Maurice Steger
Recorder player Maurice Steger ranks as one of the great virtuosi on his instrument among figures on the contemporary scene. His range of activities has been unusually wide, encompassing both unusual repertoire and projects such as children's music. He has also been active as a conductor.
Steger was born in Winterthur, Switzerland, in 1971. Pedro Memelsdorff and Kees Boeke were among his recorder teachers, and he studied conducting with Marcus Creed. Steger made a splash with a Karajan Prize in 2002 and began to find soloist bookings with the top Baroque ensembles in Europe, including the Akademie für alte Musik Berlin, the Accademia Bizantina, and Musica Antiqua Köln. Steger also appeared with modern ensembles, such as the English Chamber Orchestra and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra. Steger's list of prestigious collaborators is long and includes vocalists Thomas Quasthoff, Dorothea Röschmann, and Cecilia Bartoli, as well as violinist Hilary Hahn. His accompanists in his numerous solo recitals include Naoki Kitaya and the Continuo Consort, Markus Märkl, and Alexander Weimann. Steger's conducting activities in the 2010s increasingly ranged beyond the Baroque and have involved ensembles with no emphasis on Baroque music. Among these ensembles were the Taipei Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Radiophilharmonie in Hannover, and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra.
His solo discography is large and has mostly involved the Claves label (1994-2003), and after that Harmonia Mundi. In 2019, he released Mr Handel's Dinner: Music for the Opera Intermissions on Harmonia Mundi. Many of his projects aimed to reproduce a specific musical venue or juncture rather than simply covering repertory for its own sake.
Steger has also created a project centered on a figure called Tino Flautino, a set of recorder-oriented fairytales for children, that has been marketed with books and accompanying materials allowing children to play along with what they hear.
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Discography
13 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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A Tribute to Bach
Maurice Steger, La Cetra Barockorchester Basel
Classical - Released by Berlin Classics on 8 Sep 2023
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Vivaldi: Concerti per flauto
Maurice Steger, I Barocchisti and Diego Fasolis
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 6 Oct 2014
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Mr Handel's Dinner
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 26 Apr 2019
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Mr. Corelli in London: Recorder Concertos, La Follia, after Corelli's op.5
Maurice Steger, The English Concert, Laurence Cummings
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 13 Apr 2010
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Souvenirs d'Italie
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 4 Nov 2016
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Sammartini: Sonatas for Recorder and Continuo
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 6 Nov 2007
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Venezia 1625
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 21 Aug 2009
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Musique baroque italienne pour flûte à bec
Classical - Released by Claves Records on 1 Jan 1998
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Una Follia di Napoli (Concerti, Sinfonie per flauto, 1725)
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 23 Oct 2012
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Concertos pour flûte à bec
Classical - Released by Claves Records on 1 Jan 2000
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Tea for Two
Maurice Steger, Davide Cabassi, Orchestra della Svizzera italiana & Howard Griffiths
Symphonies - Released by Berlin Classics on 26 Apr 2013
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Bernstein: Piano & Chamber Music
Benyamin Nuss, Wayne Marshall, Maria Kliegel, Maurice Steger
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin on 16 Nov 2018
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An English Collection
Classical - Released by Claves Records on 1 Jan 1996
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo