Albrecht Mayer, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra & Andris Poga
Biography Albrecht Mayer, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra & Andris Poga
Albrecht Mayer
began his career in 1990 as the solo oboist of the Bamberg Symphony. In 1992, he accepted the equivalent position with the Berlin Philharmonic. In addition to his solo career, Albrecht Mayer appears regularly as a conductor. Albrecht Mayer’s transcriptions of pieces by Bach and Handel have even found a place in the German pop charts. In 2006, 2008, and 2010, Albrecht Mayer was awarded an ECHO Klassik Prize; and in December 2006, he received the E.T.A Hoffmann Cultural Prize of the city of Bamberg. In 2013, he was taken into the Gramophone ‘Hall of Fame’ and was awarded the Bavarian Cultural Prize. Albrecht Mayer plays an oboe and an oboe d’amore built by the Mönnig Brothers.
The Latvian National Symphony Orchestra
is one of the cornerstones of Latvian national culture, its history spans almost a century. The LNSO is a six-time winner of the Latvian Grand Music Award. Since 2013, the music director of the LNSO is maestro Andris Poga, a conductor sought after by top orchestras from around the world. The orchestra’s most notable former music directors include Jānis Mediņš, Leonīds Vīgners, Edgars Tons, Vassily Sinaisky, Olari Elts, and Karel Mark Chichon. Guntis Kuzma has been the orchestra’s conductor since the 2014/15 season and is the orchestra’s former principal clarinetist.
