Christoph Altstaedt

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Christoph Altstaedt (born January 19, 1980 in Heidelberg ) is a German conductor .

Life

Altstaedt was born in Heidelberg to German-French parents .

As a young student he studied piano with Edmundo Lasheras and conducting with Joachim Harder at the Detmold University of Music . He also received piano lessons from Karl-Heinz Kämmerling in Hanover. To study, he switched to the piano class of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. In 2002 he continued his studies at the "Hanns Eisler" music college in Berlin. Hans-Dieter Baum and Alexander Vitlin were among his teachers. Since 2003 he has received a scholarship from the Conductors' Forum of the German Music Council . a. Courses with Kurt Masur , Pierre Boulez (as part of the Luzern Festival Academy), Sebastian Weigle , Johannes Kalitzke and Jorma Panula . In 2008 and 2009 he was one of the three conductors invited to Tanglewood as fellows . There he assisted James Levine in " Don Giovanni ".

He made his debut as an opera conductor in 2006 at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz , where he was hired by Klaus Schultz as a répétiteur last season . There he conducted “ Gianni Schicchi ”, “ The Magic Flute ”, “ The Abduction from the Seraglio ”, “ Werther ”, “ Hansel and Gretel ”, “ La Traviata ” and “Cinderella” by Peter Maxwell Davies .

In 2010 he began his activity as Kapellmeister at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein , where he developed his repertoire for “ Le nozze di Figaro ”, “ Così fan tutte ”, “ La Bohème ”, “ Luisa Miller ”, “ Carmen ”, “ Il barbiere di Siviglia ”and“ The Princess and the Pea ”by Ernst Toch expanded. In addition, an intensive collaboration began with the Ballett am Rhein under Martin Schläpfer and the choreographers Mats Ek , Hans van Manen and Nils Christie. He was a guest a. in Luxemburg with Massenet's “ Manon ”, in Glyndebourne and Zurich with “ Die Entführung aus dem Serail ” and in Basel with “ Die Zauberflöte ”.

From 2011 to 2013 he took over the position of chief conductor at the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck , where he conducted Cherubini's “ Médée ” and Mozart's “ Idomeneo ”. In the symphonic field he worked a. a. with Gidon Kremer , Steven Isserlis , Mark Padmore and Radek Baborák .

From 2004 to 2011 he directed the Junge Klangforum Mitte Europa, which he founded : a youth orchestra made up of music students from the three countries of Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany. a. was awarded the “ Praemium Imperiale ” and the “ Marion Dönhoff Prize ”. Christoph Altstaedt is involved in youth work and directed the orchestra of the Julius Stern Institute of the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), the state youth orchestras in Saarland and Berlin as well as the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie , the Bundesjugendorchester and the Junge Norddeutsche Philharmonie.

In parallel to his operatic career, he conducted the symphonic concert hall orchestra Berlin , the Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart of the SWR , the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra , the German Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern , the MDR Symphony Orchestra , the Oslo Philharmonic , the Royal Scottish National Orchestra , the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra , the Musikkollegium Winterthur , Ensemble Resonanz , Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra , Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música. Radio productions u. a. with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra are available.

Christoph Altstaedt studied human medicine at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and received his license to practice medicine in 2016 .

Discography

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Conductors' forum . In: www.dirigentenforum.de. Retrieved November 21, 2016 .
  2. ^ James Levine Conducts Don Giovanni - Berkshire Fine Arts. In: www.berkshirefinearts.com. Retrieved November 21, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Operabase. In: operabase.com. Retrieved November 21, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Classical and Opera Reviews | musicOMH. In: www.musicomh.com. Retrieved November 21, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Peter Hagmann, music critic. In: www.peterhagmann.com. Retrieved November 21, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Young Sound Forum Middle Europe: Praemium Imperale 2004. (No longer available online.) In: www.ysce.eu. Archived from the original on December 2, 2016 ; accessed on November 21, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ysce.eu
  7. ↑ Young Sound Forum Middle Europe: Marion Dönhoff Förderpreis 2005. (No longer available online.) In: www.ysce.eu. Archived from the original on December 2, 2016 ; accessed on November 21, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ysce.eu
  8. ^ Bundesjugendorchester, Deutscher Musikrat, Bonn, Germany: Conductors. In: www.bundesjugendorchester.de. Retrieved November 21, 2016 .
  9. ↑ JNP . In: Young North German Philharmonic . March 4, 2015 ( Junge-norddeutsche.de [accessed on November 21, 2016]).

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personal data
SURNAME Altstaedt, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg