Richard Duven

Born 1958 in Köln

Member 1986 - 2021

 

Richard Duven

Richard Duven was born in 1958 in Cologne. He studied with Daniel Cahen in Wuppertal and with Wolfgang Boettcher in Berlin. He won many prizes, among them 1st prize in 1983 at the Germany Academic Competition in Munich, as well as in Berlin in 1984. Richard Duven has been a member of the Berlin Philharmonic since 1986, and beyond this, of the well-known "Scharoun Ensemble", with which he has made numerous recordings, among them a new recording of Franz Schubert's Trout Quintet with Alfred Brendel. In the meantime, Duven has made a name for himself through his many performances of contemporary music