Alexander Liebreich

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Alexander Liebreich (born May 25, 1968 in Regensburg ) is a German conductor .

Life

Liebreich founded the Regensburg Chamber Choir in his hometown at the age of 17. He studied Romance studies and musicology at the University of Regensburg , singing and conducting at the University of Music and Theater in Munich and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Michael Gielen . During his studies in Munich, he conducted the Abaco Orchestra at Munich University.

In 1996 he won the Kondraschin Prize, named after the Russian conductor Kirill Kondraschin (1914–1981), in the Netherlands and was assistant to Sir Colin Davis and Roberto Abbado at the Bavarian State Opera . Then Edo de Waart brought him to the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest in Hilversum , with whom he played a series of concerts in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam .

Liebreich was a guest conductor with numerous renowned Dutch and European orchestras such as the Concertgebouw Orchestra , the Orchester National de Belgique, the BBC Symphony Orchestra , the Munich Philharmonic , the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin . In autumn 2003 he was for the first time through the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) as a visiting professor at the University of Music and Dance in Pyongyang , North Korea .

From 2006 to 2016 Liebreich was chief conductor and artistic director of the Munich Chamber Orchestra . From 2011 to 2014 he was Artistic Director of the Tongyeong International Music Festival (TIMF) in South Korea . From 2012 to 2019 Alexander Liebreich was Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of the Polish Radio (NOSPR) based in Katowice and thus the first German chief conductor in Poland since 1945. From 2015 to 2018 he directed the international music festival "Katowice Kultura Natura". In November 2018 Liebreich took over the position of chief conductor and artistic director of the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra.

In December 2008, Alexander Liebreich was elected to the general assembly of the Goethe-Institut . In November 2012, the institute initiated a joint musical project with the Munich Chamber Orchestra and students from the Kim Won Gyun University of Music in Pyongyang, which was accompanied by Liebreich. In a project running from 2011 to 2016, Alexander Liebreich, together with the RIAS Chamber Choir and the Munich Chamber Orchestra, commissioned compositions that were juxtaposed with established works. From 2018 to 2020 he led the Richard Strauss Festival in Garmisch-Partenkirchen as the successor to Kammersängerin Brigitte Fassbaender .

His wife Simone Geiger was a dancer at the Bavarian State Ballet and the Nederlands Dans Theater .

Web links

Commons : Alexander Liebreich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tongyeong International Music Foundation , accessed July 11, 2015
  2. ↑ Katowice Kultura Natura , accessed June 8, 2017
  3. ↑ Alexander Liebreich at the Czech RSO, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, on May 8, 2019, accessed on January 1, 2020
  4. ↑ Alexander Liebreich at the Prague RSO, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, on April 11, 2018, 8:03 pm, accessed on April 11, 2018
  5. ↑ North Korea: The Munich Chamber Orchestra in Pyongyang ( Memento from December 2, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Liebreich, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg