Stefan Anton Reck

Stefan Anton Reck ( born April 26, 1960 in Baden -Baden ) is a German conductor. Reck is particularly committed to contemporary music.

Career

Reck grew up in Sinzheim near Baden-Baden. After graduating from Baden -Baden " Richard -Wagner -Gymnasium " he began at the Academy of Arts in Berlin, the study of conducting. In 1985, he won the end of his studies, the 1st International Arturo Toscanini Conducting Competition and shortly afterwards the first prize at the International Conducting Competition Gino Marinuzzi.

1987 and 1990 he attended the master class of Seiji Ozawa and Leonard Bernstein at the Tanglewood Music Festival. In the 1990s, stretching headed for four years, the " Orchestra Sinfonica di San Remo " and the " Orchestra Regionale del Lazio " in Rome. From 1997 to 2000, stretching Wizard of Maestro Claudio Abbado for the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra. In these years Reck with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra conducted several concerts, the 7th Symphony by Gustav Mahler in Havana, and the summer tours in 2000 with Bartók's The Miraculous Mandarin and Gustav Mahler's Adagio from the 10th Symphony. Also in these years, assisted stretching Maestro Pierre Boulez, in numerous productions such as Notations, Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps, Varèse Amérique, etc. In 1998, stretching the new production of Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, in the same year he made his debut in Verdi's Falstaff in a production with Claudio Abbado and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in Ferrara.

In 2000, he was appointed Chief Conductor of the Teatro Massimo di Palermo, which was opened in 1997 by efforts of the Mafia opponent and then Mayor Leoluca Orlando after 23 years. 2001 directed and produced there a " highly respectable ", " impressive " performance of Alban Berg's opera Lulu. Was particularly renowned for their clear understandable diction of the singers and exceptional transparency and expressiveness of the orchestral sound.

Other highlights of his career were:

  • Arnold Schoenberg: Moses and Aaron, the expectation
  • Arthur Honegger, Jeanne d' Arc au Bûcher
  • The celebration concert for the five-year re-opening of the historic theater, entitled La Memoria dell'Offesa. Dedicato all Vittime dell'Olocausto e di tutte le violenze - on the program. The Emperor of Atlantis by Viktor Ullmann and A Survivor from Warsaw by Arnold Schoenberg, with Harvey Keitel as a speaker.

As a guest conductor stretching is worldwide the leading opera houses and concert halls active: Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Alban Berg Lulu (3 -act version) and Bellini Norma; Semperoper Dresden European premiere of Jake Heggie Dead Man Walking and Verdi Aida; Leipzig Opera, Weber 's Der Freischütz, Frankfurt Opera, Verdi 's Don Carlo, Gran Teatro La Fenice, Richard Strauss Daphne, ( on CD and DVD as a live recording at Dynamic ), Teatro Regio di Torino Wagner 's Tristan und Isolde, Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro Teatro Comunale di Bologna Wagner Tannhäuser, Los Angeles Opera Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro, New National Theatre Tokyo Wagner The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, Alban Berg Lulu.

Numerous concerts with orchestras such as the Orchestre National de France Paris, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino, Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Montpellier, Royal Scottish National Orchestra (Edinburgh Festival), Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Gustav Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

In October 2011, Reck closes another new production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen with the twilight of the gods at the newly opened Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari from. Reck is particularly an expert on the music of Gustav Mahler and the Second Viennese School ( Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Anton Webern ) worldwide demand as a conductor for the concert as well as opera.

Discography

  • Berg: Lulu, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, OehmsClassics
  • Wagner Portrait, Albert Dohmen, Orchestra del Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Arte Nova Classics
  • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1, Op 10; Scriabin, Le Poème de l' Extase, Op 54 Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, edition Zeitklang
  • Schoenberg: Expectation (Anja Silja ); Poulenc, La voix humaine ( Raina Kabaivanska ), Orchestra del Teatro Massimo di Palermo
  • Mahler: Symphony No. 7, Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, Preiser Records
  • Mahler: Symphony No. 10, Adagio
  • Wagner: Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire
  • Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin, Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, Preiser Records
  • Tutino: Riccardo III, Orchestre del Teatro Sociale di Rovigo, Ermitage
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