Guido Mancusi

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Guido Mancusi (born June 14, 1966 in Portici near Naples ) is an Austrian - Italian conductor and composer .

Life

Guido Mancusi was born in Naples as the son of the Neapolitan conductor Enrico Mancusi and the Viennese singing teacher Ines Mancusi and grew up in Naples and Padova . He received his first piano lessons from his father, who was a close friend of the composer Nino Rota . After the early death of the father, the mother decided to return to her hometown Vienna with her two children .

Guido Mancusi became a soprano soloist with the Vienna Boys' Choir . After graduating from the Musikgymnasium in Vienna , he began studying bassoon and singing at the Vienna Conservatory . During his school days he became a member of the Catholic middle school student association K. Ö. St. V. Frankonia in Vienna, of which he still belongs to this day. This was followed by studies at the Vienna University of Music in the subjects of composition with Erich Urbanner and conducting with Karl Österreicher , he received diplomas with distinction. In 1992 he became a “magister artium” with a thesis on Paul Hindemith and founded the “Baroque Ensemble Vindobona”. The first engagements took the conductor to St. Pölten and Coburg , to the Raimund Theater and the Theater an der Wien . At the same time he assisted Ádám Fischer , Riccardo Muti at La Scala in Milan and at the Bayreuth Festival . Engagements at the opera houses in Graz and Kiel followed later . He is the recipient of the Mozart Medal 1991 for the best Mozart interpretation.

Guido Mancusi was artistic director of the Klosterneuburg Opera Festival and since 1998 he has been chief conductor of the “ Schloß Schönbrunn Orchestra Vienna ” with a focus on classical music.

He worked as a conductor at the Wiener Festwochen , the KlangBogen Wien , as well as in England, Argentina, Japan and the USA. He was also a guest conductor of the Budapest Concert Orchestra and the Slovak Philharmonic , which was followed by invitations to Burgos, Tel Aviv, Rome, Stockholm, Helsinki, Montevideo and Moscow as well as with the Philharmonic Orchestras in Copenhagen, Ljubljana and Toronto. He conducted premieres as a guest at the Vienna Chamber Opera , the Wiener Schauspielhaus as well as the Stadttheater Klagenfurt , the Vienna Volksoper , the Erfurt Opera and the New Israeli Opera Tel Aviv . From 2001 to 2007 he was chief conductor at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt. He was a juror at the "concorso internazionale di canto: Riccardo Zandonai ", at the world premiere of the oratorio "Die Mutter Erde" at the Wiener Musikverein and the "National Children's Music Competition" at ORF .

Mancusi is the musical director and conductor of the Vienna Volksoper. Here he conducted a. a. the operas The Magic Flute , Hansel and Gretel , Pinocchio and the operettas Countess Mariza , The Merry Widow , Die Csárdásfürstin , Die Fledermaus , The Beggar Student and My Sister and Me . In addition, Mancusi stood at the podium of the folk opera orchestra at the ballet evenings Carmen, Le Concours, Carmina Burana / Afternoon of a Faun / Boléro and Cendrillon.

In addition to his work as an opera conductor, he is a professor at the Music and Art Private University of the City of Vienna .

2016 he led the Vienna Music School , the Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi at the Vienna Musikverein.

Compositions (selection)

Choir and Orchestral works

  • Oratorio: The Mother Earth (1990/1991) in the Wiener Musikverein
  • Missa Brevis (1997)
  • St. John Passion (2011)

Chamber music

  • Happy Birthday, Quartet, for Prof. Ludwig Streicher on the occasion of his 70th birthday (1989) Alexander Mayer, in the Wiener Musikverein

Orchestral music

  • Concert for percussion and chamber orchestra (1986) Alexander Mayer, in the Wiener Musikverein

Stage works

  • One Night Stand Ballet (1995)
  • Things ballet (1996)
  • The dream man, operetta based on Oscar Wilde (2009/10)
  • The Transparent Pear Tree, Children's Opera (2010)
  • In God's Name, Opera (2012/13)
  • About my brother-in-law, later - ossia Kowalski (2016)

Choral music

  • Nine Martial Motets (1984-2005)

Film music

  • The Inferno of the Planets (1983)
  • Invasion of the Damned (1984)
  • I Cranici dell'Ibico (1986)
  • Borderline (1987)
  • Enterprise Columbia (1987)
  • Leonhard (1988)

Songs

  • The Child (1988)
  • Eight Love Songs (2006)

School music

  • 7 canons about multiplication tables (1992) Contemp Art, in the Wiener Musikverein

Edits

  • WAMozart: Don Giovanni (2014) Musikhaus Doblinger

literature

Awards

  • 1st prize at the International Music Festival - Tokyo
  • 1st prize at the International Composition Competition Franz Schubert - Vienna
  • 1st Prize Interpretation Prize at the Franz Schubert International Composition Competition
  • 2nd prize at the international choir competition in Marktoberdorf im Allgäu
  • Schikaneder Prize 2013 for the best interpretation of a ballet performance (Carmina Burana)

Recordings

  • The evening sky in F major, WAB 56, music, you heavenly structure! - CD: ORF CD 73, 1995
  • Schubert: Nachtgesang im Walde, CD, Decca Music Group Limited 2017
  • Complete Mozart edition, Arias, Lieder, Notturni, Decca Music Group Limited CD 2000
  • From Vienna with Love, Conchita Wurst, Wiener Symphoniker, Sony , 2018

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personal data
SURNAME Mancusi, Guido
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Italian conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Portici