Alexander Mayer (conductor)

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Alexander Mayer

Alexander Mayer (born March 20, 1973 in Saarbrücken ) is a German conductor .

Life

Alexander Mayer studied church music from 1992 to 2000 at the Saar College of Music with Leo Krämer , orchestral conducting with Max Pommer and with Neeme Järvi , Jorma Panula , Gennady Rozhdestvensky and Toshiyuki Kamioka .

Alexander Mayer began his international career in 2003 when he won the International Conducting Competition in Tokyo . Since then he has performed with the Basel Symphony Orchestra , Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino , Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese, Zugló Filharmónia Budapest,  Philharmonic Orchestra Luxembourg , Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Radio Symphony Orchestra Saarbrücken (today: Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Philharmonischen Kaiserslautern ), Orchestras in Tokyo and Osaka, Yucatan Symphony Orchestra, Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra , Thuringia Philharmonic Gotha and the Hamburger Camerata .

From 2000 to 2010 Alexander Mayer was music director of the University of Trier, from 1999 to 2013 chief conductor of the symphony orchestra of the district of  Kaiserslautern .

He is the founder and was artistic director of the Ricercare Chamber Orchestra for many years: with this ensemble he commissioned a large number of works from young composers as well as realized cross-over projects that were regularly recorded by Saarland radio .

In 2008 Alexander Mayer was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the State Youth Symphony Orchestra Saar . In 2008/2009 he was assistant to Donald Runnicles and John Nelson at the Geneva Opera, responsible for the productions of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes and Carl Maria von Weber's Freischütz . Alexander Mayer has been music director of the Ensemble Symphonique Neuchâtel (Switzerland) since the 2010/2011 season , and from 2013–2017 he also held the same position at the Sinfonietta de  Lausanne .

In addition to his conducting work, he appears as an organist and chamber musician .

The artists he has worked with so far include Gautier Capuçon , Tzimon Barto , Gustav Rivinius , Alexei Lyubimow , Ramón Ortega Quero and Alexander Evgenjewitsch Kobrin . He also has a close artistic partnership with the Klezmer band Kolsimcha .

Honourings and prices

  • 2003: Winner of the Tokyo International Music Competition for Conducting (patron: Seiji Ozawa ) and finalist at the Eduardo Mata International Conducting Competition in Mexico City .
  • 2004 and 2008: In cooperation with the Symphony Orchestra of the district of Kaiserslautern: Winner of the German orchestra competition
  • 2010: Special Prize MusikKultur Rheinland-Pfalz and invitation to the David-Oistrach-Festival under Neeme Järvi .

World premieres / premieres

  • 2002: Tobias Schwencke: Concerto for clarinet and 15 strings
  • 2003: Christof Thewes : “Cosmic Picnic” for alto saxophone and orchestra
  • 2004: Tobias Schwencke: “Reminiscences” for large orchestra
  • 2006: Bernd Thewes: "abwendigMACHT" for mezzo-soprano and orchestra
  • 2006: Bernd Thewes: Instrumentation of the piano sonata D 960 by F. Schubert
  • 2006: Claas Willeke “Ruhender Engel” for cor anglais and orchestra
  • 2007: Jörg Nonnweiler: "Traumklang sung II"
  • 2008: Stefan Scheib : "here and there"
  • 2009: Peter Bannister: "Evening sensation"
  • 2011: Victor Cordero: "Instants"
  • 2013: Sofia Gubaidulina : “Fachwerk” - Swiss premiere
  • 2013: Nebojsa Zivkovic: "Obsession"
  • 2015: Olivier Truan / Kolsimcha : "Tewje"
  • 2016: Salvatore Sciarrino : "Il giornale della Necropoli" (Italian premiere)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Mayer Conductor ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, English )
  2. ↑ dasorchester.de. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on March 13, 2020 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.dasorchester.de
  3. ↑ a b Mayer in the classic magazine
personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken