Gintaras RinkeviÄius
Gintaras Rinkevičius ( b. 1960 in Vilnius) is a Lithuanian conductor.
Life
Rinkevicius visited the MK Čiurlionis Art School and studied at the St. Petersburg (until 1983 ) and the Moscow Conservatory (1986). In 1983 he won the fifth Conducting Competition in Moscow. He is best known as the winner of the Herbert von Karajan Competition in Berlin in 1985. Three years later he became chief conductor and artistic director of the Lithuanian State Philharmonic. He also worked from 1996 to 2003 as artistic director and chief conductor from 2007 to 2009 and as chief guest conductor at the Latvian National Opera. He also held senior positions in the opera houses of Malmö ( 2002-05 ) and Riga, and has been chief conductor of the Academic Symphony Orchestra of Novosibirsk.
As a guest conductor Rinkevičius led, inter alia, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Staatskapelle Weimar, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Russian National Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra and the Symphony Odense. Under his leadership, were musicians like Violeta Urmanavičiūtė - Mana, Matti Salminen, Badri Maisuradze, Katia Ricciarelli, Victor Tretyakov, Yuri Bashmet, Peter Donohoe, Oleg Kagan, Gidon Kremer, David Geringas and Roger Muraro.
As an opera conductor Rinkevičius debuted in 1986 at the Hungarian National Opera in Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio. This was followed by ballet as Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet and Igor Stravinsky's Le sacre du printemps. In 1988 he conducted the performance of Audronė Žigaitytė - Nekrošienės Opera Mažvydas in Klaipeda, 2003, a concert performance of Peter Heiss ' opera Drot marsk above the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen. As a guest conductor at the Bolshoi Theatre he stated, inter alia Puccini's La Bohème. At the Latvian National Opera, he had, inter alia, Giuseppe Verdi's Nabucco, Aida and La Traviata, Salome Richard Strauss, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and Mozart's The Magic Flute in the repertoire.
As an orchestral conductor Rinkevicius led, inter alia, all symphonies of Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Gustav Mahler and Dmitri Shostakovich. He headed the Lithuanian premieres of Mahler's 8th Symphony, César Franck 's oratorio Les Beatitudes and Philip Glass' Itaipu and the world premieres of Algirdas Martinaitis oratorio Laiškas visiems tikintiesiems, Feliksas Bajoras Dievo avinėlis ( Agnus Dei ) and Julius Juzeliūnas Žaidimas. In 1994 he was awarded the Lithuanian National Prize, in 2009 awarded him President Valdas Adamkus the Grand Commander of the Order of merit for Lithuania.