Marek Janowski

Marek Janowski ( born February 18, 1939 in Warsaw ) is a German conductor.

Since 2002 Marek Janowski characterizes as the Artistic Director of the Rundfunk -Sinfonieorchester Berlin. In the fall of 2005, he has also taken over in Geneva, the management of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, this commitment he continues until 2012. He is also Endowed Guest Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. His collaboration begun in 1999 with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte- Carlo, he continues. Between 1984 and 2000 he served as Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France international reputation and made it to the top orchestras in France. From 2001 to 2003 he held the chief position even with the Dresden Philharmonic.

1939 born in Warsaw, raised and educated in Wuppertal, Marek Janowski led artistic way to start over accompanists and Kapellmeister activities in Aachen, Cologne, Dusseldorf and Hamburg engagements as musical director for the Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra ( 1973-1975 ) and Dortmund (1975 - 1979). 1986 to 1990 he served in parallel to his work in France as chief conductor of the Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne, 1997 to 1999 he was also Principal Guest Conductor of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.

In the 1980s he was a regular guest conductor in the international opera and concert scene from the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Vienna State Opera Chicago and Paris to Munich, Hamburg and Berlin. In the 1990s, Janowski has retired from the opera business in order to concentrate more on the concert area.

To date, Janowski's complete recording of Richard Wagner's cycle " The Ring of the Nibelungen " with the Staatskapelle Dresden is known worldwide as one of the most interesting musically that has ever been taken from this work. His CDs of recent years have received numerous awards.

In 1999, Marek Janowski, the first time to an invitation from the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. At the beginning of his time as head of the RSB standards he set in autumn 2002 with a five-part Robert Schumann cycle. In March 2000, he had realized with the RSB, the first complete recording of Paul Hindemith's great philosophical Johannes Kepler opera "The Harmony of the World ", published in December 2002 WERGO on CD and now received three prestigious recording prizes: the " Echo Klassik "In 2003, the" Grand Prix du disque de l' Académie Charles Cros " 2003 and the " Cannes Classical Award " 2004 The first CD Janowski with the Rundfunk- Sinfonieorchester Berlin -. songs by Richard Strauss, sung by Soile Isokoski, published in February 2002 at the Finnish label ONDINE - was honored in October 2002 with the " Gramophone Award". The first recording published in 2005 by Paul Hindemith 's last opera recorded in 2004 by Janowski and the RSB " The Long Christmas Dinner ", was awarded in the fall of 2006 the "Echo Klassik".

DVD

• 2011: Marek Janowski: Les leçons particulières de musique, directed by Michel Follen, for the French television channel La Sept, Harnonia Mundi HMD 9909037