Alexander Rumpf (conductor, 1958)

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Alexander Rumpf (* 1958 in Stuttgart ) is a German conductor.

life and work

Alexander Rumpf was born in 1958 in Stuttgart into a family of musicians. He received early piano, trumpet, cello and organ lessons. After graduating from high school, he studied conducting in Düsseldorf and Protestant church music in Cologne. He received decisive impulses from Herbert von Karajan , whose assistant he was during the Easter and Summer Festival in Salzburg in the early 1980s.

In 1984 he started his first engagement at the Staatstheater Darmstadt under General Music Director Hans Drewanz . From 1992 to 1997 he was first conductor and deputy general music director at the Hagen Theater. From 1997 to 2001 he was committed to the same position at Theater Dortmund , where he conducted several German premieres and two world premieres. In the 2001/02 season he became general music director at the Oldenburg State Theater . Here he gained national attention for this theater through numerous opera premieres. He remained in this role until the end of the 2008/09 season. Rumpf left Oldenburg for the 2009/2010 season and tied himself especially to the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck until 2015 . During this time, he worked in Innsbruck as chief conductor for three years.

“Rumpf has made guest appearances with renowned German radio and symphony orchestras and at renowned opera houses such as the Cologne Opera and the Hanover State Opera . In 2002 he made his debut with “Der Fliegende Holländer” at the Deutsche Oper Berlin . Guest appearances abroad have taken him to Venezuela, Taiwan and the Moravian Philharmonic in Olomouc. He regularly conducted the BBC Symphony Orchestra London. In November 2004, Ligeti's “Le Grand Macabre” made his extremely successful US debut at the San Francisco Opera . In spring 2014 he conducted the new production of Emmerich Kálmán's "Countess Mariza" at the Vienna Volksoper . "

Rumpf has recordings of the operas “Kniefall in Warsaw” by Gerhard Rosenfeld , “Macbeth” by Ernest Bloch and “Der arme Heinrich” by Hans Pfitzner . In addition, he has released a CD with works by the Oldenburg court music director Albert Dietrich with the Oldenburg State Orchestra on the cpo label . Recordings of the concerts conducted by Rumpf with Britten's “War Requiem” and Janáček's “Mša Glagolskaja” together with Bruckner's “Te Deum” are available as in-house productions of the Oldenburg State Theater. The Innsbruck production of Catalani's “La Wally” was released on DVD on the Capriccio label .

In the 2015/16 winter semester, Alexander Rumpf was appointed professor of conducting at the Cologne University of Music and Dance .

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  1. ↑ Alexander Rumpf (biography)
personal data
SURNAME Hull, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart