Ernst SCHLADER

Historical Clarinette Instruments

Ernst Schlader was born in Gmunden and completed several degrees (clarinet, organ, musicology, Early Music) in Linz, The Hague, Leiden, and Frankfurt am Main.

From 2007 to 2016, he led Germany’s only major program for historical clarinet instruments at the State University of Music in Trossingen and was appointed honorary professor in 2014. Since 2009, he has taught as a lecturer in musicology at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main, and since 2012 as a senior lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz.

Ernst Schlader has contributed to over 45 CD recordings (2014 Pasticcio Prize from Radio Ö1 for the complete recording of the sonatas by J. B. Vanhal) and received the Talent Promotion Award for Science from the State of Upper Austria in 2012 for his musicological dissertation on the composer Georg Pasterwiz.

He is a member and principal clarinetist of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and performs regularly with ensembles such as Ars Antiqua Austria, the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Concerto Köln, the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, and Collegium 1704 Prague.

He serves on the academic advisory board of the Anton Bruckner Institute in Linz.