Errico Fresis

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Errico Fresis ( Greek Ερρίκος Φρεζής Errikos Frezis , * 1963 in Volos ), is a German-Greek conductor and pianist . Since 2003 he has been professor and musical director of the opera department and dean of the performing arts faculty at the Berlin University of the Arts .

Life

Fresis began in 1988 as a répétiteur at the Vienna State Opera , where he was also the assistant to the musical director in the opera studio. In 1990 he went to the Vienna Volksoper as a répétiteur , and in 1992 as a conductor and répétiteur at the Ulm Theater . In 1994 he became Kapellmeister and director of studies at the Saarbrücken State Theater , where he also taught at the University of Music and comparative literature at the university. In Saarbrücken he founded the ensemble for new music PanArte.

Fresis directed performances of the opera Drei Schwestern by Péter Eötvös with the symphony orchestra of the BBC as part of the festival in Edinburgh, the world premiere of the music theater Viva la Vida by Minas Alexiadis ( Alte Oper Frankfurt) with members of the Ensemble Modern as part of the Frankfurter Feste, concerts with Works by Monteverdi and Nono with the Klangforum Wien in the Wiener Konzerthaus, Eötvös and Alessandro Scarlatti in the Festival for Early Music of the WDR in Herne, the world premiere of the music theater Voyeur by Jörg Mainka at the Stuttgart State Opera and the world premiere of the music theater swin swin by Tobias Schneid, which was also broadcast by 3sat .

As an opera conductor, guest performances have taken him to the Teatro Massimo Bellini (Catania), the National Theater Mannheim , the German National Theater Weimar , the Graz Opera , the State Operas in Thessaloniki and Athens, the Ponte de Lima Festival (Portugal) and to Bienne and Soleure in Switzerland. As a conductor of symphonic repertoire, he conducted concerts and recordings with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Vincenzo Bellini Symphony Orchestra (Catania), the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Freiburg Philharmonic, the ensemble recherche and the New Vocal Soloists Stuttgart at the La Sapienza University in Rome, the Athens State Orchestra, the Thessaloniki State Orchestra, the Thessaloniki City Orchestra, the Orchester d'Harmonie de Friborg (Switzerland) and in festivals such as Hitzacker, Kurt Weill (Dessau), Menuhin in Gstaad, at the Hanover Biennale and at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris .

Fresis was Deputy General Music Director of the Freiburg Theater from 2000 to 2003. There he directed the opera productions and symphony concerts.

In 2003 he was appointed professor at the Berlin University of the Arts . There he is the musical director of the opera department, director of the singing / musical theater course and vice dean of the performing arts faculty. At the University of the Arts in Berlin, he directed performances of Don Giovanni ( Giuseppe Gazzaniga ), scenes from Mozart's life ( Albert Lortzing ), Berlin Requiem and Down in the Valley ( Kurt Weill ), the wax museum ( Karl Amadeus Hartmann ), the State Theater ( Kagel ) , The dictator ( Krenek ), abstract opera ( Blacher ), Europeras ( John Cage ), Copernicus ( Claude Vivier ) and Limonen from Sicily ( Manfred Trojahn ). He has also conducted concerts with works by Alban Berg , Luigi Nono , Mathias Spahlinger , John Cage and Hans Wütrich.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CV Errico Fresis on the website of the Berlin University of the Arts. Retrieved May 13, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Fresis, Errico
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frezis, Errikos; Φρεζής, Ερρίκος (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Greek conductor and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Volos