Henrik Schaefer
Henrik Schaefer (born April 27, 1968 in Bochum ) is a German conductor and violist .
Life
He started playing the violin at the age of six , before switching to the viola at the age of fourteen and soon became a young student of Konrad Grahe at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen.
After graduating from high school and after completing the Bundeswehr, in 1988 he became Ulrich Koch's last student at the Freiburg University of Music . This was followed by lessons with Kim Kashkashian and Johannes Lüthy and in 1991, after only five semesters, she was accepted as the youngest member of the Berliner Philharmoniker . In 1989 he was a finalist at the international music competition in Markneukirchen and won the prize of the German Brahms Society.
As a member of the Berlin Philharmonic, he was also very active in chamber music, played string quartet and string trio and made music in the Modern Art Sextett Berlin, with whom he performed up to 30 world premieres per year. In addition to his orchestral service, he took up a postgraduate course in conducting with Volker Rohde at the Leipzig Music Academy in 1995 . He took over the direction of the Schöneberg Symphony Orchestra , a very ambitious amateur orchestra in Berlin, and became a lecturer at the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra.
In May 2000 he was elected assistant to Claudio Abbado with the Berliner Philharmoniker. In the summer of the same year Abbado suddenly fell ill, which is why Henrik Schaefer took over the direction of the Berliner Philharmoniker very often. For example, he conducted all rehearsals of the Wagner opera production by Tristan and Isolde in Tokyo in December 2000, but also many rehearsals by Parsifal and Falstaff at the Salzburg Easter Festival as well as concert rehearsals in Berlin and on tours, such as the dress rehearsal before Claudio Abbado's last Concert as chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic with the Seventh Symphony by Gustav Mahler in Vienna.
Henrik Schaefer immediately became enthusiastic about working with young musicians and he worked with the Brandenburg State Youth Symphony Orchestra, the University Orchestra of the Manhattan School of Music, the Gustav Mahler Orchestra ( Parsifal ) and the orchestra of the Bayreuth International Orchestra Academy and the Federal Youth Orchestra which he conducted a concert with viola concerts in the Alte Oper in Frankfurt together with the Moscow soloists , the climax of which was the viola concerto by Alfred Schnittke with Juri Baschmet as the soloist.
In June 2003, after twelve years, he left the Berlin Philharmonic to devote himself entirely to conducting. His conducting career began to develop rapidly, especially in Japan, where he now regularly works with five orchestras (Hiroshima, Osaka Philharmic Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony, Tokyo Metropolitan, Sapporo) and in Holland (Asko Ensemble, Holland Symfonia, Radio Symphony) but also otherwise in Europe (Norrköping, Uppsala, BBC Scottish, Israel Sinfonietta, Prager Symphoniker) and in Germany. Here he worked with the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt, the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, the Mainz State Orchestra and was in charge of two new productions with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra at the Leipzig Opera ( Le sacre du printemps by Igor Stravinsky and Le nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ).
From 2004 to 2011 he was principal guest conductor of the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra , from 2007 to 2013 chief conductor of the Wermland Opera Karlstad . Since 2013 he has been music director at the Gothenburg Opera .
literature
- Berliner Philharmoniker: Variations with Orchestra - 125 Years of the Berliner Philharmoniker , Volume 2, Biographies and Concerts, Verlag Henschel, May 2007, ISBN 978-3-89487-568-8
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Henrik Schaefer (Conductor). In: Ballet and Opera. 2019 (English).
- ^ Henrik Schaefer. In: opera.se. 2020 (English).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Schaefer, Henrik |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 27, 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bochum |