Anthony Bramall

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Anthony Bramall (born 1957 in London ) is a British conductor .

Career

Bramall studied singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and then completed a postgraduate degree in conducting with Maestro Vilem Tausky. In parallel, he was musical director of the Southend Symphony Orchestra and the New Westminster Chorus.

In 1981 he became assistant to the general music director of the Pforzheim City Theater . As part of the 3rd International Hans Swarowsky Conducting Competition in Vienna, he was awarded the special prize for the interpretation of 20th century music in 1984. In 1987 he made his debut with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra at Konzerthaus Wien. In 1985 he was Kapellmeister at the Augsburg Municipal Theaters. From 1986 to 1989 he was director of studies and assistant to Bruno Weil at the Augsburg Theater . In 1989 he went to the Landestheater Coburg as 1st Kapellmeister . In 1990 he got an engagement as Kapellmeister and later became 1st Kapellmeister at the Lower Saxony State Theater in Hanover . There he worked closely with the NDR Symphony Orchestra in Hanover. In 1995 Bramall became general music director at Theater Krefeld and Mönchengladbach . From 2002 to 2008 he was general music director at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe . From 2008 to 2011 he was professor of the conducting class for music theater at the Franz Liszt Weimar University of Music . At the beginning of the 2011/12 season Bramall became a permanent guest conductor at the Leipzig Opera . Since the 2012/13 season he was Deputy General Music Director of the Leipzig Opera.

Since September 2017 he has been chief conductor of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz , Munich.

Guest engagements

Guest engagements have taken him to the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Semperoper Dresden (including the musical direction of the new productions "La Cenerentola" and "Madama Butterfly"), the Hanover State Opera, the State Theater on Gärtnerplatz Munich, the RIAS Radio Orchestra Berlin. He has also made guest appearances as a conductor in Gothenburg, Bonn, Darmstadt, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Hanover, Karlsruhe, Wiesbaden, Bratislava, Bucharest, Posen and at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra Japan, in Mexico City and in the USA .

Discography

Bramall recorded three CDs with the Slovak Philharmonic and the Slovak Radio Orchestra, followed by radio recordings with the RIAS Orchestra Berlin.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://operabase.com/a/Anthony_Bramall/de/1541
  2. ↑ http://www.oper-leipzig.de/de/programm/person/anthony-bramall/7640
  3. ↑ https://www.staatsoper.de/biographien/detail-seite/bramall-anthony.html
personal data
SURNAME Bramall, Anthony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH London