Prof. Uwe Komischke

Prof. Uwe  Komischke
Photo: Alexander Burzik

Professor of Trumpet
Member of the Senate

Hochschulzentrum am Horn

uwe.komischke(at)hfm-weimar.de

www.uwe-komischke.com 

Uwe Komische, born in 1961 in North Rhine-Westphalia, began his musical career at the age of 18 as 1st principal trumpet in the Gelsenkirchen Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1983 he joined the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra in the same position under its principal conductor Sergiu Celibidache. Since 1994 Uwe Komischke has been teaching as professor for trumpet at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar.

As a soloist, Uwe Komischke can be heard regularly in numerous concerts at home and abroad. Composers such as Hans Stadlmair or Peter Michael Hamel have dedicated works to him, and at festivals he has repeatedly collaborated with renowned soloists such as Yuri Bashmet, Eduard Brunner or Vassily Lobanov, or ensembles such as the Moscow Soloists. 

In Europe he plays about 45 to 55 concerts per year with the organist Thorsten Pech in the instrumentation trumpet & organ. Since 2003 Uwe Komischke has been a member of the Westdeutsche Sinfonia Leverkusen. In addition, various CDs have been recorded. The recording of the Concerto in E-flat major by Josef Haydn with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra under Sergiu Celibidache caused a sensation. His performances of the 2nd Brandenburg Concerto by Johann Sebastian Bach also show his extraordinary class as a musician and instrumentalist.

The development of his own instrument series as well as his sheet music publications (EMR, Musikverlag Corpete, Edition DieWa) complete his biography. After master classes, exchange visits and joint concerts, he was awarded guest professorships by both SENZOKU GAKUEN University for Music in Tokyo and Aichi University oft he Arts in Nagoya. 

As part of his professorship at the Weimar Academy of Music, Komischke frequently organizes joint concert tours for the students in his class. Thus, much acclaimed concerts have already taken place in Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, Nagoya, Opole, Katowice, Warsaw, Malaga, Seville, as well as in many cities in Germany.

On the occasion of the Rectors' Conference of the German Music Academies (RKM) 2016 in Weimar, Uwe Komischke made his debut as a conductor with works by Richard Strauss and a cross-section of the opera Lohengrin by Richard Wagner. During these concert tours, he worked both as soloist and conductor with the Jiangsu Symphony Orchestra/Nanjing, the Shencheng Wind Orchestra/Shanghai, the Heilongjiang Opera House Orchestra/Harbin, the China Military Army Orchestra/Beijing and others. Since 2017, there have been regular concert tours there, meanwhile also as a welcome conductor.

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