Andris Nelsons
Andris Nelsons ( born November 18, 1978 in Riga) is a Latvian conductor.
Life and work
The son of a family of musicians and grew up in Riga. After he had taken lessons in the subject trumpet at the Emil- Dārziņš Music School of the Latvian Conservatory in Riga and also made first Dirigiererfahrungen, studied at the Latvian Academy of Music and then at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, Rimsky- Korsakov, Alexander Titov. At the same time he attended master classes in conducting with Jorma Panula and Neeme Järvi. He also carries out since 2002 privately with Mariss Jansons.
His first job was Andris Nelsons as a trumpeter in the Latvian National Opera Orchestra. During this time he continued his education as a conductor. After completing his studies he gained numerous international experience as a conductor, including in Finland and in the U.S. ( eg, the Chicago Civic Orchestra, where he conducted and Others concerts with Gidon Kremer as soloist ).
In the season 2003/2004, Nelsons was at the age of 24 years, chief conductor of the Latvian National Opera in Riga. Here he was involved as a conductor at the production of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, a joint project of the Latvian National Opera and the Bergen International Festival, which extends to 2009 and was launched in 2006 with a performance of Das Rheingold in Riga and mountains. In the season 2005/2006 he made his debut with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra.
From 2006 to 2009 he was chief conductor of the Northwest German Philharmonic Orchestra of Herford. In the same season he made his debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin with Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème. Since then, he made his debut among others at the Vienna State Opera, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony, the Metropolitan Opera (New York), at the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, at the Berlin Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France and the Staatskapelle Dresden.
In September 2008, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Nelson named as his twelfth Principal Conductor and Music Director. His contract began the season 2008/2009 and was extended until 2013/14.
His debut at the Bayreuth Festival, he was at the opening on July 25, 2010, Wagner's Lohengrin, directed by Hans New rock. For the festival in 2016 that provided for the musical direction of Parsifal.
From the season 2014/2015 he is initially for five years, principal conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Awards
2001 Andris Nelsons was honored for outstanding performance with the Grand Music Prize of Latvia. 2012 Nelson received the Diapason d'Or for his published in May 2012 DVD or Blu -ray of a live concert with the Concertgebouw Orchestra at the Lucerne Festival in 2011, in which Richard Wagner's Rienzi Overture, the Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome Richard Strauss and the Symphony No. 8 by Dmitri Shostakovich were listed.
CDs
When label Orfeo International was published in 2009 his recording of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 and "Hamlet" overture, the recording was awarded the Prize of the German Record Critics. With the same price and the CD with the violin concertos of Beethoven and Berg with the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne and Arabella Steinbacher was excellent, which was also released in 2009. 2010 appeared the Orfeo recordings with orchestral works by Richard Strauss and Igor Stravinsky.
Film
- The conductor Andris Nelsons. Genius on Fire. Documentary, Germany, 2012, 52 min, written and directed by Astrid Bscher Production: Fritz movie, WDR, arte, first broadcast: November 21, 2012 in arte, Summary of ARD.