Charles Ansbacher

Charles Ansbacher ( born October 5, 1942 in Providence, Rhode Iceland, USA, † 12 September 2010 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States ) was an American conductor.

Life

Ansbacher was the son of the famous psychologist Heinz Ludwig Ansbacher and Rowena pair Ripin Ansbacher. He received his musical training by cello lessons in his childhood. In his youth, he conducted the high school orchestra in Burlington ( Vermont) in the performance of a work by Gustav Mahler. His parents let him visit on courses at Greenwood Music Camp and Tanglewood. He first graduated in physics at Brown University (1965) and the University of Cincinnati (MM 1968, DMA 1979). At the Mozarteum in Salzburg he studied conducting.

Ansbacher was from 1970 to 1989 conductor and musical director of the Colorado Springs Symphony Orchestra.

Mid -1990s lived Ansbacher in Vienna, where he conducted several times at the Vienna State Opera, as well as performing with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Innsbruck. He also conducted the Philharmonic Orchestra of Sarajevo in their performances in Austria, including in the Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg and Vienna City Hall. He paid particular attention to Eastern European countries in transition, where he conducted various orchestras and cultural exchanges fostered. So he brought together not only the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra to Austria and Italy, but also leading members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra pianist Ivo Pogorelich with the Croatian to make the opening of the Croatian Consulate in Chicago. Ansbacher was appointed conductor of orchestras in Boston, Moscow, Bishkek and Sarajevo. Among his most famous performances included a Brahms program at Sanders Theatre at Harvard University, Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, as well as the performance of the same work in Belgrade with American and Russian soloists.

Shortly after his move from Colorado to Massachusetts was Ansbacher 1998-1999 "Visiting Scholar " in the Harvard Music Department.

In 2000 he founded the Boston Landmarks Orchestra, which gave free admission on classical music concerts in different places in the Greater Boston area. He also conducted the first-ever symphony concert at Fenway Park in Boston. On September 1, 2010 Ansbacher was appointed Honorary Conductor of this orchestra.

He also conducted the world premiere of a musical portraits Mandela in Johannesburg, before it was listed in the U.S. in 2004.

In December 2005, he headed the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra in a performance with the Palestinian soloist Saleem Abboud Ashkar -. In 2008, he was the first American conductor who conducted the Lebanese Symphony Orchestra. In Hanoi, he was the first American to have overseen the Vietnamese National Orchestra. President Bill Clinton called Ansbacher " the unofficial U.S. ambassador to the music. "

Political commitment

Ansbacher was also active socially. He was a White House Fellow Vice- Chairman of the Task Force on the Use of Design, Art, and Architecture in Transportation of the U.S. Department of Transportation. by his interest in design and architecture of Mayor Federico Peña Ansbacher was appointed a member of the Blue Ribbon Committee for the design of the new Denver International Airport. After that, he remained as chairman of the Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities, to which he was appointed by Governor Roy Romer, in politics.

Family

Ansbacher was married to Swanee Hunt, who was from 1993 to 1997 U.S. Ambassador to Vienna. The couple had three children, the future filmmaker Henry Ansbacher, Lillian Shuff and Teddy Ansbacher - Hunt.