Emmanuel Krivine
Emmanuel Krivine ( born May 7, 1947 in Grenoble ) is a French conductor and violinist.
Life
Krivine's father was Russian; his mother Polish. He studied in his native city of Grenoble violin with Louise Mercier. In 1960 he went to study at the Paris Conservatoire; there René Benedetti was his teacher. His career as a violinist, he began early at the age of 16 years. In 1963 he won the First Prize of the Paris Conservatory in violin. A fellow of the " Chapelle Musicale de la Reine Elisabeth" in Brussels, he undertook further studies with Henryk Szeryng and Yehudi Menuhin to perfect in violin playing. 1968 awarded him the Royal Conservatory in Brussels a prize for virtuosity; In 1968 he won the Queen Elisabeth Competition in the violin. He was in the aftermath of other winners violin competitions in Genoa, Naples, Bratislava and London.
From 1964 he worked mainly in Belgium, as a conductor. In 1965 he met the conductor Karl Böhm know, a decisive encounter for Krivine; then he devoted himself increasingly to conducting.
In 1975, he conducted the New Year's Concert for the first time, the Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. From 1976 to 1983 he was then settled Gastdirigient ( Principal Guest Conductor ) of this orchestra. From 1979 to 1981 he taught at the Conservatory of Lyon parallel in the subject " orchestra Reconciliation '. In 1981, he was, after a car accident, playing the violin, and since then has worked exclusively as a conductor. From 1981 to 1983 he was Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Lorraine, today Orchestre National de Lorraine. From 1983 to 1985 he was a regular Gastdirigient ( Principal Guest Conductor ) of the Orchestre National de Lyon. In 1987 he was appointed Music Director and Chief Conductor of the orchestra. This post had Krivine held until 2000. 1989 Krivine conducted the world premiere of Michel Legrand's composition Concertoratorio, commissioned to mark the bicentenary of the French Revolution. In 1993 he was conductor at the premiere of the composition Passagers by Michael Jarrell.
Since 2001, Krivine Guest Conductor of the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg was (OPL ). Since the season 2006/2007 he is Chief Conductor and Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg. In May 2009, Krivine extended his contract with the OPL to the 2014 season / 2015.
In 2004, Krivine together with musicians from all over Europe, the orchestra " La Chambre Philharmonique ." The orchestra is dedicated to under Krivine's line of discovery and interpretation of orchestral works of the classical, romantic and contemporary music, each performed with original instruments of the period. The first appearance of the formation was in 2004 at the Music Festival Folles Journées de Nantes. With the orchestra " La Chambre Philharmonique " and CD recordings for the label Naïve, the c- minor Mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the Symphony No. arose in the aftermath 4 in A major ( "Italian " ), Op 90 and Symphony No. 5 in D minor ( " Reformation Symphony" ), Op 107 by Felix Mendelssohn.
Guest Conductor
As a guest conductor Krivine conducted numerous renowned orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Orchestra of the RAI Turin and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.
In North America, he conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. He conducted the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
In the season 2010/2011 he has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt ( Frankfurt RSO ), the German Chamber Philharmonic Bremen and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, DC on. In 2012 he toured with the orchestra band " La Chambre Philharmonique " at the Beethoven Festival in Bonn.
Krivine works primarily as a concert conductor. Occasionally, he also took over the management of opera productions, including, inter alia Die Fledermaus (Opéra de Lyon, December 2008) and Béatrice et Bénédict (Opéra -Comique in Paris, February 2010).
The British newspaper The Guardian called Krivine in 2003 as one of the " greatest conductors of our time."
Audio
For the label "Timpani " Krivine takes on together with the OPL works of orchestral literature; including two CDs recording the complete orchestral works of Claude Debussy have already been published. The recordings were made in February 2009. Emmanuel Krivine has further published recordings with the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Sinfonia Varsovia and the Orchestre National de Lyon. He has recorded works by Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, Maurice Ravel, Hector Berlioz, Vincent d' Indy, Pierre- Octave Ferroud, Joseph Guy Ropartz and Pascal Dusapin on CD.