STEFAN DOHR Stefan Dohr studied in Essen and Cologne and started his  professional career at the age of 19 as principal horn of the  Frankfurt Opera. He occupied the same position with the  Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de  Nice and the Deutschen-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Stefan  Dohr has been the principal horn of the Berlin Philharmonic  since 1993.  As a soloist Stefan Dohr has worked with many celebrated  conductors, including Daniel Barenboim, Bernhard Haitink,  Christian Thielemann, Ingo Metzmacher and Daniel Harding as  well as Claudio Abbado. His engagements as a sought after  chamber musician include performances with his Philharmonic  colleagues in various ensembles as well as with partners such  as Maurizio Pollini, Lars Vogt, Kolja Blacher and Ian Bostridge.  He is also a member of the Berlin Philharmonic Octet as well as  the Ensemble Wien-Berlin. Stefan Dohr appears regularly in  international chamber music festivals and is invited to give  master classes throughout the world.   As well as the solo-repertoire of the classic and romantic  period such as the horn concertos of Mozart, Haydn and  Strauss ,Stefan Dohr's interest also lies in works by  contemporary composers such as Ligeti, Knussen and Kirchner.  He has had a number of pieces composed for him, such as the  'Montafon' concerto by Herbert Willi (2008), Johannes  Wallmann (2010), Toshio Hosokawa (2011).  Vita