Eric Hoeprich
Eric Hoeprich is among the world's leading specialists in the historical clarinet. An educator, scholar, and instrument builder, as well as a musician, Hoeprich is a founding member of the influential Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century in the Netherlands.
Hoeprich was born in Baltimore on September 5, 1955. In 1976, he earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard, majoring in philosophy, but then he switched to music and went on for a master's degree at the Royal Conservatory of Music in the Hague, receiving his degree in 1982. By that time, he had already become interested in the burgeoning historical performance movement in the Netherlands. In 1981, he was one of the founding players of the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, conducted by recorder player Frans Brüggen. With that group, he performed and recorded Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581, using the rare basset clarinet for which the work was intended. Hoeprich has performed with many leading early music ensembles around Europe and North America, under such directors as Roger Norrington, Christopher Hogwood, and Philippe Herreweghe. He founded two wind ensembles of his own, Nachtmusique (reviving the 18th century tradition of Harmoniemusik wind performance) and the Stadler Trio, consisting of three basset horns and memorializing Anton Stadler, the artist for whom Mozart wrote his late clarinet works.
Hoeprich made his recording debut in 1988 on the Philips label, with a Mozart album with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. He has recorded more than 15 albums, mostly for the Glossa label; these have often investigated lesser-known composers for the clarinet such as Bernhard Crusell and Franz Krommer. The latter appeared on a 2020 album on Glossa, also featuring Carl Maria von Weber's Clarinet Quintet in B flat major, Op. 34. Hoeprich is the author of The Clarinet (Yale University Press, 2008), and he teaches at Indiana University and the Paris Conservatory. He lives in London, where he maintains a collection of more than 100 antique clarinets.
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Discography
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Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A / Clarinet Quintet in A
Eric Hoeprich, Orchestra Of The 18th Century, Frans Brüggen
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1/01/1988
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Weber & Kurpinski: Clarinet Concertos
Eric Hoeprich, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Guy Van Waas
Classical - Released by Glossa on 2/10/2020
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Weber, Krommer & Baermann: Clarinet Quintets
Eric Hoeprich, London Haydn Quartet
Chamber Music - Released by Glossa on 3/07/2020
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mozart: Wind Concertos
Eric Hoeprich, Frank de Bruine, Teunis van der Zwart, Orchestra Of The 18th Century, Frans Brüggen, Kenneth Montgomery
Classical - Released by Glossa on 6/08/2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bernhard Crusell : 3 Quartets for Clarinet & Strings
Eric Hoeprich, Catherine Manson, John Crockatt, Jonathan Manson, London Haydn Quartet
Chamber Music - Released by Glossa on 2/06/2017
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Concertos pour clarinette & orchestre (Forgotten Treasures - Volume 1) (Bernhard Crusell)
Classical - Released by Ars Produktion on 1/01/2006
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Mozart: Oboe Quartet, Clarinet Quartet, String Quartet K.575
Eric Hoeprich, Marc Schachman, The Artaria Quartet
Quartets - Released by harmonia mundi on 10/01/1994
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Mozart: Complete Wind Concerti, Volume 1- Woodwind
Eric Hoeprich, Dennis Godburn, Marc Schachman
Concertos - Released by Musical Heritage Society on 1/01/1996
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622, Adagio in B-Flat Major, K. 411, Maurerische Trauermusik, K. 477
Eric Hoeprich, Frans Brüggen, Orquesta del Siglo XVIII
Classical - Released by Send - Alia on 19/10/2001
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo