Raphaël Schenkel Clarinet Masterclass & Lecture (Cancelled)
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Event Information
Date & Time: Wednesday, November 12, 2025 ｜ 17:00–20:00
Venue: Aeolus Music, Taipei (8F., No. 37, Sec. 3, Roosevelt Rd., Da’an Dist., Taipei City)
Registration
Please complete the online registration form first. https://forms.gle/J8ZrB3S8WAms8SY6A
Active Participants
Up to five participants, each receiving a 45-minute public lesson.
Applicants must submit a short biography and a performance video (within one year) and pay a registration fee of NT$400.
Application deadline: November 9, 2025 (Sun), 23:59 (Taipei time).
Selected participants and repertoire will be announced on November 10, 2025 (Mon). The lesson fee of NT$5,000 must be paid by November 11 (Tue).
Failure to pay by the deadline will result in disqualification and replacement by a waiting-list participant.
Applicants who are not selected may join as auditors without additional payment.
Auditors
Open until full capacity is reached.
Registration fee: NT$400, payable online or on-site.
Auditors may attend the full lecture and all lessons.
Payment Information
Please include a note in your transfer: “Clarinet Masterclass_(Name)_(Registration / Lesson / Auditing Fee)”
Bank: Taipei Fubon Bank (Bankcode 012)
Account Number: 454-168-300-892
Account Name: Yu-Chun Lai
Notes
The organizers reserve the right to make final adjustments to the event content or schedule.
All updates will be announced on the official website of Quintette Les Jeux d’Anches.
Organizers & Contact
Organizers: Quintette Les Jeux d’Anches, MNA Management of New Arts
Sponsors: Aeolus Music
Contact: Mr. Lai ｜ jeuxdanches@gmail.com
About Raphaël Schenkel
Raphaël Schenkel is the solo bass clarinetist of the Bremer Philharmoniker, professor of
clarinet at CODARTS University for the Arts in Rotterdam, and artistic director of the
"Klang-Labor Hechingen" festival. Since 2017, he has been a member of the renowned
Lucerne Festival Orchestra. In addition, he has extensive orchestral experience as a guest musician with leading orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the WDR Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Camerata Bern, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Les Dissonances in Paris, and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra.
Throughout his career, he has worked with numerous distinguished conductors, including Mariss Jansons, Sir Simon Rattle, Daniel Barenboim, Alan Gilbert, Eliahu Inbal, Christia Thielemann, Sir Roger Norrington, Andris Nelsons, Pierre Boulez, Paavo Järvi, Kirill Petrenko, Iván Fischer, Riccardo Chailly, Gustavo Dudamel, Daniele Gatti, and Valery
Gergiev. Concert tours have taken him across Europe, as well as to the USA, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Malaysia, and China.
Alongside his orchestral career, Raphaël Schenkel regularly performs as a soloist and in
various chamber music ensembles. As a passionate chamber musician, he collaborates with artists such as Jacques Zoon, Wolfram Christ, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Guy Braunstein, Caspar Frantz, Martin Klett, Alexander Lonquich, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra Soloists, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra Soloists, the Amaryllis Quartet, the Eliot Quartet, and the Quatuor Hermès. He has also contributed to numerous radio and television recordings for SWR, WDR, BR, Deutschlandfunk, and Arte.
His teaching career began at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen, where he taught until 2020. From 2019 to 2021, he was teaching at the Royal Northern College of Music in
Manchester. Since 2023, he has been a professor of clarinet at CODARTS University for the Arts in Rotterdam. Additionally, he regularly gives masterclasses in England, Spain, South Korea, and China. In August 2022, he performed as Artist in Residence at the Montafoner Resonanzen Festival in Austria.
Raphaël Schenkel received his first clarinet lessons at the age of seven from Rudolf Mauz in Tübingen. He initially studied at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen with Prof. Manfred Lindner before continuing his studies at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin. There, he was trained by Prof. Karl-Heinz Steffens (former principal clarinetist of the Berliner Philharmoniker), Prof. Wenzel Fuchs (principal clarinetist of the Berliner Philharmoniker), and Prof. Ralf Forster (principal clarinetist of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin). During the 2005/06 season, he was a scholarship holder of the Orchestra Academy of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, followed by a scholarship from the Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker in 2009/10.
Alongside his artistic career, he completed a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Arts and
Administration at the University of Zurich.
In 2012, he founded the Klang-Labor Hechingen festival, which aims to establish a high-
level chamber music festival while simultaneously inspiring children and young people in
rural areas to engage with music.
Raphaël Schenkel is also a D'Addario Artist as well as an Artist and Developer for Buffet
Crampon in Paris.
