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His violinistic talent runs in the family: Raimar Orlovsky, who has played the instrument since he was four, has four siblings, and two of them are also professional musicians. He studied at Universität der Künste Berlin, obtained there his Vioin Diploma and trained by Herbert Koloski, Werner Heutling, Thomas Brandis and Walter Forchert.
After his studies, Raimar Orlovsky, played in various ensembles, including the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. From 1993 to 2002, he was a member of the Apos Quartet of Berlin.
Raimar Orlovsky joined the Berliner Philharmoniker in 1991, where he plays nd violin. He is one of the founding members of the Berliner Barock Solisten, a Berliner Philharmoniker ensemble that has dedicated itself since 1995 to performing music of the 17th and 18th centuries. With Concerto Melante, another Berliner Philharmoniker chamber ensemble which performs on historical instruments, he plays early music on the Baroque violin.
Since 1993, Raimar Orlovsky has been passing on his experience of historically-informed performance practice to young musicians as a teacher in the Philharmoniker’s Orchestra Academy, with international youth orchestras and in summer music academies. In addition, he is active as a musical scholar, and has rediscovered and edited previously-lost works by Baroque composers, especially Georg Philipp Telemann. In his free time, he pursues a variety of hobbies: golf and wine-growing are his favourite forms of relaxation. He plays an instrument built by Nicolas LUPOT, Paris 1824 ex Kussmaul. |
