Marc Minkowski
Marc Minkowski ( born October 4, 1962 in Paris ) is a French conductor and bassoonist.
Life
The son of a pediatrics professor and grandson of the eminent psychiatrist Eugène Minkowski, learned in his youth, French and German bassoon. In parallel, he began to learn the baroque bassoon. Marc Minkowski was a member of several prestigious ensembles, the historical performance practice devoted themselves, such as Les Arts Florissants ( William Christie ), the Clemencic Consort ( Clemencic ) and La Chapelle Royale ( Philippe Herreweghe ).
First conducting courses he attended a two-month Dirigierseminar with Charles Bruck at the " Pierre Monteux Conducting School " in Hancock (Maine ) in Switzerland and 1980. He quickly developed into a specialist in historical performance practice, from baroque to classical to romantic. Impressed by the modes of interpretation by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sigiswald Kuijken and Reinhard Goebel 1982 he founded the Ensemble for Early Music Les Musiciens du Louvre.
One of the established circle of friends chamber ensemble " Lou's country ", consisting of Marc Minkowski, Hugo Reyne, Jerome Hantaï and Sébastien Marq won the 1984 first prize for ensemble music at the Early Music Festival in Bruges.
Minkowski tried initially mainly to the performance and CD recording of unknown pieces of Baroque. Outstanding are his interpretations of the works of Christoph Willibald Gluck, Jean -Philippe Rameau, Claudio Monteverdi, Jean -Baptiste Lully and Georg Friedrich Handel. The ensemble has made financial and cultural reasons, united in 1996 with the Orchestre de chambre and there is relocating to Grenoble.
Even the romantic repertoire and regular guest conductor in Minkowski's work take an important place. He has served as guest conductor of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, at the Warsaw Opera or at the Brussels opera house La Monnaie.
Marc Minkowski, also guest conductor at the Zurich Opera House, was awarded the Handel Prize of the City Hall and 2005 the Bremen Music Festival Prize in 2003. November 14, 2010 Marc Minkowski made its debut at the Vienna State Opera with the baton of Handel's " Alcina ".