Jan Vogler |

Jan Vogler

Jan Vogler was born in Berlin in 1964. After the construction of the wall, the family remained in the eastern part of the city, which was not a tragedy for the future quartermaster of the two forums, since Vogler’s ancestors came from the eastern part of Germany, many of whom played music in Saxony.

At the age of twenty, he became the first concertmaster in the cello group at the State Saxon Chapel. Since 1997 he has been performing in this group as a soloist.

Today he is one of the most famous German cellists. Collaborates with leading contemporary composers and performers.

He is the artistic director of the Chamber Music Festival in Moritzburg (near Dresden), and since October 2008 he has been the intendant of the Dresden Music Festival.

In the 2009-2010 season, Vogler continues to collaborate with pianist Martin Stadtfeld. He also frequently performs with the pianist Hélène Grimaud. He regularly performs works by contemporary composers. Took part in the premiere of Udo Zimmermann’s Cello Concerto “Songs from the Island” (with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra). In 2010, at the opening of the Music Triennial in Cologne, Jan Vogler performed Tigran Mansuryan’s Cello Concerto with the West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, and also premiered John Harbison’s Cello Concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

The musician considers his performances with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in New York, as well as in Dresden at the opening of the Frauenkirche in November 2005, where the musicians presented the work of Colin Matthews to the audience, as the apogee of his career.

In 2003, Vogler began a successful collaboration with Sony Classical, recording the symphonic poem “Don Quixote” and “Romance” by Richard Strauss, accompanied by the orchestra of the Saxon State Capella under the direction of Fabio Luisi. The fruitful result of this collaboration was also recordings of Dvořák’s cello concerto with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of David Robertson; two discs with works by Mozart, recorded with the musicians of the Moritzburg Festival; recordings of cello concertos by Samuel Barber, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Robert Schumann and Jörg Widmann.

Jan Vogler playing a 1721 Domenico Montagnana Ex-Hekking cello.

In Vogler’s piggy bank there are several works by contemporary composers written especially for him.

He performed several times in St. Petersburg with the orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre.

Photo by Mat Hennek