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Reiner Wehle, born in 1954 in Kiel, Germany, studied the clarinet with Hans

Deinzer in Hannover and Guy Deplus in Paris.

In the course of his career, he has been awarded numerous international

prizes, for example at competitions in Prague, Colmar, Martigny, Toulon and

at the ARD Competition in Munich. In 1979 he was winner of the First Prize

at the “Deutscher Musikwettbewerb” in Bonn.

Reiner Wehle has held engagements in various prestigious orchestras

including the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra (with Sergio Celibidache) and

the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra at Hannover. He is a member

of the “Lucerne Festival Orchestra”, playing under the direction of Claudio

Abbado.

As a soloist, he has performed with many orchestras in a host of different

countries (e.g. the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the Deutsches

Symphonieorchester Berlin, the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Hannover, and

the Tivoli Orchestra of Copenhagen, amongst others).

He is an active chamber musician and has played worldwide with the Trio di

Clarone, the Bläserensemble Sabine Meyer, the Ensemble Kontraste and the

Trio Integral.

Reiner Wehle has made several CD recordings on the EMI Classics,

Thorofon, ambitus and Novalis labels. He has twice received the highly

acclaimed “Echo Prize” for the CD of the year (1999 and 2000).

Since 1992, he has held a professorship at the “Musikhochschule Lübeck”

together with his wife, Sabine Meyer. As well as giving a large number of

masterclasses in different countries (e.g. in Germany, Italy, Switzerland,

China, Bulgaria and Israel), he has been a jury member at numerous highlyranked

music competitions.