Frauke Roth
Frauke Roth (born March 16, 1967 in Hamburg ) is a German artistic director and cultural manager . She has been the artistic director of the Dresden Philharmonic since 2015 .
Life
Frauke Roth grew up with two sisters in Hamburg. After graduating from high school, she studied flute at the Freiburg University of Music and in London. After engagements in Pforzheim and Rostock, she passed her concert exam in 1999 at the "Hanns Eisler" music academy in Berlin.
Frauke Roth has three children and lives with her family in Dresden.
Professional career
After working as a flautist with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen , she became manager of the Ensemble Oriol Berlin in 1998. In 2000 she established this ensemble together with the Potsdam Persius Ensemble as the house orchestra of the newly opened Nikolaisaal in Potsdam . As managing director, she merged the two ensembles to form the Potsdam Chamber Academy , which began operating in 2001.
In 2015 she became artistic director of the Dresden Philharmonic . She developed the operator and presentation concept for the new concert hall in the Kulturpalast Dresden , which was approved by the city council in 2016. Under her leadership, the Dresden Philharmonic also took on the letting of the concert hall to third parties.
During her tenure, she expanded and profiled the range of concerts offered by the Dresden Philharmonic and the Philharmonic Choirs as well as smaller formats: concert introductions, after concert lounges, rehearsals and workshop discussions for all age groups. Discovering new forms of concerts such as phil and opening up to film, world music and jazz go back to her initiative. Since taking office, the number of visitors to the Dresden Philharmonic has grown significantly. She created the framework for the complete recording of all symphonies by Beethoven and Shostakovich with the Dresden Philharmonic under the direction of Michael Sanderling at Sony Classical (2019) and made further recordings together with the incumbent chief conductor and artistic director Marek Janowski : “Cavalleria rusticana” by Pietro Mascagni (Pentatone, 2020), “Il Tabarro” by Puccini (Pentatone, expected November 2020). A recording of “Fidelio” by Ludwig van Beethoven is currently being made.
Memberships
- since 2017 member of the International Concert Hall Conference
- since 2018 spokeswoman for the Dresden directors' group
- 2018-2020 member of the board of trustees for the cultural capital application Dresden 2025.
Web links
- Frauke Roth on dresdnerphilharmonie.de
- Frauke Roth in an interview on Klassikfavori
- Frauke Roth at the 2020/21 annual press conference of the Dresden Philharmonic on March 13, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dresden Philharmonic with a good record in the 150th year of Musik heute. Classic news journal. Retrieved July 17, 2020.
- ↑ Key figures of the Dresden Philharmonic from 2015 Dresden Philharmonic. Homepage. Accessed August 21, 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roth, Frauke |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cultural manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |