Gintaras Rinkevičius

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Rinkevičius with his orchestra

Gintaras Rinkevičius (* 1960 in Vievis ) is a Lithuanian musician, founder, chief conductor and artistic director of the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra and professor in Vilnius .

Life

Rinkevičius attended the Čiurlionis Art School in Vilnius and studied at the Saint Petersburg (until 1983) and Moscow Conservatoires (1986). In 1983 he won the Fifth Conducting Competition in Moscow. He became known as the winner of the Herbert von Karajan Competition in Berlin in 1985. Just three years later, he became chief conductor and artistic director of the Lithuanian State Philharmonic . He also worked as artistic director and chief conductor from 1996 to 2003 and as chief guest conductor at the Latvian National Opera from 2007 to 2009 . He also held leading positions in the opera houses of Malmö (2002–05) and Riga and is chief conductor of the Novosibirsk Academic Symphony Orchestra .

As a guest conductor, Rinkevičius has directed the Berlin Symphony Orchestra , the Staatskapelle Weimar , the St. Petersburg Philharmonic , the Russian National Orchestra, the Russian State Orchestra and the Odense Symphony. Musicians such as Violeta Urmanavičiūtė-Urmana , Matti Salminen , Badri Maisuradse , Katia Ricciarelli , Victor Tretyakov , Yuri Bashmet , Peter Donohoe , Oleg Kagan , Gidon Kremer , David Geringas and Roger Muraro performed under his direction .

Rinkevičius made his debut as an opera conductor at the Hungarian National Opera in 1986 with Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail . Ballet performances such as Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and The Nutcracker , Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet and Igor Stravinsky's Le sacre du printemps followed . In 1988 he directed the performance of Audronė Žigaitytė-Nekrošienė's opera Mažvydas in Klaipėda , and in 2003 a concert performance of Peter Heise's opera Drot og marsk at Tivoli in Copenhagen. As a guest conductor at the Bolshoi Theater , he performed, among other things, Puccini's La Bohème . At the Latvian National Opera he had Giuseppe Verdi's Nabucco , Aida and La traviata , Richard Strauss ' Salome , Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin and Mozart's Die Zauberflöte in the repertoire.

As an orchestral conductor, Rinkevičius performed all of the symphonies by Ludwig van Beethoven , Johannes Brahms , Gustav Mahler and Dmitri Shostakovich . He headed the Lithuanian premieres of Mahler's Symphony No. 8 , César Franck's oratorio Les Beatitudes and Philip Glass ' Itaipu and the world premieres of Algirdas Martinaitis ' oratorio Laiškas visiems tikintiesiems , Feliksas Bajoras ' Dievo avinėlis (Agnus Dei) and Julius Juzeliūnas ' Žaidimas .

He teaches as a professor at the Chair of Conducting at the LMTA Music Faculty in Vilnius.

He is married to Donata Rinkevičienė for the second time.

Awards

In 1994 he received the Lithuanian National Prize, in 2009 President Valdas Adamkus awarded him the Grand Commander of the Order for Services to Lithuania .

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personal data
SURNAME Rinkevičius, Gintaras
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Vilnius