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Born in Stuttgart, Germany
Member since 01.05.2006
Biography
The clarinet was Alexander Bader’s »reward« for passing the qualifying examination as a young student in the piano division of Berlin’s Hochschule der Künste. The glint of silver on black wood and the mellow, warm sound captivated him from the very beginning, and so, along with his main instrument, he also studied clarinet at the HdK with Manfred Preis and Peter Rieckhoff. After receiving his orchestra diploma, he transferred into the soloists’ class taught by Wolfgang Meyer at Karlsruhe’s Staatliche Hochschule für Musik. In 1990 he became a member of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, and together with its other wind soloists he was awarded the 1990 Echo-Klassik prize.
In 2002 he joined Berlin’s Komische Oper orchestra as principal clarinettist, while also playing regularly with other orchestras, including the Bavarian State Opera and the Philharmonic of Munich. Bader became a member of the Berliner Philharmoniker in 2006. Since 1994, he has also had a keen interest in historically informed performance practice, and he appears regularly with such ensembles as Vienna's Concentus Musicus, the Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble, and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin. Since the 2006/2007 season he has also been a member of the Scharoun Ensemble.
Ensembles of the Berliner Philharmoniker
