He is a trumpet and horn
player, conductor, teacher and researcher born in Sosa, Saxony,
Germany.He began learning music when he was
5 and played the trumpet from the time he was 14.He studied at the Hochschule fur Musik in Leipzig
which he followed by becoming a soloist at the Halle's
Handel Festival Orchestra and the Dresden Philharmonic.He founded three ensembles which
concentrated on wind instrument music from the 17th and 18th
centuries played on period instruments.They were the Leipziger
Bach-Collegium, The Ludwig Guettler Wind Ensemble and the Virtuosi Saxonae.From 1972 to 1990 he was a professor at the Dresden Hochschule fur Musik and regularly taught masterclasses and at the Weimar International Music
Seminar.He is known as the
"King of Trumpets" and "the Pavarotti of wind
instruments" and has received many awards for all aspects of his
musical career as well as for his involvement in the restoration of the Frauenkirche in Dresden
where he uses his abilities and knowledge learned while studying for an
architectural degree.To date
he has made over 50 recordings as a soloist, member of ensembles and
orchestras and as a conductor.He is currently a member of the
Academy
of
Arts and the Cultural Senate
of Saxony.
Ludwig Guttler Brass Ensemble recordings
John Adson
Courtly Masquing Ayres Nos. 18, 19 and 20
Capriccio 10 146 (CD:
English Brass Music of the 17th Century)
