Enrique Ugarte

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Enrique Ugarte (born September 1, 1957 in Tolosa , Basque Country , Spain ) is a Basque musician and conductor who now lives in Germany.

Life

He studied accordion and oboe at the "Conservatorio Superior de Música" in San Sebastián . He then studied composition at the Munich University of Music, completing a master class . This was followed by training as a conductor with Sergiu Celibidache at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and Ernst Schelle in France. He began playing the accordion at the age of four, and at the age of seven he had his first public concert in front of 1,500 people. He works as a conductor and orchestrator at the NDR-Radiophilharmonie Hanover, among others, and performs regularly with Giora Feidman.

In 1994/1995 he wrote the music for the opera "Schattenkinder", in which the events of the Children's Crusades in 1212, are related to the plot developed by Jürgen Fuhrmann and from this written libretto. "Schattenkinder" was premiered in June 1995 in Munich / Germering with the Philharmonic of Nations, 14 soloists and three choirs. Jürgen Fuhrmann directed, Enrique Ugarte was the musical director.

From 2003 to 2006 he was musical director of the Ettlingen Castle Festival . As a conductor he works with the NDR-Radiophilharmonie, the WDR-Funkhausorchester, the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, the Komische Oper Berlin , the Philharmonischen Orchester Freiburg , the Basque Nationalorchester San Sebastián, Komische Oper Berlin, Nürnberger Symphoniker, the English Chamber Orchestra , the Tonkünstlerorchester Wien, Orquesta Sinfónica de Córdoba , the Philharmonic of Nations , and many more

His work now includes orchestrating film sound tracks with over 60 works including, for example, " The Miracle of Bern " with the NDR Radiophilharmonie and " Die Päpstin " with the German State Philharmonic of Rhineland-Palatinate . At the world premiere of Mike Oldfield's "Sound of the Spheres" he conducted the Basque National Orchestra at the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao.

He performed with Chick Corea , Mike Oldfield, Giora Feidman , Till Brönner , Klaus Doldinger, Max Mutzke , Mischa Maisky , Fazil Say and Daniel Müller-Schott .

Most of his compositions are commissioned works for film, music, opera, symphonic music and theater.

2016: On the 80th birthday of Klaus Doldinger , he conducted the WDR Funkhausorchester Köln in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf

In 2016 he conducted the Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra and played the accordion at the gala of the Zelt-Musik-Festival in honor of the Israeli clarinetist Giora Feidman

Awards

As an accordionist

  • European Champion in Tilburg, Holland
  • Vice World Champion of the World Accordion Championship in Recanati, Italy
  • Coupe Noel de Paris

Discography

  • 1994 2 men, 2 women - 4 problems !? , Soundtrack, German Film Orchestra Babelsberg / orchestration and conducting: Enrique Ugarte
  • 2000 The Solitude of the Crocodiles , original soundtrack, Prague Philharmonic Orchestra / orchestration and conducting: Enrique Ugarte
  • 2005 The White African , soundtrack, Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, orchestration and conducting: Enrique Ugarte
  • 1991: Accordion Champion [vinyl LP]
  • 2000: Valse Musette de Paris
  • 2001: 20 Best of Tango Argentino
  • 2001: Classics on the Accordion
  • 2002: Music of the Basques
  • 2004: Valse Musette double CD, Arc Music Productions (DA Music)
  • 2007: Cafe Paris
  • 2009: Moulin Rouge-Valse Musette
  • 2013: Cafe Musette
  • Angelica Camm (conductor: Enrique Ugarte)
  • Claudia Jung: "Winter Dreams" (Conductor: Enrique Ugarte)
  • Teassarini Chamber Orchestra - Radio BRNO (Soloist: Flavio Cucchi - Conductor: Enrique Ugarte)
  • "Ne me quitte pas" Dominique Horwitz sings Jacques Brel (NDR-Radiophilharmonie / arrangements and conducting: Enrique Ugarte)
  • "Olaf, der Elch" (read by Dirk Bach / Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg, conductor: Enrique Ugarte)
  • Benito Lertxundi (Basque National Orchestra, arrangements and conducting: Enrique Ugarte)
  • Ost-Rock Klassik (German Film Orchestra Babelsberg, conductor: Enrique Ugarte)
  • "Music of the Spheres" - Mike Oldfield / Guggenheim Performance (Basque National Orchestra / Conductor: Enrique Ugarte)
  • Capricho Sinfónico (Orquesta Concerto, Pamplona / composition, arrangements and conducting: Enrique Ugarte)
  • "Gershwin with Strings" / Tok Tok Tok and the NDR Popsorchestra (arrangements and conducting: Enrique Ugarte)
  • "End of the Rainbow" / Quadro Nuevo and the NDR-Pops Orchestra (arrangements and conducting: Enrique Ugarte)
  • Tim Fischer "Drei Sterne" / NDR-Radiophilharmonie / Arrangements and conducting: Enrique Ugarte
  • Maybebop "Monumental" / NDR-Radiophilharmonie / Arrangements and conducting: Enrique Ugarte
  • Kepa Junkera "Ipar haizea" / Basque National Orchestra / Conductor: Enrique Ugarte
  • Txistu Symphonic / Garikoitz Mendizabal / Bratislava Symphony Orchestra / Conductor: Enrique Ugarte
  • Max Mutzke "Experience" / NDR-Radiophilharmonie / Arrangements and conducting: Enrique Ugarte

Web links

Commons : Enrique Ugarte  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ And the Konzerthaus is raging , Georg Rudiger, Badische Zeitung, January 4, 2010, accessed August 18, 2016
  2. ^ Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Klaus Doldinger May 12, 2016 ( Memento from August 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ The best-placed birthday child , Georg Rudiger, Badische Zeitung, July 26, 2016, accessed August 18, 2016
  4. ↑ discogs
  5. ↑ Filmmusik 2000 ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmmusik2000.de
personal data
SURNAME Ugarte, Enrique
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish musician and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Tolosa , Basque Country , Spain