Anton Marik

Anton Marik (* 1940 in Vienna ) is an Austrian conductor .

education

Marik had been a member of the Vienna Boys' Choir from the age of 8 and received his basic musical training there. After graduating from the humanistic grammar school, he studied conducting (with Hans Swarowsky , among others ), composition and organ at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts . Even during his studies, Marik worked as a piano accompanist for soloists at the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Philharmonic and gained his first experience as a choir and orchestra conductor.

Engagements

Marik began his career in 1965 as chief conductor of the Wiener Eisrevue . His first theater engagements took him to the Stadttheater Klagenfurt and the Landestheater Linz , where he rose from solo repetitor to choir director and finally to first Kapellmeister . In 1975 he took up a position as first conductor at the Bielefeld Theater , then went to the Staatstheater Kassel in this position , before doing the same job with the Dortmund Philharmonic from 1985 to 1989 . This was followed by employment as GMD at the theater of the city of Heidelberg until Marik returned to Dortmund in 1994, where he was initially appointed deputy GMD and from 1996 as GMD of the city of Dortmund. From August 2001 to July 2004 he was chief conductor of the WDR Rundfunkchor Köln in Cologne . He was then music director of the Koblenz Theater until 2009 .

In addition, Marik received numerous engagements as a guest conductor at home and abroad, took part in CD recordings and recordings for various radio companies and participated in numerous festivals, such as the International Brahms Festival in Milan , the Beethoven Festival in Budapest and the Koblenz Fortress Play at the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress .

Web links

• Works by and about Anton Marik in the catalog of the German National Library
• Information at the orchestra center ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )