Cornelius Meister
Cornelius Meister ( born February 23, 1980 in Hannover ) is a German conductor and pianist.
Master comes from a musical family, his father Konrad Meister was a pianist and piano professor at the Musikhochschule Hannover, his mother likewise acts as a piano teacher, his half-brother Rudolf Meister is a pianist and Rector of the Music Academy Mannheim. Cornelius Meister studied piano and conducting at the Academy of Music and Theatre in Hanover with his father, Martin, and Eiji Oue Brauss and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Dennis Russell Davies and Karl Kamper.
1996 champion won the first prize at the Southwest German Chamber Music Competition, the 1998 Radeberger Prize and the Audience Award at the Schleswig -Holstein Music Festival, the 2000 Award of the German Music Foundation of the German Music Competition. In 2003 he was picked up by the German Music Council in the federal selection Dirigentenforum. 2001 and 2002 he was assistant to the Music Director at the Theater Erfurt, to 2005 he was conductor at the Staatsoper Hannover. He has appeared as a conductor, among others, at the Hamburg State Opera, the Leipzig Opera, the Bavarian State Opera, the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra of the Saarland Radio, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Erfurt, the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra, the Lübeck Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Nuremberg as well as in Vienna's Musikverein. In May 2007, he debuted at the Basel Opera bûcher with Honegger's Jeanne d' Arc au.
From September 2005 to the end of the 2011/12 season was a master music director of the City of Heidelberg; he was the youngest general music director of Germany to his vocation. At the city of Heidelberg theater he worked with the director Peter Spuhler. As a pianist he is going after a busy concert schedule, among other things, with his duo partner, clarinetist Clemens Trautmann. Since August 2006, Cornelius Meister is married.
In November 2008, Cornelius Meister his debut at the Dresden Philharmonic as a conductor with Richard Wagner's Overture and Bacchanale from " Tannhauser ," Arnold Schoenberg's " Transfigured Night, Op 4" for string orchestra and Alexander Scriabin " Prometheus - Le Poème du Feu op.60 ".
He is a welcome guest at the major opera houses in Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt and Hamburg.
Since September 2010, Cornelius Meister took over as the successor of Bertrand de Billy and the position of Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.
He has been nominated several times as the most important young musicians and by the initiative " Germany - Land of Ideas " is selected under the " 100 heads of tomorrow."
In June 2013 conducted master at the Latvian National Opera in Riga for the first time in 100 years Richard Wagner's work Der Ring des Nibelungen.