Dietmar Kerschbaum

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Dietmar Kerschbaum (2015)

Dietmar Kerschbaum (born July 29, 1970 in Güssing , Burgenland ) is an Austrian culture and music manager, international festival director, Brucknerhaus director and artistic director of the LIVA (Linz event company) and Austrian interpreter of the German opera and concert field

Life

Kerschbaum studied trumpet from 1984 to 1989 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz . He then studied acting from 1990 to 1993 at the Prayner Conservatory in Vienna and simultaneously singing from 1993 to 1998 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Walter Berry . In 1998 Dietmar Kerschbaum completed his diploma studies with distinction.

His first engagements took him as a member of the ensemble to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf , as well as to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, where he played the roles of David ( Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg ), Tanzmeister ( Ariadne auf Naxos ), Tamino, Monostatos ( The Magic Flute ), Steuermann ( The Flying Dutchman ), Don Basilio ( Le nozze di Figaro ) and Jaquino ( Fidelio ) could be seen. He made his debut at the Vienna Volksoper as the youngest Eisenstein ( Die Fledermaus ) in the history of the house. This was followed by the title roles in Leoš Janáček's The Excursions of Mr. Brouček and Wilhelm Kienzl's Der Evangelimann .

In 2003 he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival in the role of Pedrillo in Stefan Herheim's new production of Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail . Another invitation to Salzburg followed as Monostatos under the baton of Riccardo Muti in the Magic Flute . In the same role he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York .

In addition, concert activities a. a. to the Suntory Hall Tokyo , the Auditório of the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon or the Avery Fisher Hall New York, where he performed in Bach's St. Matthew Passion under Kurt Masur . He also works regularly with the Wiener Konzerthaus and the Wiener Musikverein , where he recently interpreted A Florentine Tragedy by Alexander Zemlinsky and the Diary of a Missing Person by Leoš Janáček.

In addition to his opera career, he is since 2002 founder and artistic director of the international festival jOPERA jennersdorf festival summer , where he, among others, Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio staged and the roles of Max in Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz and the witch in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel took .

On December 5, 2017, he was inaugurated as artistic director of the Brucknerhaus in Linz .

Work as an international music manager and artistic director

  • 1993-95 head of the artistic office of the orchestra "Haydn Sinfonietta Vienna"
  • 2002- Founder and director of the international festival "jOPERA jennersdorf festivalsommer" (with 50 events per year in the fields of opera, children's opera, concert and visual arts)
  • 2009-13 founder and director of the international festival "treartes-KultTour im Dreiländerland" Austria-Slovenia-Hungary
  • 2010-12 Artistic Director - Singing section of the "International Summer Academy PragueWienBudapest", organized in cooperation with the "International Summer Academy of the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna"
  • 2011-14 overall management of the transnational EU project "TourKult"
  • 2016-18 Overall management of the transnational EU project "321go"
  • 2017 Chairman of the Board of the EFIS Foundation
  • since 2017 head of the Brucknerhaus Linz, artistic director of the Brucknerhaus Linz, Kuddelmuddel, Posthof, TipsArena

Activity as an opera singer

  • 1996–98 guest engagements at the Vienna Chamber Opera and with "Mozart in Schönbrunn"
  • 1999 debut at the Vienna Volksoper as Eisenstein ("Die Fledermaus")
  • 1999–2002 member of the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf
  • 2002–04 member of the ensemble at the State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin
  • 2003-06 engagement at the Salzburg Festival as Pedrillo ("The Abduction from the Seraglio")
  • 2007/08 debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York
  • 2008 debut at Avery Fisher Hall in Bach's “St. Matthew Passion” with the New York Philharmonic under Kurt Masur
  • 2008 engagement at the Salzburg Festival in “Die Zauberflöte” under the baton of Riccardo Muti
  • Guest engagements since 2008, including at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden, the Opéra Bastille in Paris, the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg, the Brussels Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon and at the Herbert von Karajan Whitsun Festival in the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

Regular concert activity, including at the Brucknerhaus Linz, the Wiener Konzerthaus and the Wiener Musikverein, the Auditório of the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon, the Avery Fisher Hall New York and the Suntory Hall Tokyo.

Cooperation with conductors and directors (selection)

Daniel Barenboim , Ivor Bolton , William Christie , Fabio Luisi , Kurt Masur , Riccardo Muti , Kent Nagano , Simone Young , Pierre Audi , Andrea Breth , Brigitte Fassbaender , Harry Kupfer , Christof Loy , Christoph Marthaler , Christine Mielitz , David Pountney , Otto Schenk , Peter Sellers and Julie Taymor .

Activity as a director

  • 1997–98 author, director and actor in the cycle “Opera with Children” at Theater Akzent, Vienna
  • 2011 Production of Mozart's "The Abduction from the Seraglio" as part of the "jOPERA jennersdorf festival summer"

Awards

media

CDs

  • Mozart Mass in C minor, Salzburg Festival
  • St. Matthew Passion, Avery Fisher Hall New York
  • Fidelio, Theater an der Wien
  • Concert Suntory Hall, Tokyo
  • Coronation mass, Mozart's 250th anniversary of death, St. Stephen's Cathedral (Vienna Boys' Choir)
  • Figaro's wedding, ORF Vienna
  • The land of smiles, Mörbisch Lake Festival
  • The Bartered Bride, Volksoper Vienna

DVDs

  • The Magic Flute, Metropolitan Opera New York
  • Abduction from the Seraglio, Salzburg Festival
  • Coronation mass, Mozart's 250th anniversary of death, St. Stephen's Cathedral (Vienna Boys' Choir)
  • La Traviata, La Monnaie Brussels
  • The land of smiles, Mörbisch Lake Festival
  • The horse trade, Volksoper Vienna
  • The Magic Flute, Sankt Margarethen Opera Festival

Web links

Commons : Dietmar Kerschbaum  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ orf.at: Dietmar Kerschbaum new Brucknerhaus boss ; accessed on February 14, 2017
  2. ↑ PK Dietmar Kerschbaum took office. Brucknerhaus Linz, December 5, 2017, accessed on February 9, 2018 .
  3. ^ Winners Operetta. Retrieved January 14, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Martin Wurglits: State Decoration of Honor for Opera Star Dietmar Kerschbaum. Retrieved on February 14, 2017 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Kerschbaum, Dietmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian tenor and festival director
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Gussing