Jan Schultsz
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Jan Schultsz was born in Amsterdam, where he first took piano
lessons at the age of 4 and commenced horn
lessons at the age of 10. Emphasis was laid on both these instruments during his student years under Jan Wijn
and Adriaan van Woudenberg at the Sweelinck Conservatoire in Amsterdam
. In 1986, he removed to Basle, where he continued his studies of the horn among other instruments at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
under Thomas Mueller and at the Conservatoire in Lausanne under Bruno Schneider. He was finally awarded the Premier Prix de Virtuosité and played in numerous orchestras, such as the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Netherlands Radio Orchestra Hilversum, in the Basle Orchestras, the Camerata in Berne
and in various Baroque ensembles such as the Concerto Cologne, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and the Clementi Consort.
Jan Schultsz ended his studies of the pianoforte at the Basle Conservatoire under Lasszlo Gyimesi and Peter Efler. As a concert pianist, he gave concerts together with singers and instrumentalists in many countries of Europe; he was a co-founder of the Basle Chamber Ensemble and appeared as a soloist with the Basle Orchestras and with various chamber orchestras. He accompanied the master courses of Hermann Baumann
and Paul Tortelier
and lead the Lieder and Oratorio
Class at the Bruckner Conservatoire in Linz
. In 1996, the young artist gave his debut at the Carnegie Hall
, New York
with the Finnish Cellist, Marko Ylönen. He has also collaborated at the Zurich Opera House
. At the present time, he is a professor at the Winterthur Conservatoire.
From 1991 to 1995, Jan Schultsz absolved studies for the position of orchestral leader in Basle, Berne
and Zurich
under Horst Stein
, Manfred Honeck
, Wilfried Boettcher and Ralf Weikert. He took part in courses on conducting under Jorma Panula
in Helsinki
and under Sir Edward Downes in the Kyrill Konrashin Conductors Master Classes in the Netherlands
. He has also studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatoire under Prof. I. A. Musin. The young conductor repeatedly enjoyed successes in working with youth and conservatoire orchestras.
He has appeared as a guest conductor with many orchestras in Europe. In this position, he has conducted the Chamber Orchestra in Basle, Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich
, the Basle Symphony Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg
, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra
, the Hungarian State Orchestra in Budapest
, the Orchestre de Chambre of Geneva
, the RTL Orchestra in Luxembourg
, the Orchestra Company of Bienne, the City of Winterthur Orchestra
, the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Hilversum and the Orchestre de Chambre at Neuchâtel at which he has been retained as musical director as from 1999 until his retirement in 2009. He was engaged as orchestral leader at the Norsk Opera in Oslo
and conducted the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest
. Jan Schultsz has also contributed to numerous radio and television programmes. He has won several awards and scholarships.
Jan Schultsz has recorded several recordings of works by composers such as Bellini
, Delibes
, Mendelssohn
, Mozart
, Rossini
, Schumann
and Verdi
. He often works with soloist such as Elena Mosuc, Jenő Jandó
, Birgit Remmert and Felix Renggli.
Maestro Schultsz was appointed as jury for the final of the first International Altenburg Competition in 1996.
Maestro Schultsz recently toured Asia with the Gstaad Menuhin Festival Orchestra and soloist Lynnette Seah
, as a part of the orchestra and festival's 50th anniversary celebration.
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
lessons at the age of 4 and commenced horn
Horn (instrument)
The horn is a brass instrument consisting of about of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. A musician who plays the horn is called a horn player ....
lessons at the age of 10. Emphasis was laid on both these instruments during his student years under Jan Wijn
Jan Wijn
Jan Wijn is a Dutch pianist and piano pedagogue.Wijn studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory under Cornelius Berkhout, where he received his diploma in 1955. He then studied under Bela Siki in Switzerland and Alicia de Larrocha in Spain. In 1960, Jan Wijn won first place in the "concours van Ourense"...
and Adriaan van Woudenberg at the Sweelinck Conservatoire in Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
. In 1986, he removed to Basle, where he continued his studies of the horn among other instruments at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis is a music academy and research institution located in Basel, Switzerland, and focusing on early music and historically informed performance....
under Thomas Mueller and at the Conservatoire in Lausanne under Bruno Schneider. He was finally awarded the Premier Prix de Virtuosité and played in numerous orchestras, such as the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Netherlands Radio Orchestra Hilversum, in the Basle Orchestras, the Camerata in Berne
Berne
The city of Bern or Berne is the Bundesstadt of Switzerland, and, with a population of , the fourth most populous city in Switzerland. The Bern agglomeration, which includes 43 municipalities, has a population of 349,000. The metropolitan area had a population of 660,000 in 2000...
and in various Baroque ensembles such as the Concerto Cologne, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and the Clementi Consort.
Jan Schultsz ended his studies of the pianoforte at the Basle Conservatoire under Lasszlo Gyimesi and Peter Efler. As a concert pianist, he gave concerts together with singers and instrumentalists in many countries of Europe; he was a co-founder of the Basle Chamber Ensemble and appeared as a soloist with the Basle Orchestras and with various chamber orchestras. He accompanied the master courses of Hermann Baumann
Hermann Baumann
Hermann Baumann is a virtuoso horn player, teacher and composer.After starting his musical career as a singer and jazz drummer he switched to horn at the age of 17...
and Paul Tortelier
Paul Tortelier
Paul Tortelier was a French cellist and composer.Tortelier was born in Paris, the son of a cabinet maker with Breton roots. He was encouraged to play the cello by his father Joseph and mother Marguerite , and at 12 he entered the Paris Conservatoire. He studied the cello there with Gérard Hekking...
and lead the Lieder and Oratorio
Oratorio
An oratorio is a large musical composition including an orchestra, a choir, and soloists. Like an opera, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an ensemble, various distinguishable characters, and arias...
Class at the Bruckner Conservatoire in Linz
Linz
Linz is the third-largest city of Austria and capital of the state of Upper Austria . It is located in the north centre of Austria, approximately south of the Czech border, on both sides of the river Danube. The population of the city is , and that of the Greater Linz conurbation is about...
. In 1996, the young artist gave his debut at the Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
with the Finnish Cellist, Marko Ylönen. He has also collaborated at the Zurich Opera House
Zurich Opera House
Opernhaus Zürich is an opera house in the Swiss city of Zurich. It has been the home of the Zurich Opera since 1891.- History :...
. At the present time, he is a professor at the Winterthur Conservatoire.
From 1991 to 1995, Jan Schultsz absolved studies for the position of orchestral leader in Basle, Berne
Berne
The city of Bern or Berne is the Bundesstadt of Switzerland, and, with a population of , the fourth most populous city in Switzerland. The Bern agglomeration, which includes 43 municipalities, has a population of 349,000. The metropolitan area had a population of 660,000 in 2000...
and Zurich
Zürich
Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...
under Horst Stein
Horst Stein
Horst Walter Stein was a German conductor.- Biography :...
, Manfred Honeck
Manfred Honeck
Manfred Honeck is an Austrian conductor, the son of Otto and Frieda Honeck, from a family of nine children. One of his brothers is the Vienna Philharmonic leader Rainer Honeck....
, Wilfried Boettcher and Ralf Weikert. He took part in courses on conducting under Jorma Panula
Jorma Panula
Jorma Panula is a Finnish conductor, composer, and professor of conducting.Panula is a graduate of the Sibelius Academy, where he studied the organ, church music and conducting...
in Helsinki
Helsinki
Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...
and under Sir Edward Downes in the Kyrill Konrashin Conductors Master Classes in the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
. He has also studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatoire under Prof. I. A. Musin. The young conductor repeatedly enjoyed successes in working with youth and conservatoire orchestras.
He has appeared as a guest conductor with many orchestras in Europe. In this position, he has conducted the Chamber Orchestra in Basle, Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich
Zürich
Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...
, the Basle Symphony Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg
Salzburg
-Population development:In 1935, the population significantly increased when Salzburg absorbed adjacent municipalities. After World War II, numerous refugees found a new home in the city. New residential space was created for American soldiers of the postwar Occupation, and could be used for...
, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra
Vienna Chamber Orchestra
The Vienna Chamber Orchestra is an Austrian chamber orchestra based at the Vienna Konzerthaus....
, the Hungarian State Orchestra in Budapest
Budapest
Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
, the Orchestre de Chambre of Geneva
Geneva
Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...
, the RTL Orchestra in Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the North as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland in the south...
, the Orchestra Company of Bienne, the City of Winterthur Orchestra
Orchester Musikkollegium Winterthur
The Orchester Musikkollegium Winterthur is a symphony orchestra based in Winterthur, Switzerland. The oldest orchestra in Switzerland, it was founded in 1875 as the Stadtorchester Winterthur. The Musikkollegium itself as an organisation out of religious roots to that time was founded in 1629...
, the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Hilversum and the Orchestre de Chambre at Neuchâtel at which he has been retained as musical director as from 1999 until his retirement in 2009. He was engaged as orchestral leader at the Norsk Opera in Oslo
Oslo
Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...
and conducted the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest
Budapest
Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
. Jan Schultsz has also contributed to numerous radio and television programmes. He has won several awards and scholarships.
Jan Schultsz has recorded several recordings of works by composers such as Bellini
Vincenzo Bellini
Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was an Italian opera composer. His greatest works are I Capuleti ed i Montecchi , La sonnambula , Norma , Beatrice di Tenda , and I puritani...
, Delibes
Léo Delibes
Clément Philibert Léo Delibes was a French composer of ballets, operas, and other works for the stage...
, Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...
, Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
, Rossini
Gioacchino Rossini
Gioachino Antonio Rossini was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces...
, Schumann
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....
and Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century...
. He often works with soloist such as Elena Mosuc, Jenő Jandó
Jeno Jandó
Jenő Jandó is a Hungarian pianist and Professor of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary.He studied piano at the Liszt Academy with Katalin Nemes and Pál Kadosa, later going on to win many major international piano competitions, including the Georges Cziffra and Ciani Piano...
, Birgit Remmert and Felix Renggli.
Maestro Schultsz was appointed as jury for the final of the first International Altenburg Competition in 1996.
Maestro Schultsz recently toured Asia with the Gstaad Menuhin Festival Orchestra and soloist Lynnette Seah
Lynnette Seah
Lynnette Seah Mei Tsing is an internationally acclaimed Singaporean violinist serving as co-leader of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra as the only musician to have performed full-time with the SSO since 1979 - a position she is holding on at the Symphony together with Alexander Souptel.She is...
, as a part of the orchestra and festival's 50th anniversary celebration.