Burkhard Glaetzner

After graduating from school in 1962, he took up oboe studies with Hans Werner Wätzig at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin.

[1] Two years later, as a member of the "Constituent Working Group", he was co-founder[2] and vice president of the Freie Akademie der Künste zu Leipzig [de], which was active until 2003.

[3] In 2013 he acted as chairman of the jury for wind chamber music at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.

[7] As most important[8] oboist of his country, he encouraged "the development of an oboe repertoire in the GDR and Eastern Europe (Emmanouil Vitakis):[9] He has performed more than 100 works, including oboe concertos by Reiner Bredemeyer, Georg Katzer, Friedrich Schenker, Christfried Schmidt, Friedrich Goldmann, Luca Lombardi, Gerhard Rosenfeld, Krzysztof Meyer and Toru Takemitsu.

[10] Awarded numerous prizes at international music competitions, Glaetzner founded in 1968 the ensemble "Auslos trio" together with Wolfgang Weber (violoncello) and Klaus Schließer (bassoon).

[12] For solo pieces Glaetzner also worked among others with Nicolaus A. Huber, Hans-Karsten Raecke [de], Karl Ottomar Treibmann and Max E. Keller together.

Concert tours followed through Europe, Asia and America as well while numerous music productions awarded with international prizes complemented his manifold activities as soloist, conductor and teacher.