Eckart Manke
Eckart Manke (* in Marburg an der Lahn ) is a German conductor and pianist .
Live and act
Eckart Manke studied orchestral conducting at the music academies in Heidelberg / Mannheim and Frankfurt am Main. His teachers included Donald Runnicles , Jiří Stárek , Bernhard Kontarsky and Hans Zender . While still studying, he made his debut as a guest conductor at the Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen. From 1989 to 1996 he was Kapellmeister at the Osnabrück Theater . From 1996 to 2001 he was first conductor and director of studies at the Stadttheater Bern . He has been a freelance conductor since 2001.
Since then guest conductors have taken him to the National Theater Mannheim ( Madama Butterfly ), the Theater Chemnitz ( Nabucco ), the Opera Danzig ( Der Rosenkavalier ), the Opera Stettin ( Fidelio , Der Rosenkavalier , La Sonnambula ), the Opera Burgas ( Die Walküre ), to the Northwest German Philharmonic and to the Southwest German Philharmonic Konstanz .
Eckart Manke has been teaching score playing and orchestral conducting for school and church musicians at the State University for Music Trossingen since 2003 and leads the international masterclasses on Lake Constance. He is the artistic director of the Höri Musiktage and has been in the same position at the “Collegium Musicum Ostschweiz” in St. Gallen since June 2017. In addition, Eckart Manke took over the musical direction of the Rathausoper Konstanz from 2019.
Manke is married to the singer Mechthild Bach and lives in Konstanz.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Good grades for “Traviata”. In: Bieler Tagblatt , November 5, 1998.
- ↑ operabase
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Lecturers on the university website, accessed on December 16, 2015.
- ^ Martin Preisser: New start with Haydn's "Seasons". In: St. Galler Tagblatt , September 15, 2017, accessed on November 26, 2017.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Manke, Eckart |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German conductor and pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marburg on the Lahn |