Robert Ehrlich (musician)

Robert Ehrlich (* 1965 in Belfast) is a Northern Irish Recorder player and university professor. From October 2015 until 2019, he was Rector of the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin. Previously, he was Rector of the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig from 2006 to 2015.staff-detail-ad
== Life ==
Ehrlich was born in Belfast. He initially studied musicology at King's College, Cambridge. In 1990, he obtained a master's degree in ethnomusicology (Master of Philosophy|M.Phil.). He then studied recorder with Walter van Hauwe at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.
He performs worldwide as a soloist and in ensembles, including with the Academy of Ancient Music, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and The English Concert. His CD recordings include recordings of the Brandenburg Concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach in three different pitches with Riccardo Chailly (a'=443 Hz),Gewandhaus Orchestra, Decca (2010) Trevor Pinnock (a'= 415 Hz)European Brandenburg Ensemble, Avie (2007). and Richard Egarr (a'=392 Hz).Academy of Ancient Music, Harmonia Mundi (2009). The latter two recordings won Gramophone Awards in the categories “Best Baroque Instrumental” and “Editor’s Choice.” 
From 1990 to 1993, Ehrlich taught part time at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe. He was also a guest lecturer at the University of Southampton. Since 1993 he has been Professor of recorder at the University of Music und Theatre Leipzig and since 1998 Visiting Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and DramaTeaching staff, department of historical performance, Robert Ehrlich in London. In 2006, Ehrlich was elected Rector of the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig, where he was re-elected by a large majority for a second term by the Extended Senate in 2010.in HMT-Journal, pdf.
In 2015, he was elected rector of the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin by the Extended Academic Senate.Radio Berlin-Brandenburg online, Archive In 2019, following the end of his period of office at the HfM Hanns Eisler Berlin, he resumed his tenure as Professor in Leipzig, where he was elected to the University Senate in 2020 and was designated Special Representative of the Department of Composition and Music Theory in 2021.
== Functions, public offices and honorary offices ==
* 2012-2015 Vice-Chairman of the Landesrektorenkonferenz Saxony
* 2014-2019 Member of the Board of the Rectors' Conference of the German Universities of Music
* 2014 Patron Christopher Street Day Leipzig"Botschaft zum Christopher Street Day 2014"
== Awards ==
* 1988: ARD International Music Competition in Munich
* 1989: Moeck/SRP Competition in London
== Writings (selection) ==
* The Recorder (Yale University Press Musical Instrument Series), co-authored with David Lasocki, London & New York, 2022. ISBN 9780300118704.
* The Great German Recorder Epidemic: Reinventing the Recorder, 1925–1950. (Instant Harmony Essay Series, vol. 1), Portland 2021. ISBN-13 9798721925344.
* "Wiedergefundene Fragmente eines Hochschularchivs". Essay in the programme book Akademischer Festakt der Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler, Berlin 2018.
* "Germany National Overview; Music Education in Germany". ed. AEC (Association Européenne Conservatoires, Académies de Musique et Musikhochschulen 2017).
* "Die verlorenen Hanns Eisler Bilder von Prof. Roland Paris". Essay in the programme book Akademischer Festakt der Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler, Berlin 2016.
* "Serendipität". Denkströme. Journal der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, issue 5 (2010), 9–17.
* "Festrede zur Gründung der Stiftung der Hochschule für Musik und Theater". MT-Journal, Zeitschrift der Hochschule für Musik und Theater „Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy“ Leipzig, issue 28 (2010) Sonderbeilage, 2–7.
* "Du mußt dich nicht fürchten; diese Insel ist voll von Getöse: Rede anlässlich der feierlichen Investitur in das Rektorenamt". MT-Journal, issue 22 (2006), Sonderbeilage, 2–8.
Category:1965 births
Category:21st-century British male musicians
Category:Alumni of King's College, Cambridge