Babette Haag
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Babette Haag | |
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| Born | 31 October 1967 Munich, West Germany |
| Instrument(s) | Percussion, marimba |
| Website | www |
Babette Haag (born 31 October 1967) is a German percussionist, who specialises in Marimba playing.[1]
Haag was born in Munich in 1967. Her parents were both professional musicians. Her mother is the harpist Gudrun Haag (née Diel) and her father is Wolfgang Haag, who played the flute for the Bavarian State Opera. She began to learn the piano when she was six[2] and she came to notice when awards for playing piano duets with Natasha Schmidt. Haag gained a first prize with distinction for her rendering of Lutoslawski's Paganini Variations and Sergei Rachmaninoff's Suite for Two Pianos.
Haag says that her change of direction came about when she heard Peter Sadlo who was the percussion prize winner of the ARD Competition when she was seventeen. His performance persuaded her to specialise in percussion instruments. So after she enrolled at Munich's Pestalozzi–Gymnasium in 1987, she decided the following year to study classic percussion and timpani at the Musikhochschule Freiburg with Bernhard Wulff.[2] Wulff is not only a composer and musicologist, but he is also a percussionist who organizes concerts.[3] Haag competed in Deutscher Musikrat in 1991 and this gave her prize-winning entry to the 36th National Selection of "Concerts of Young People" the following season. Haag was at the Musikhochschule Freiburg until 1994.[2]
