Ingo Metzmacher

Ingo Metzmacher ( born November 10, 1957 in Hannover ) is a German conductor. With performances, music series and writings Metzmacher uses mainly for the music of the 20th century.

Life

Ingo Metzmacher is the son of the cellist Rudolf Metzmacher and the doctoral biologist Lore Schoen. After graduating from high school in the Humanistic Ratsgymnasium he studied in his native town, Salzburg and Cologne piano, music theory and conducting. First artistic home, he found the Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, where he was initially hired as a pianist then as a conductor at the Opera House under Michael Gielen. His breakthrough came in 1988 with the short-term acquisition of the premiere of Franz Schreker's The distant sound in Brussels. Subsequent invitations to the opera houses of Dresden, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Paris and Los Angeles.

In 1997 he was appointed General Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera, where he conducted numerous internationally acclaimed productions over eight seasons. In particular, his collaboration with the director and his friend Peter Konwitschny repeatedly led to outstanding productions. His greatest achievements include Lohengrin, Wozzeck, Der Freischütz, Don Carlos, and Moses and Aaron. The Opernwelt named the hamburger house in 2005 to the Opera House of the Year.

From 2007 to 2010 was Ingo Metzmacher chief conductor and artistic director of the Deutsches Symphonie -Orchester Berlin. As the successor of Ferenc Fricsay, Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Chailly, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Kent Nagano, he was the first German conductor in this position.

With productions of Tristan und Isolde as well as Saint François d' Assise in May and June 2008 adopted Ingo Metzmacher of the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, where he was chief conductor during three seasons. One of the Highlights of his tenure include performances of Henze's The Bassariden directed by Peter Stein, Die tote Stadt and the subscribed with the Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Da Ponte cycle with the production team Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito.

Metzmacher has been married since 1989 and has four adult children.

Work

Innovative programs and the consistent use of the music of the 20th century featuring the work of Ingo Metzmacher in a special way. Milestones of his career were the Hamburg New Year's Eve concerts from 1999 to 2004 under the title Who's Afraid of 20th Century Music, which appeared as live recordings on CD, his recording of the complete symphonies of Karl Amadeus Hartmann for EMI with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, whose principal guest conductor, he from 1995 to 1999, was his performance of Luigi Nono's Prometeo at the Salzburg Festival in 1993, his residence as artiste étoile at the Lucerne Festival in 2003, where he Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Requiem aufführte among other things for a young poet, as well as the world premiere of Hans Werner Henze's 9th Symphony with the Berlin Philharmonic, which marked his debut with the orchestra and has also been released by EMI on CD. In July 2010 Metzmacher conducted at the Salzburg Festival in the world premiere of Wolfgang Rihm's opera Dionysos by Friedrich Nietzsche's Dionysian dithyramb ( with the Deutsches Symphonie -Orchester Berlin, directed by Pierre Audi). At the Salzburg Festival in 2012, he headed Bernd Alois Zimmermann's opera Die Soldaten.

Recently, Ingo Metzmacher conducted the Vienna Philharmonic in their traditional subscription concerts as well as in the Salzburg Mozart Week, the San Francisco Symphony, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. At the Opera House Zurich, he debuted in October 2007 with Engelbert Humperdinck royal children. In the summer of 2008, he was experiencing as a pianist at the Salzburg Festival and the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, where he accompanied Christine Schäfer and Matthias Goerne. He also led a concert performance of Olivier Messiaen's Saint François d' Assise at the BBC Proms in London.

In the criticism he got when he " From German soul " took the program in a concert for the Day of German Unity Hans Pfitzner's Eichendorff Cantata 2007. In support of his rejection said Dieter Graumann, vice president of the Central Council of Jews: " With the performance of the concerto, From the German soul ' of the composer Hans Pfitzner on the Day of German Unity at the Berlin Philharmonie rehabilitated chief conductor Ingo Metzmacher scandalously a sympathizer of National Socialism and self-declared anti-Semite ". In autumn 2008 appeared from German soul with the Deutsches Symphonie -Orchester Berlin on the label Phoenix, also Éclairs sur l' Au - delà ... by Messiaen with the Vienna Philharmonic at the Kairos label.

Outside of his work with the Deutsches Symphonie -Orchester Berlin conducted by Ingo Metzmacher in the 2008 / 09 season, a new production of Tristan und Isolde at the Zurich Opera House, as well as performances of Die tote Stadt at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London. With the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, he went on an extended tour of Europe, and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome invited him to several concerts. In the summer of 2009 he took over the musical direction of a new production of Luigi Nono's Al gran sole carico d' amore at the Salzburg Festival. There, the Vienna Philharmonic, directed by Katie Mitchell. On the program for the 2009/10 season stood together with his concerts with the Deutsches Symphonie -Orchester Berlin, among others, a new production of Schreker's The distant sound of the Zurich Opera, his debut with the Russian National Orchestra in Moscow, concerts with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and the Rake's Progress at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London. In October 2009 Metzmacher jumped in, later reviewed as a triumph of the musical, for the diseased Kirill Petrenko as conductor of Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at the Vienna State Opera.

Another successful plea for pioneering composers such as Charles Ives, Olivier Messiaen, Arnold Schoenberg, Edgard Varèse, Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage makes its published in 2005 by Rowohlt book No Fear of new sounds dar. His book on the subject of opera entitled Curtain on! appeared in October 2009, also at Rowohlt.

Ingo Metzmacher extended his contract with the DSO Berlin does not have the season 2009/10 also. The occasion was a reduction of seven soloists places in the DSO.

Writings

  • No fear of new tones. A journey into the world of music. 4th Edition, Rowohlt, Berlin 2005, 190 pp., ISBN 3-87134-478-8.
  • Raise the curtain! Discover and experience opera. Rowohlt, Berlin 2009, 222 pp., ISBN 978-3-87134-576-0

Film

  • Ingo Metzmacher. A German conductor. Documentary, Germany, 2010, 52 min, Director: Sigrun Matthiesen, Production ZDF, first broadcast 21 March, 2011, Summary of arte.

Honors

  • 1999: Lower Price for Culture
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