Hans-Peter Kirchberg

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Hans-Peter Kirchberg (born March 6, 1956 in Leipzig ) is a German conductor and pianist .

Career

The son of a lawyer attended the Thomasschule Leipzig before he began his music studies in Dresden with Rudolf Neuhaus and Peter Gülke (Ernst von Siemens Music Prize 2014); He also took lessons from Eugen Jochum , Rudolf Kempe and Kurt Masur , as well as master classes with Igor Markevitch , Kurt Masur, Heinz Rögner and Wolf-Dieter Hauschild . He was assistant to Leonard Bernstein , Christoph Eschenbach , Mstislaw Rostropowitsch .

Due to his family background and political attitude, he was banned from traveling to international competitions, courses and festivals in the GDR for over ten years until 1988.

After the reunification, engagements developed at various German opera houses in Chemnitz , Zwickau , Bautzen, Halle, Schwerin and Wuppertal. He organized concerts (also as a song and instrumental accompanist) and went on tours with, among others, Helmuth Rilling and Mstislaw Rostropowitsch . He has worked as a freelancer with the Berlin Chamber Opera , theater 89 in Berlin, the New Berlin Chamber Orchestra (concerts and CD recording), the Neukölln Opera , the Brandenburg State Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Chamber Academy Schloss Rheinsberg (conducting the world premiere of the opera “Rheinsberger Masquerade” by Thomas Bürkholz at the opening of the Schlosstheater 2000).

Kirchberg has been teaching in the singing / music theater department of the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin since 1994 and is also a lecturer in the musical / show course at the Berlin University of the Arts . In 2018 he worked for the first time as a guest lecturer (part studies and song design) at the Saxon Singing Academy in Torgau.

Since 2002 he has been the musical director of the Neukölln Opera , whose musical profile he had previously shaped through numerous arrangements and world premieres. The following are to be highlighted from around 100 premieres:

  • 1996 Gisela exhibition hit
  • 1997 The Legend of the Krabat (Part 1 + 2)
  • 1998 The Boys of Syracuse
  • 1998 The miracle of Neukölln
  • 2001 Something doesn't fit Cinderella
  • 2002 Assassin assassin
  • 2003 parents' evening
  • 2004 The Elephant Man
  • 2004 Friendly Fire
  • 2005 Macbeth
  • 2006 Hero Müller
  • 2007 buy yourself a child
  • 2007 Weintraub's Jazz Odyssey
  • 2008 Turkish for lovers
  • 2009 life without Chris
  • 2009 Fanny and Screw
  • 2009 The Rigoletto Case - A Vatican Thriller
  • 2010 Tango Turk
  • 2010 Me and my avatar
  • 2012 Yasou Aida (based on Verdi "Aida")
  • 2012 Berlinerleben
  • 2013 Voices in the head
  • 2013 AiRossini (after Verdi "Il viaggio a Reims")
  • 2014 sisters in spirit
  • 2014 Bazaar Cassandra
  • 2015 The Carmen Files (based on Bizet "Carmen")
  • 2015 Grimm
  • 2016 Iris Butterfly (after Mascagni "Iris")
  • 2016 Stella - The blonde ghost from Kurfürstendamm (awards from the German Musical Academy in 6 categories, including "Best Musical")
  • 2017 Kopfkino (in cooperation with the Babelsberg Film School, also as a musical film)
  • 2018 Welcome to Hell - The musical for the riot summit in Hamburg
  • 2019 Drachenherz (based on the Nibelungen saga) - premier at the Chemnitz Opera House in cooperation with the Neuköllner Oper Berlin

Kirchberg launched the award-winning operas of almost all composition competitions ("Neuköllner Opernpreis", from 2005 called "Berliner Opernpreis"): Der Wurm , Alice (in Wonderland), Dog Heart (based on Bulgakow 's novel of the same name ), Münchhausen , Wischen - No Vision (on the subject of cleaning women) and Der Sonderermittler .

He is an expert in world premieres in music theater (including operas by Klaus Arp , Thomas Bürkholz , Dan Dediu , Winfried Radeke , Frank Schwemmer and Jan Müller-Wieland as well as musicals by Wolfgang Böhmer, Niclas Ramdohr and Thomas Zaufke ).

Kirchberg was also the conductor of the first opera about the politician Angela Merkel , the performance of which before the federal election in the summer of 2002 in the underground station under the Reichstag attracted international media interest ( "Angela - Eine Nationaloper" by Frank Schwemmer / music and Michael Frowin / libretto ) . At the beginning of 2005 he directed the European premiere of SHOMYO SYMPHONY II by the Japanese Maki Ishii in the House of World Cultures in Berlin. In the Schlosstheater Rheinsberg he was the conductor of the big gala for the 80th birthday of the composer Gerd Natschinski in August 2008. He is the winner of the “Silver Leaf” of the Dramatiker Union 2009.

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personal data
SURNAME Kirchberg, Hans-Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig