Georg Fritzsch

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Georg Fritzsch (* 1963 in Meißen ) is a German musician and conductor .

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Georg Fritzsch is the son of the cantor and organist Eberhard Fritzsch. He studied the cello at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden and from 1984 to 1988 gained experience in orchestral work with the Saxon State Orchestra in Dresden and from 1986 in the Thuringian Salon Quintet. After completing his studies, he was engaged as principal cellist with the Altenburg-Gera Philharmonic Orchestra and began studying conducting in Dresden and Leipzig at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theater with Heinz Rögner . In 1991 he was awarded the Conductors Forum of the German Music Council in Halle . In 1993 he received a scholarship from the Herbert von Karajan Foundation and completed his studies. In 1998 he was appointed general music director of the Philharmonie Südwestfalen and musical director of the Hagen theater .

From 2003 to 2019 he was General Music Director of the Kiel Theater . In addition, from 1999 to 2003 he held a professorship for conducting at the Tilburg University of Music (Netherlands), has been conducting conducting courses at the Conductors' Forum since 2003 and was chief conductor of the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck from 2009 to 2011 . In 2017 he took over a professorship for orchestral conducting at the University of Music and Theater in Munich . As of the 2020/2021 season, he will succeed Justin Brown as general music director of the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe and the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe .

In Germany he conducted the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, the Dresden Philharmonic , the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin , the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin , the Staatsorchester Stuttgart , the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker , the Staatskapelle Weimar , the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker , the Staatsphilharmonie Nuremberg , the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra , the Munich Symphony Orchestra , the Philharmonia Hungarica , the Northwest German Philharmonic and the Kiel Philharmonic Orchestra . He has made guest appearances at the Hanover State Opera , the Deutsche Oper am Rhein , the Semperoper Dresden and the State Opera Stuttgart .

Abroad he has guest conductors in China, France, Spain, Poland, Great Britain, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Austria, the Czech Republic, Belgium, Korea, Taiwan, Italy, Israel, the United States, South Africa, Estonia and in the Turkey.

The Georg Fritzsch repertoire includes concert and opera works of classical and contemporary music, and he is also active in the crossover area . In classical music he has conducted works by, among others, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Ludwig van Beethoven , Franz Schubert Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Anton Bruckner , Richard Wagner , Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss , in contemporary music by Siegfried Matthus , Bernd Franke , Volker David Kirchner , Rainer Kunad . He premiered the operas Lázaro and Schachnovelle by Cristóbal Halffter . In the crossover area he worked with Jon Lord , the NDR Bigband , the King's Singers , the Swingle Singers and Klazz Brothers & Cuba Percussion as well as rock musicians such as Karat , the Prinzen and Suzi Quatro .

His brother Johannes Fritzsch (* 1960) is also a conductor, his brother Rainer Fritzsch (* 1974) is a cantor in Radeberg .

In 2020 he was awarded the Andreas Gayk Medal by the City of Kiel for the establishment, supervision and expansion of the youth academies at the Kiel Opera House .

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  • Leadership in the orchestra - does that also apply to education? Lecture at the annual conference of the German Society for Education Administration, November 4th - 6th 2010 in Erfurt. In: Sibylle Krüger (Red.): Annual meetings of the German Society for Education Administration. Volume 31. Berlin 2011, pp. 97-102 ( online , PDF; 5.4 MB).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Isabel Steppeler: Georg Fritzsch becomes the new general music director in Karlsruhe. In: Baden's latest news . 17th May 2019
  2. ↑ The Thuringian Salon Quintet ( Memento of 7 May 2012 at the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ a b Christian Strehk: Georg Fritzsch is GMD in Karlsruhe. In: Kiel News . May 17, 2019, accessed August 21, 2020
  4. ↑ Georg Fritzsch takes over the conducting professorship in Munich on the website of the University of Music and Theater Munich
  5. ↑ Isabel Steppeler: Georg Fritzsch becomes the new general music director in Karlsruhe. In: Baden's latest news . May 17, 2019, accessed August 21, 2020
  6. ^ Jens Fritzsche: Sea bass and albatross. In: Saxon newspaper . 29th August 2015
  7. ^ Rainer Fritzsch on the website of the Hochstift Meißen
  8. ↑ Christian Strehk: Fritzsch with Gayk medal awarded. In: Kiel News . August 20, 2020, accessed August 21, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Fritzsch, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Meissen