Frank Beermann

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Frank Beermann (born March 13, 1965 in Hagen ) is a German conductor .

Life

Frank Beermann was born in Hagen in Westphalia in 1965 and studied at the Detmold University of Music . Afterwards he worked as Kapellmeister at the Staatstheater Darmstadt and the Theater Freiburg .

From 1997 to 2002 he had a residency contract with the Hamburg State Opera and was also a guest at the Deutsche Oper Berlin , the Royal Stockholm Opera , the Bonn Opera and the Marseille Opera .

After the successful performance of Gaetano Donizetti's Anna Bolena in Hamburg, he focused on Italian bel canto and directed a bel canto cycle at the Leipzig Opera between 2002 and 2005.

In 2006 Beermann recorded all Mozart piano concertos with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and the pianist Matthias Kirschnereit . That year he also recorded the symphonies 1, 2 and 5 by Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek with the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt and the Bern Symphony Orchestra . During this time, Beermann was able to further expand the collaboration with the CD labels cpo and Arte Nova, which had existed since 2000 .

General Music Director in Chemnitz (2007-2016)

In 2007 he was appointed General Music Director of the Robert Schumann Philharmonic by General Director Bernhard Helmich . Beermann continued his work after 2013 under Helmich's successor Christoph Dietrich until the end of the 2015/2016 season.

Operas

For the Chemnitz Opera , Beermann brought numerous seldom played or forgotten works, as well as numerous premieres, to the stage, mainly during Bernhard Helmich's directorship. A performance of Prokofiev's opera Die Liebe zu den Drei Orangen (Direction: Dietrich Hilsdorf ), which was awarded the German Theater Prize Der Faust , was already performed in the 2005/2006 season under Beermann's musical direction .

In 2007/2008 this was followed by Giacomo Puccini's opera Manon Lescaut , which was published on DVD by Arthaus Musik , and Otto Nicolai's opera Il templario , the revised version of Die Templer .

The opera Love And Other Demons by Peter Eötvös was first performed in Germany in the 2008/2009 season (director: Dietrich Hilsdorf); also the Hans Pfitzner opera Die Rose vom Liebesgarten (director: Jürgen Weber ).

In the following season (2009/2010), Franz Schreker's opera Der Schmied von Gent (director: Ansgar Weigner) followed.

In 2010/2011 Reznicek's opera Petrol (director: Martin Duncan) premiered and with the opera Die Heimkehr des Verbands (director: Philipp Kochheim ) another rarely performed work by Otto Nicolai came to the Chemnitz stage.

In the following season Richard Strauss ' opera Die Schweigsame Frau (directed by Gerd Heinz ) followed, which was subsequently recorded for publication on CD due to its success.

In 2012/2013, the revised version of Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Vasco de Gama (director: Jakob Peters-Messer ), which was awarded the ECHO Klassik and attracted attention across Germany , finally followed . It was also Torsten Rasch's opera The Duchess of Malfi (directed by Dietrich Hilsdorf) first performed in Germany.

The performances, which had their premiere in Chemnitz during these six years, were all broadcast by Deutschlandradio Kultur or MDR Figaro and most of them published on CD by cpo .

After Christoph Dittrich took over the management, the opera Le Grand Macabre by György Ligeti (director: Walter Sutcliffe) followed in 2013/2014 - with a set by Georg Baselitz - and in Beermann's last season (2015/2016) Erich Wolfgang Korngold's opera Die tote City .

Concerts and recordings

In Chemnitz he played - again in collaboration with Matthias Kirschnereit - all of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's piano concertos , including the world premiere recording of the reconstructed E minor concerto. In 2009 Beermann received the ECHO Klassik music award for this CD recording. Beermann also recorded numerous works by Robert Schumann with the Robert Schumann Philharmonic , including all of the symphonies, including the rarely played Zwickau Symphony , and, in collaboration with Ulf Wallin, all works for violin and orchestra. A CD is dedicated to the work of Hermann Hans Wetzler . He also recorded the missing symphonies 3 and 4 by Reznicek.

In 2011 and 2013 Beermann directed the world premieres of Torsten Rasch's Wouivres - Four pieces of orchestra and Das Haus der Temperamente. In 2013 Beermann also conducted the world premiere of the Requiem for solos, choir and orchestra by Bruno Maderna .

In 2011/2012, Beermann performed all nine symphonies by Ludwig van Beethoven under the title Encounters with Beethoven within two weeks at different locations in Chemnitz in order to attract new concert-goers. With this program, the Robert Schumann Philharmonic then performed under his direction at the Klassiksommer in Hamm . In 2014/2015 the project was continued with Franz Schubert's symphonies .

Work as a freelance conductor from 2016

After leaving Chemnitz, Beermann performed with the Orchester de Chambre de Lausanne and the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie with works by Miaskovsky , Shostakovich , Schumann , Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky .

Between 2015 and 2018, Beermann worked on part of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen ( Das Rheingold (2015), Die Walküre (2016), Siegfried (2017) and Götterdämmerung (2018)) with the Northwest German Philharmonic in Minden . In 2019 the complete tetralogy will be performed.

In 2017 he gave several concerts with the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie. Beermann headed a. a. several concerts of the "KlassikSommers" in Hamm . In addition to works by Smetana and Dvořák , he conducted Mozart's Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra with the soloists Rie Koyama (bassoon) and Matthias Kirschnereit (piano) as well as the German Chamber Academy Neuss. He also performed Carl Orff's Carmina Burana . He also directed Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame at the Stuttgart Opera and conducted the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Three Choirs Festival with works by Richard Strauss , Torsten Rasch and Leoš Janáček .

In 2018 he conducted Heinrich Marschner's romantic opera Hans Heiling several times at the Aalto Theater in Essen .

Recordings (selection)

Concerts and symphonies

Operas and operettas, requiem

  • Lehár : The blue mazur ; Johanna Stojkovic, Julia Bauer, Johan Weigel, Jan Kobow , Hans Christoph Begemann , Chamber Choir of the Singakademie Frankfurt, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt (Oder), cpo, 2007.
  • Maderna : Requiem ; Diana Tomsche, Kathrin Göring, Bernhard Berchtold, Renatus Meszar, MDR-Rundfunkchor Leipzig , Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie, Capriccio, 2013.
  • Meyerbeer : Vasco de Gama , Bernard Berchtold, Claudia Sorokina, Pierre-Yves Pruvot, Guibee Yang, Kouta Räsänen, Rolf Broman, Chor der Oper Chemnitz, Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie, cpo, 2014.
  • Nicolai : The Exile's Return ; Julia Bauer, Hans Christoph Begemann, Bernhard Bechtold, Tiina Penttinen, Chor der Oper Chemnitz, Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie, cpo, 2016.
  • Nicolai : Il templario ; Kouta Räsänen, Stanley Jackson, Judith Kuhn, Andreas Kindschuh, Hans Christoph Begemann, André Riemer, Tiina Penttinen, Chor der Oper Chemnitz, Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie, cpo, 2009.
  • Puccini : Manon Lescaut ; Astrid Weber, Heiko Trinsinger, Zurab Zurabishvili , Kouta Räsänen, Edward Randall, Martin Gäbler, Tiina Penttinen, Jürgen Mutze, Matthias Winter, Arthaus Musik, 2008.
  • Schreker : The blacksmith of Ghent ; Oliver Zwarg , Undine Drei 30, André Riemer, Edward Randall, Martin Gäbler, Judith Kuhn, Viktor Sawaley, Chor der Oper Chemnitz, Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie, cpo, 2012.
  • Strauss, R .: The silent woman ; Franz Hawlata , Monika Straube, Andreas Kindschuh, Bernard Berchtold, Julia Bauer, Guibee Yang, Tiina Penttinen, Matthias Winter, Kouta Räsänen, Martin Gäbler, Chor der Oper Chemnitz, Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie, cpo, 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b biography on klassik-heute.com
  2. ↑ Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus - The Piano Concerts - Kirschnereits Mozart on klassik.com
  3. ^ Reznicek, Emil Nikolaus von - Symphonies 2 & 5 - Braked exuberance on klassik.com
  4. ↑ Reznicek, Emil Nikolaus von - Symphony No. 1 in D minor ´Tragical´ - variety as a finding on klassik.com
  5. ↑ The head of the Philharmonie leaves Chemnitz in 2016 on freiepresse.de
  6. ↑ Der Faust 2007 on buehnenverein.de
  7. ^ Puccini, Giacomo - Manon Lescaut - Gripping Puccini on klassik.com
  8. ↑ Nicolai, Otto - Il Templario - Detective on Klassik.com
  9. ↑ Schreker, Franz - The Blacksmith of Gent - An opera for everyone on klassik.com
  10. ^ "The homecoming of the banished" - Another opera by Otto Nicolai in Chemnitz on deutschlandradiokultur.de
  11. ↑ Quiet now! - The return of a masterpiece huffingtonpost.de
  12. ↑ “Schweigsame Frau” goes around the world ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2016 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. on sz-online.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sz-online.de
  13. ↑ List of the award winners ( memento of March 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on echoklassik.de
  14. ↑ Meyerbeer's "Vasco de Gama" in Chemnitz - a stream of fire goes through the house on faz.net
  15. ↑ Effect with cause After 148 years: The Chemnitz Opera reconstructs Meyerbeer's work "Vasco da Gama", known as "African woman" - for five hours on welt.de.
  16. ↑ Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix - Complete Piano Concertos - Plea for Mendelssohn's Piano Concertos on klassik.com
  17. ↑ The winners of the Classic Echo 2009 on welt.de
  18. ↑ Schumann, Robert - Complete Symphonies - Much more than a sounding Urtext edition on klassik.com
  19. ↑ Schumann, Robert - Works for Violin & Orchestra - Artful and irritatingly beautiful on klassik.com
  20. ↑ Reznicek, Emil Nikolaus von - Symphonies No. 3 & 4 - With a light hand on klassik.com
  21. ↑ German premiere in Chemnitz on deutschlandradiokultur.de
  22. ↑ Sixth comes before fifth ( memento of the original from May 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. on sz-online.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sz-online.de
  23. ↑ Klassiksommer Hamm: Beermann includes Beethoven cycle on wa.de (Westfaelischer indicators)
  24. ↑ The ring in Minden
  25. ^ Homepage of the "KlassikSommer" Hamm ( Memento from June 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Beermann, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen