"Working with Bill Murray taught me that classical music doesn’t need an explanation." - Jan Vogler

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Jan Vogler - Cellist
Living the Classical Life: Episode 76

This episode introduces you to Jan Vogler, distinguished cellist and Europe's most innovative Festspiel Intendant. Irrepressibly optimistic, Jan explains how his upbringing in communist Germany fostered a deep understanding of freedom and how legendary cellist Heinrich Schiff taught him to be freely himself. In Jan’s musical universe, Schumann on gut strings hobnobs with Sting, and his cello is seated next to Bill Murray, which leads to a very eccentric collaboration between two like-minded free spirits.

Title cards:

1. Distinguished cellist Jan Vogler regularly performs with the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago, Boston, Pittsburgh and Montréal Symphony Orchestras, and the Mariinsky Orchestra, among others. He has collaborated with conductors, premiered multiple works by contemporary composers, and published over 20 CDs.

2. Vogler is Director of the renowned Dresden Music Festival and Artistic Director of the Moritzburg Festival. He has received the European Award for Culture and the Erich-Kästner Award, and collaborated with actor Bill Murray for their joint musical-literary project “Bill Murray, Jan Vogler & Friends – New Worlds.”

3. Jan Vogler Violoncello
Ivor Bolton Conductor
Dresden Festival Orchestra

Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra
in A minor, Op. 129
Robert Schumann

Courtesy of Dresden Music Festival (musikfestspiele.com)