Hans-Joachim Frey
Hans -Joachim Frey ( born June 10, 1965 in Gehrden, Lower Saxony ) is a German cultural manager, who has worked in Austria, Germany and Russia. He was from 1997 to 2007 Artistic Director of Operations and Director of Opera ( from 2003) at the Semperoper in Dresden from 2007 to 2010 and general director at the Theater Bremen. Since 1 January 2013 it is in the European Capital of Culture in Linz / Austria served as Executive Director and Artistic Director of the LIVA, where he is also responsible for the Bruckner House, the International Bruckner Festival and the clouds of sound. In addition, since 2006 he is the founder and the first chairman and overall artistic director of the Dresden Semper Opera Ball. In addition, he is frequently engaged culturally, as in vocal and instrumental competitions as well as in cultural and scientific organizations, as well as artistic director of the Dresden Opera Ball. Frey is the nephew of Armin Mueller-Stahl.
Life
Youth and Education
Frey comes from a family originally from East Prussia and is the son of Christa Frey, born Grigel and Pastor Dietrich Frey. He attended school in Lower Saxony's capital of Hanover. From the seventh to the twentieth year, he received piano lessons at the age of eight he joined the Hannover Boys Choir, where he remained ten years. In addition, he took six years of teaching in the church organ, which he signed with the passing of the C- organist examination. In 1984 he graduated from the high school in his hometown. Subsequently, he did his military service, where he was employed as a driver, secretary and organist of the military vicar.
After this he started at the University of Music and Theatre in Hamburg trained as an opera singer and switched between vocal registers tenor and baritone. At the urging of his father, which the profession of opera singer was too uncertain, he took the same course of study musical theater director. The end of 1989 he staged in collaboration with the Hamburg State Opera as a study project which Operetta for which he won numerous sponsors Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss. Subsequently, he enrolled in the new higher education program Cultural Management. During his studies he worked as a singer at various opera houses and concerts. He was also assistant director, including those in Hamburg and Stockholm, and brought five more his own productions at Studio theaters in Rostock and Detmold on the stage. In 1990 he received his diploma as a director ( musical theater ) and three years at Gotz Friedrich on the diploma as a cultural manager at Rough Hermann and Peter Ruzicka.
Early theater work
After graduating, Frey worked since 1993 as Artistic Director of Operations at the Thuringian State Theatre in Eisenach and then from 1995 in the same capacity at the Theater Bremen.
Time in Dresden
In May 1997, Frey was hired as Artistic Director of Operations of the Saxon State Opera Dresden at the Semperoper. There he pursued a policy of internationalization of the singers and enabled productions by well-known directors such as Willi Decker, Sebastian Baumgarten, Nemirova, Claus Guth, Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Günter Krämer and Peter Konwitschny. He also stepped up its cooperation with the Dresden Staatskapelle and thus with conductors such as Giuseppe Sinopoli, Semyon Bychkov, Colin Davis, Fabio Luisi, Sebastian Weigle, Marc Albrecht, Semyon Bychkov, Daniel Harding, Christian Thielemann, Manfred Honneck and Daniele Gatti.
When, in August 2002, had to be closed due to the exceptionally strong flood of the Elbe, the Semper Opera House, he initiated during this period, together with Harry Kupfer staging Carmen - a version by Georges Bizet in the premises of the Transparent Factory on the edge of the Great Garden. The piece was presented there for a month before the ballet illusions at the headquarters of the State Opera House on November 9, 2002 - Like Swan, the new season 2002/2003 could be included. In summer 2003, he was named Frey for opera director. Under his leadership, perpetual interruption was re-introduced on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the city of Dresden Opera Ball in early 2006 after 67 years. On January 13, 2600 guests attended the first event, while 4,000 spectators watched the above video screens transmitted event on the opera forecourt.
In April 2007, he resigned from his office off at the Semper Opera House, to take over the general directorship of the theater Bremen. However, it is also the artistic director of the Opera Ball and first chairman of the Dresden Semper Opera Ball eV The 10th Semper Opera Ball will take place on January 30, 2015 again held under his leadership.
Director in Bremen
At the Theater Bremen Frey broke on 1 August 2007 from the 13 years officiating director Klaus Pierwoß. One of his term of office continuing process should be the reorganization of the theater as a holistic cultural brand across the stage beyond. In the course of this concept initially was a modernization of the logo; Moreover, a greater integration with the economy and other cultural institutions should be allowed. During the directorship Frey Theater Bremen entered into cooperation with the St. Stephen's Church, which includes, among other so-called theater sermons on certain pieces. In Rangfoyer the theater at the Goethe Square theater Galerie Bremen was established in the far including works by GABO, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Annathal Bach, Christian Ludwig Attersee and Ai Wei Wei were presented. For these innovations, the theater several prizes and awards received. He developed the concept of the 2,500 -seat floating stage Bremen on the former site of the AG Weser and in the summer for a week an opera performance was seen. He staged as a director, the opera "The Flying Dutchman " (2008); "Aida" (2009); Turandot (2010).
At the beginning of his term Frey announced the production of the musical Marie Antoinette by Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay. This was but listed from January and May 2009 in Bremen Musical Theatre with funding from the Bremer Theater and Musical elected in 2009. The cost of production amounted to 5.8 million euros. Instead of the expected 120,000 spectators visited the 90,000 ideas. In August 2010, Frey finished at his own request his directorship in Bremen to devote himself to new activities.
In Russia
After working in Bremen Frey staged for the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg on the occasion of the 150th anniversary in 2010, the opera gala.
At the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow took place in September 2011, the international singing competition Competizione dell ' Opera under Frey's line instead. In order for this singing competition was first held outside of Germany. This competition was then in 2012 at the Bolshoi Theatre in Minsk / Belarus instead.
At the Moscow Chamber Opera Boris Pokrovsky he has 2011, the opera Zar und Zimmermann first fully staged in Russia, sung in German language and with spoken dialogue in Russian.
2011 was a big gala for the 50-year anniversary of the partnership between the cities of Dresden and St. Petersburg under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski and Frey's direction and organization at the Mikhailovsky Theatre instead. In 2012 he staged in October in the cities of Ulan-Ude and Irkutsk go the opera " The Flying Dutchman " by Richard Wagner at Lake Baikal. The first time was brought to the stage an opera in its original language by a foreign director beyond the Urals.
In October 2013, has announced the opening gala of the new Opera House of Primorskyregion in Vladivostok directed and produced. This opera house is now the third largest opera theater in Russia.
2013 he has also staged with great in December for the International Opera Forum at the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus in Minsk the opera " The Flying Dutchman ". Since 2014 he also acts as advisor to the Director General at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
Other activities
Frey performs different teaching assignments for Cultural Management at the University of Music and Theatre in Hamburg, the University of the Arts Bremen and the University of Music Franz Liszt in Weimar. In 1996, he exclaimed as founder and director of the international singing competition Competizione dell ' Opera of the Italian opera to life, which is intended for promotion of young talent. The competition is now established worldwide and has been performed 13 times. 2014 finds this competition for the 14th time instead of during the International Bruckner Festival at the Music Theatre and at the Bruckner House in Linz.
In 2003 he founded together with a small group of other cultural officials, the International Forum for Culture and Economics (also Forum Tiberius ). He was its CEO until 2010. Under the auspices of the Forum the Freys Piano Competition " Anton G. Rubinstein " busy 2003. 2009 took the piano competition for the fourth time with the final concert in the Semper Opera instead.
He was director of the 2004 competition held by the Forum Tiberius International Composition Competition for the Transparent Factory. He was also a member of the artistic advisory board of the boys' choir Hanover.
He is a member of the boards of trustees of the Dresden Cross Choir, the Richard Strauss Festival and the Daetz Foundation (see Daetz Centre ), Werder Bremen and Rotary International. He also was a member of the jury at numerous art competitions and since 2005 also the patron of the Musikverein Dippoldiswalde.
From 2011 to the end of 2012 he was Managing Director of LaValse GmbH Berlin. In 2011 he was appointed visiting professor at Seoul Arts College in Korea.
Linz- Austria since January 1, 2013 he is the new Artistic Director and Executive Director of the LIVA in Linz. It is thus, inter alia, responsible for the Bruckner House, the International Bruckner Festival, the clouds of sound, the Posthof and sits on the board of Ars Electronica.