Peter Ruzicka
Peter Ruzicka ( born July 3, 1948 in Dusseldorf ) is a German composer, conductor and artistic director. From 2002 to 2006 he was head of the Salzburg Festival.
Life
Peter Ruzicka learned an instrumental and theoretical training at the Hamburg Conservatory (piano, oboe, composition theory). This is followed by composition studies joined with Hans Werner Henze and Hans Otte. He studied law and musicology in Munich, Hamburg and Berlin and received his doctorate in 1977 with an interdisciplinary dissertation on the "eternal moral law."
For his compositions, he has received numerous prizes and awards (including UNESCO prize " International Rostrum of Composers ", Paris, Louis Spohr Music Prize ). Peter Ruzicka's works were by leading orchestras and ensembles, including the Berlin Philharmonic, all German Radio Broadcasting Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Munich Philharmonic, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra London, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Paris, Czech Philharmonic, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra performed the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductors such as Gerd Albrecht, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Semyon Bychkov, Riccardo Chailly, Christoph Eschenbach, Michael Gielen, Eliahu Inbal, Mariss Jansons, Kurt Masur, Antonio Pappano, Giuseppe Sinopoli and Christian Thielemann have stood up for his music. His opera Celan experienced in 2001 its first performance at the Dresden State Opera. Ruzicka's new music theater HÖLDERLIN was premiered in 2008 at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin.
Since 1990, Peter Ruzicka is a professor at the University of Music and Theatre in Hamburg. The composer is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg.
From 1979 to 1987 Peter Ruzicka worked as director of the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, from 1988 to 1997 as director of the Hamburg State Opera and the Hamburg Philharmonic. In 1996 he took over as successor to Hans Werner Henze's the artistic director of the Munich Biennale, he (2010) holds today, and next to it was in 1997, Artistic Advisor of the Concertgebouw Orchestra. He was appointed President of the Bavarian Theatre Academy in 1999. From 2001 to 2006 Ruzicka took over as artistic director of the Salzburg Festival as Artistic Director.
As a conductor Peter Ruzicka led, inter alia, the German Symphony Orchestra in Berlin - with whom he has recorded CD productions of works by Mahler, Schreker and Pettersson -, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Symphony Orchestra - the result was a CD - cycle of 12 orchestral works by Hans Werner Henze -, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden -Baden and Freiburg, the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt, the MDR Symphony Orchestra Leipzig, the Munich Philharmonic, the Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the German chamber Philharmonic, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Gulbenkian Orchestra Lisbon, the China Philharmonic Orchestra, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra Tokyo.
In the 2013/14 season Peter Ruzicka conducted including the NDR Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg Philharmonic, China Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra Musikkollegium Winterthur and the MDR Symphony Orchestra Leipzig.
Compositions
- Metamorphoses on a sound field by Joseph Haydn ( 1990) for large orchestra
- "... The Blessed, the Cursed ... " (1991), four orchestral sketches
- Eight Songs for fragments of Nietzsche ( 1992), for mezzo-soprano (baritone ) and piano
- A disappearance ... (1992 ), String Quartet No. 3
- Tallis (1993 ), irradiation for orchestra
- Islands ..., rimless ... (1994 /95), for violin, chamber choir and orchestra
- " ... Losing itself " (1996), for string quartet and speaker
- The sun goes down (1997-2000), eight songs based on fragments of Nietzsche for baritone or mezzo-soprano and orchestra
- Night Piece (1997), for orchestra
- " ... Premonitions ... " (1998), for orchestra
- Search ( - at heart ) ( 1998), for chorus and orchestra
- Celan (1998 /99), musical theater in seven designs
- Echo (1999), Mirror for Orchestra
- Tombeau (2000), for flute ( alto flute, bass flute ) and string quartet
- Memory (2001 ), traces for Clarinet and Orchestra
- Memorial (2001), for orchestra
- Celan Symphony (2002), for baritone, mezzo- soprano and large orchestra
- Affluence (2003 ) for large orchestra
- Fall (2004), for string quartet
- " ... Into the open ... " (2005/ 06), Music for 22 strings
- Pre-echo (2005), Eight approaches for large orchestra
- Parergon (2006 ) Seven sketches to " Hölderlin " for piano
- " ... And you want me to keep your hands ... " (2006/ 07), five fragments of Hölderlin for baritone and piano
- Hölderlin (2007), An expedition
- Maelstrom (2007 ) for large orchestra
- Postscript (2008), Three Pieces for Cello and Piano
- Memory and Oblivion (2008), 6th string quartet with soprano
- Recitative ( 2009), for cello and piano
- Back ... Take ... (2009 ) for large orchestra
- " Trans" (2009) for chamber orchestra
- " ... Across the Border " (2010) for cello and chamber ensemble
- Five Scenes ( 2009), for piano
- Compensazione (1966-2009), remembered for Piano
- Mahler I Image (2010), for orchestra
- Enrollment (2010), Six Pieces for Large Orchestra
- " Aulodie " (2011 ), Music for Oboe and Orchestra
- " About unlucky " (2011), paint over for large orchestra
- " ... The more I come ... " homage for chamber ensemble (2011)
- "Clouds" for large orchestra, string quartet (2012 /13)
- " Three Pieces " for clarinet solo ( 2012)
- " R. W. ," overpainting for large orchestra (2012 )
- Spiral, Concerto for Horn Quartet and Orchestra ( 2013)