Andris Nelsons

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Andris Nelsons (born November 18, 1978 in Riga , Latvian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Latvian conductor and 21st Gewandhaus Kapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra as well as chief conductor and music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra .

Live and act

Nelsons, son of a family of musicians, grew up in Riga. After taking trumpet lessons at the Emil Dārziņš School of Music of the Latvian Conservatory in Riga and having made his first conducting experience there, he studied at the Latvian Music Academy and then at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Alexander Titov. At the same time, he took master classes in conducting with Neeme Järvi and Jorma Panula . In addition, from 2002 he took private lessons with Mariss Jansons .

Andris Nelsons had his first job as a trumpeter in the orchestra of the Latvian National Opera . During this time he trained as a conductor. After completing his studies, he gained extensive international experience as an orchestra conductor, including in Finland and the USA (for example with the Chicago Civic Orchestra, where he conducted concerts with Gidon Kremer as a soloist).

In the 2003/2004 season, Andris Nelsons became chief conductor of the Latvian National Opera in Riga at the age of 24. Here he was involved as conductor in the production of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen , a joint project of the Latvian National Opera and the Bergen International Festival, which lasted until 2009 and started in 2006 with the performance of the Rheingold in Riga and Bergen. In the 2005/2006 season he made his debut with the BBC Philharmonic and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra . From 2006 to 2009 he was chief conductor of the Northwest German Philharmonic in Herford . In the same season he made his debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin with Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème . Since then he has made his debut at the Vienna State Opera , the Vienna Philharmonic , the Vienna Symphony , the Metropolitan Opera (New York), the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden , the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Berlin Philharmonic , the New York Philharmonic Orchestra , the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam , the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich , the Cleveland Orchestra , the Orchester National de France , the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden . In September 2008, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra named Nelsons as its twelfth chief conductor and music director. His contract began in the 2008/2009 season and was extended to 2013/2014.

He made his debut at the Bayreuth Festival at the opening on July 25, 2010 with Wagner's Lohengrin , staged by Hans Neuenfels . For the 2016 Festival he was to be the musical director of the new Parsifal production. However, he resigned from conducting in June 2016.

Nelsons has been chief conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since the 2014/2015 season. In summer 2014, Nelsons led the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. At the beginning of August 2015, the orchestra announced that the five-year contract had been turned into an eight-year contract. The musicians had been without a boss two seasons before.

On September 9, 2015, he was introduced as the designated Gewandhaus Kapellmeister to succeed Riccardo Chailly . Since it was not possible to take office early on May 1, 2017 for organizational reasons, Nelsons took over the office on February 1, 2018, but conducted the Gewandhausorchester in the 2016/2017 season. Nelsons was elected as Gewandhaus Kapellmeister until July 31, 2022. His inaugural concert took place on February 22, 2018 as part of the three festival weeks around the orchestra's 275th birthday, the ceremony for Nelsons' inauguration was on February 23, 2018 in Leipzig's Old Town Hall .

On January 1st, 2020 Andris Nelsons conducted the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic .

family

From 2009 to 2018 Andris Nelsons was married to the Latvian soprano Kristīne Opolais . In 2011 their daughter Adriana Anna was born.

Awards

In 2001 Andris Nelsons was honored with the Grand Music Prize of Latvia for outstanding achievements. In 2012, Nelsons received the Diapason d'or for his DVD or Blu-ray Disc of a live concert with the Concertgebouw Orchestra at the Lucerne Festival 2011, released in May 2012 , for Richard Wagner's Rienzi overture , the dance of the seven veils from Salome by Richard Strauss and the 8th Symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich were performed. In 2016 Andris Nelsons received the Grammy Award with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the category "Best Orchestral Performance 2015" for the album Shostakovich: Under Stalin's Shadow - Symphony No. 10 , recorded on Deutsche Grammophon . In 2016 Nelsons received the Dresden Music Festival Prize, endowed with 25,000 euros .

CDs

The label Orfeo International the recording was published in 2009 by Tchaikovsky's Symphony no. 5 and Hamlet Overture; the recording won the German Record Critics' Prize . The same prize was awarded to both the CD with the violin concertos by Beethoven and Berg with the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne and Arabella Steinbacher and his recording of Antonín Dvořák : Symphony No. 9 with the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio on the BR-Klassik label .

Movie

  • The conductor Andris Nelsons. Genius on Fire. Documentary, Germany, 2012, 52 min., Written and directed by Astrid Bscher, production: FritzFilm, WDR , arte , first broadcast: November 21, 2012 by arte

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Andris Nelsons is to be the 21st Gewandhaus Kapellmeister ( memento from September 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Press release of September 9, 2015, City of Leipzig, Communication Department (PDF; 567 kB).
  2. ↑ a b c City of Leipzig, Council meeting on November 19, 2015: Template VI-DS-01862-NF-01. Election of Andris Nelsons as Gewandhauskapellmeister of the city of Leipzig on February 1st, 2018.
  3. ^ Geoffrey Norris: The young ones seize the baton. In: The Daily Telegraph . November 26, 2007.
  4. ↑ “You need a psychiatrist!” In: Die Zeit . January 3, 2013 (interview with Rattle and Nelsons), accessed May 17, 2013.
  5. ↑ Angela Schader: Scandal at the Bayreuth Festival - Andris Nelsons leaves in anger. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . June 30, 2016.
  6. ↑ Manuel Brug: Andris Nelsons becomes chief conductor in Boston. In: The world . May 16, 2013, accessed May 17, 2013.
  7. ↑ Nelsons will remain chief conductor in Boston until 2022. The youngest chief conductor in 100 years receives an eight-year contract. In: Deutschlandradio Kultur . 4th August 2015.
  8. ↑ Chailly's successor is coming to Leipzig in 2018. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . November 11, 2015, p. 1.
  9. ↑ Werner Kopfmüller: Fall of Hell and Ascension. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung. 24./25. February 2018, p. 13.
  10. ↑ Jan Emendörfer: “You leave me one of the best orchestras in the world”. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung. 24./25. February 2018, p. 1.
  11. ↑ Harald Eggebrecht: Leipziger Perspektiven. Andris Nelsons becomes the Gewandhaus Kapellmeister. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . September 11, 2015, p. 14.
  12. ↑ Kristine Opolais: Personal Statement of March 27, 2018 ( Memento of March 27, 2018 in the Internet Archive ).
  13. ↑ Mirko Weber: Singing as life . In: The time . No. 40 , September 27, 2012, ISSN  0044-2070 , p. 71–72 ( zeit.de [accessed March 27, 2018]).
  14. ↑ Taylor Swift wins Grammy for Album of the Year. In: The Standard . February 16, 2016.
  15. ^ The conductor Andris Nelsons. Summary at ARD.de .
personal data
SURNAME Nelsons, Andris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian conductor
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga , Latvian SSR , Soviet Union