Roland Bader
Roland Bader ( born August 24, 1938 in Wangen im Allgäu) is a German conductor.
Life
Roland Bader studied one semester Church Music in Rottenburg am Neckar, graduated from the so-called C- test for organists and then moved to the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart, where he organ ( Nowakowski ), piano ( Lautner ), Viola ( Kessinger ) and composition ( Joh.Nep. David ) studied. Hans horns, 1958-65 principal conductor of the Stuttgart Philharmonic, trained him in lessons at the conductor.
After his training with final exam A in church music Bader devoted himself as a choirmaster and organist of the church music and the great oratorios and symphonic music. Bader was a full-time church musician in Böblingen ( 1960-67 ) and Ludwigsburg ( 1967-70 ).
He founded in 1966 the Philharmonia Vocal Ensemble Stuttgart ( " semi-professional choir" ) and the Philharmonia Chamber Orchestra Stuttgart (members of large Stuttgart Orchestra), the " Böblingen Bach Evenings" (1960 ) and the " Philharmonia concerts " Ludwigsburg (1967). 1963 was the first recording of Mendelssohn's Elijah for VOX New York with the Stuttgart Philharmonic, the Böblingen Liederkranz and the Bach Choir Böblingen. This was followed by recordings of A German Requiem by Brahms and Mozart's Requiem, Schumann's Missa sacra, CM v. Weber's Jubilee Exhibition and the measurement of Conradin Kreutzer Kirchner exhibition.
1970 took over Bader for the first time a major managerial position as musical director of the Municipal Theater in Oberhausen. His repertoire expanded in this time to the opera and the operetta, in which he not only preferred the traditional plants. Other stations in his professional life were food - Lecturer at the Folkwang School from 1971 to 1976 - and Berlin - Director of Music and director of the choir of St. Hedwig's Cathedral Berlin - 1974 to 1991 he led the chorus of Bonner Bach -Gemeinschaft ( 1972-1975. ) and was the founder and director of the Episcopal Church Music School in Berlin ( 1975-1987 ). Numerous radio recordings with the Choir of St. Hedwig's Cathedral Berlin and tours to USA, Australia and Japan stand out this time. With the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the choir of St. Hedwig's Cathedral Roland Bader conducted 17 times at the Berlin Philharmonie choral works by Verdi, Rossini, Bizet, Brahms, Elgar, Tchaikovsky, Berlioz and Beethoven.
He was also known for his LP and CD recordings of works by Leopold Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( The Obligation of the First Commandment ), Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart ( Piano Concertos ), Friedrich Kiel ( Star of Bethlehem ), Max Bruch (show), Max Reger 's Requiem, Latin Requiem, Op 145a, Dies Irae, ETA Hoffmann. ( Opera Undine and Miserere ), Otto Nicolai (Te Deum ), Richard Wetz ( Symphony No. 1 ), Bacewicz ( Symphony No. 3), Henryk Mikołaj Górecki ( Symphony No. 1 ), Stanisław Moniuszko ( opera overtures ) Boris Ljatoschinskij ( symphonies Nos. 4 and 5), and others.
Bader also conducted the RSO Berlin (today DSO), the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in a memorial concert on 3 October 1990, Tokyo Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Tokyo, Seoul Philharmonic, Manila Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony, Melbourne Symphony, Edmonton Symphony ( Canada ), residence Orchestra the Hague, Limburg Sinfonieorkest Maastricht, Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, NDR Symphony Orchestra in Hamburg, Symphony Orchestra of the WDR Köln, Symphony Orchestra of the SWR Baden -Baden Symphony Orchestra of the Saarland Radio, Radio Philharmonie Hannover, Cologne Philharmonic, Orchestra of the Beethoven Hall, Bonn, Duisburg Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart Philharmonic, radio Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonic Orchestra Krakow (where he was three years chief conductor ).
Bader worked as guest conductor at the State Opera Krakow, Lodz State Opera and State Opera Ukrainian Kharkov ( international opera tours ); as a guest and at the Budapest State Opera (La Traviata ).
Three years he was a summer school - conductor at the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston- Salem. Youth Orchestra working with the RIAS Youth Symphony Orchestra Berlin and the State Youth Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Roland Bader is at the Toho Academy of Music in Japan since 1988 Visiting Professor.
He received for his recording of Mozart's spiritual Singspiel The Obligation of the First Commandment with his record company (then SCHWANN ) the price of the Viennese musical clock.