Catiglioni, as well as pieces by Raskatov and Hosokawa. Future plans include a disc of Mendelssohn, Weber and Baermann to be recorded in May 2001.
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