Eric hoeprich biography

Hoeprich was born in Baltimore on September 5, 1955.
BIOGRAPHY: Eric Hoeprich is one of the world's leading exponents of the historical clarinet.
For the past twenty-five years Eric Hoeprich has specialized in performing on the historical clarinet.

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Eric Hoeprich. The Clarinet

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Eric Hoeprich. The Clarinet. The Yale Musical Instrument Series. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008. 395 pp.: 102 illus., 40 musical exx. ISBN: 9780300102826. $40.00 (cloth).

The long-awaited book by Eric Hoeprich has finally arrived! Hoeprich, an American who lived in Amsterdam for over twenty years from the early 1980s, is well known as a superb player of the early clarinet and basset horn. He has made historical clarinets and basset horns, several of which he plays on recordings. In addition, he is a scholar of the early clarinet, a collector of historical clarinets, and a teacher at the Conservatoire national superieur de musique in Paris, the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague, and Indiana University, Bloomington. This extensive background provides a unique and invaluable perspective for his general history of the clarinet.

The Clarinet is organized into thirteen chapters stretching chronologically from the origins of the clarinet through the twe

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Biography Eric Hoeprich & members of the London Haydn Quartet

Eric Hoeprich
principal clarinet of the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century since its foundation, has specialized in performing on the historical clarinet, also being the owner of a large collection of 18th and 19th century instruments. On Glossa he has issued nearly a dozen of recordings, including the Mozart Clarinet Concerto directed by Frans Brüggen. His regular collaboration with the London Haydn Quartet lasts for many years now, with a referential recording of the Mozart and Brahms Quintets being an important highlight (Glossa, 2004).

For the past twenty-five years Eric Hoeprich has specialized in performing on the historical clarinet. His expertise as a musician, scholar and instrument maker allows for a unique approach to the solo clarinet repertoire of the 18th and 19th centuries.

As a founding member and principal clarinet of Frans Brüggen’s Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Hoeprich has performed frequently as a soloist with this orchestra, as well as with many of the major early music

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Biography Eric Hoeprich & London Haydn Quartet

Eric Hoeprich
is one of the world's leading exponents of the historical clarinet. He was born in Baltimore, MD, and has an honors degree in philosophy from Harvard. He teaches at the Paris Conservatoire, Indiana University’s Early Music Institute, and the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. For the past thirty years he has specialized in performing on the historical clarinet. His expertise as a musician, scholar, and instrument maker allows for a unique approach to the solo clarinet repertoire of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

As a founding member and principal clarinet of Frans Brüggen’s Orchestra of the 18th Century, Hoeprich has performed frequently as a soloist with this orchestra, as well as with many of the major early music ensembles in Europe, the United States, and Australia under conductors such as Nicholas McGegan, Roger Norrington, Christopher Hogwood, Philippe Herreweghe, and Jos van Immerseel. With Brüggen’s orchestra Hoeprich has recorded the basset clarinet version of the Mozart Clarinet Concert