Jun Märkl

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Jun Andreas Märkl (born February 11, 1959 in Munich ) is a German conductor . He was general music director in Saarbrücken and Mannheim, and he also directed the Orchester national de Lyon (2005–2011), the MDR Symphony Orchestra (2007–2011) and the Basque National Orchestra (2014–2017). In 2013, 2015 and 2017 he was Principal Conductor at the Pacific Music Festival .

Life

The son of concert master Josef Märkl (1928–2010) and a Japanese pianist was taught piano and violin by his parents at the age of four. In 1978 he began to study piano (with Karl Engel ) and violin as well as orchestral conducting (with Lutz Köhler ) at the Hanover University of Music and Theater . From 1980 to 1984 he was a member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie ( celesta and keyboard instruments). After his conducting and piano diplomas (1982 and 1985) and concert exams (1985), he went to Munich to study with Sergiu Celibidache and later at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where one of his mentors was Gustav Meier . In 1986 he was a prizewinner of the conductor's competition of the German Music Council , for whose conductor forum he later acted as a mentor. In 1987 he received a scholarship from the Boston Symphony Orchestra to study in Tanglewood with Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa .

As a solo repetitor and Kapellmeister he worked first at the Lucerne Theater , as second Kapellmeister from 1986 to 1989 at the Stadttheater Bern . In 1989 he became the first Kapellmeister at the Staatstheater Darmstadt , a year later he moved to the Nationaltheater Mannheim as first Kapellmeister and deputy general music director . From 1991 to 1994 Märkl was general music director of the Saarland State Theater in Saarbrücken. He had his international breakthrough in 1993 with his debut of Puccini's Tosca at the Vienna State Opera . From 1994 to 2000 he was opera and general music director in Mannheim. In 1996 he made his debut at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden / London with Wagner's Götterdämmerung (from Der Ring des Nibelungen ) and in 1999 at the Metropolitan Opera with Verdi's Il trovatore . Until 2006 he worked as a permanent conductor at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, where he made his debut in 1992 with Britten's Peter Grimes . In 1998 he performed Wagner's Walküre at the Munich Opera Festival . He conducted the complete Ring des Nibelungen at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and at the New National Theater Tokyo (for the first time in Japan). In 2007 he toured Japan with the Dresden Semperoper ; Wagner's Tannhäuser and the Singers' War rang out at Wartburg .

From 2005 to 2011 Märkl was Directeur Musical (successor to David Robertson ) of the Orchester national de Lyon , which he chaired for the first time in 2002. In 2009 he was a guest with the orchestra at the BBC Proms . In addition, from 2007 to 2012, he succeeded Fabio Luisi as chief conductor of the MDR symphony orchestra in Leipzig. In 2011 he performed with the orchestra at the International Mahler Festival . From 2014 to 2017 he was chief conductor of the Basque National Orchestra in San Sebastián. He has also worked as a guest conductor with leading orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Czech Philharmonic , the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich , the Cleveland Orchestra , the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra . Since 1997 he has been a regular guest conductor with the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo; in 2013, 2015 and 2017 he was Principal Conductor at the Pacific Music Festival in Japan. He has also been visiting professor at the Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo since 2014 .

Märkl focuses on the German symphonic and operatic repertoire as well as on French music (Debussy, Ravel and Messiaen). In addition, he performed works by contemporary composers to premiere, he had in 1993 at the German State Opera in Berlin with Bruno Cerchios Missa Aurea held the musical director. In the 1990s and 2000s he premiered works by Oskar Gottlieb Blarr , Violeta Dinescu , Detlev Glanert , Nikolaus A. Huber , Gija Kantscheli , Detlev Müller-Siemens , Younghi Pagh-Paan , Manfred Trojahn and Robert Wittinger , including commissioned compositions by Musical Academy of the National Theater Orchestra . He has also repeatedly performed pieces by the Japanese Toshio Hosokawa . He publishes over 50 records a. a. the complete recording of Debussy's orchestral music with the Orchester national de Lyon , published by Naxos .

His brother Key-Thomas Märkl (* 1963) is a member (2nd violin) of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; the sister-in-law Kim Märkl is active as a composer and writer.

Awards

Discography (selection)

Jun Märkl presented the following complete opera recordings:

literature

  • On the way to new horizons. In: TAKT, magazine of the Bavarian State Opera May / June 2002, pp. 12–15 ( PDF version )
  • Märkl, Jun. In: Brockhaus-Riemann Music Lexicon. CD-Rom, Directmedia Publishing, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89853-438-3 , p. 13466.
  • Märkl, Jun. In: Julia Spinola: The great conductors of our time. With a detailed lexicon part. Henschel, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89487-480-5 , p. 249 f.
  • Märkl, Jun. In: Kürschner's Musicians Handbook 2006 . KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-24212-3 , p. 289.
  • Märkl, Jun. In: Norbert Beleke (ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . XLX. Edition (2011/12), Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2011, ISBN 978-3-7950-2052-1 , p. 741.
  • Alain Pâris: Classical music in the 20th century: instrumentalists, singers, conductors, orchestras, choirs . 2nd expanded, completely revised edition, dtv, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-32501-1 , p. 488.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Storck : 40th years of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. In: Der Taktgeber 22 (2013), p. 18.
  2. ^ Il Trovatore {563} Metropolitan Opera House: 02/12/1999 , archives.metoperafamily.org, accessed November 10, 2018.
  3. ↑ Prom 10 , bbc.co.uk, accessed November 10, 2018.
  4. ↑ Jun Märkl is the new chief conductor of the MDR Sinfonieorchester , web.ard.de, accessed on November 10, 2018.
  5. ↑ Euskadi Orchester appoints Jun Märkl as chief conductor , pizzicato.lu, November 3, 2014.
  6. ↑ World premieres . In: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 154 (1993) 2, p. 83 f.
  7. ↑ Marchivum , Chronikstar , search “Jun Märkl” , accessed on November 10, 2018.
  8. ↑ World premieres , musische-akademie.de, accessed on November 10, 2018.
  9. ^ Karsten Steiger: Opera discography: directory of all audio and video recordings . 2nd, fully updated and expanded edition, Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-11784-8 , p. 295.
  10. ^ Karsten Steiger: Opera discography: directory of all audio and video recordings . 2nd, fully updated and expanded edition, Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-11784-8 , p. 595.
  11. ^ Karsten Steiger: Opera discography: directory of all audio and video recordings . 2nd, fully updated and expanded edition, Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-11784-8 , p. 358.
  12. ^ Karsten Steiger: Opera discography: directory of all audio and video recordings . 2nd, fully updated and expanded edition, Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-11784-8 , p. 516.
personal data
SURNAME Märkl, Jun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Märkl, Jun Andreas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich