Category:Bass clarinetists
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Musicians who play the bass clarinet. -Robert Pirc,
-Volker Hemken was born in Emden, Germany, in 1964. After studying in Hamburg, Amsterdam and Basel, he joined the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra as its solo bass clarinetist in 1992. Hemken appeared many times as a soloist playing concertos by Berio, Xenakis and others. He has been the recipient of many new compositions for bass clarinet. He was also a member of a band led by Tom Waits. Hemken appears on CDs: "Interpretenportrait" (ez-13011) with works for bass clarinet solo by Yun, Pintscher, Donatoni, Boulez, Goebbels, Leyendecker and Proeve; "bass clarinet" (PH 06018) with works by Iris ter Schiphorst, Bernhard Lang, David Lang, Michael Gordon, Daniel Smutny, Steffen Schleiermacher, Ernst Bechert, Heiner Goebbels, Pierre Boulez.
