Petite Suite for Flute (with Bass Flute Obbligato and Gong)

Jörg Widmann (1973) is a renowned German clarinetist, composer, and conductor. Born in Munich, he studied clarinet at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich with Gerd Starke and later with Charles Neidich at the Juilliard School in New York.
Widmann studied composition with Kay Westermann, Wilfried Hiller, and Wolfgang Rihm. His compositions are performed regularly by conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Daniel Harding, Valery Gergiev, Kent Nagano, Christian Thielemann, Mariss Jansons, Andris Nelsons, and Simon Rattle, and premiered by orchestras such as the Wiener and Berliner Philharmoniker, New York Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, BBC Symphony Orchestra, and many others. Jörg Widmann has received many awards, including the Berliner Philharmoniker Academy’s Claudio Abbado Composition Award in 2006.
His music has been described as varied and imaginative. According to Bachtrack, Widmann was the third most performed living contemporary composer in the world in 2023, behind John Williams and Arvo Pärt.
He has taught clarinet and composition at the University of Music Freiburg, and is a composition professor at the Barenboim–Said Akademie in Berlin.
Among his most noteworthy compositions: the concert overture Con brio, the opera Babylon, an oratorio Arche, the Viola Concerto, the Kantate, and the trumpet concerto Towards Paradise.
He has been Composer in Residence for the Berlin Philharmonic, Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig, and the Cleveland Orchestra.