Ivo Ingram Beikircher

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Ivo Beikircher (also Ivo Ingram , Ivo Ingram Beikircher ; born October 15, 1937 in Bruneck , South Tyrol ) is a South Tyrolean opera and concert singer with a bass voice and a publicist .

Live and act

Ivo Beikircher is the eldest son of Adolf Beikircher , head of the municipal power station in Bruneck, and Flora von Ingram zu Liebenrain, Fragburg and Graben. He received his first piano lessons at the city music school with Alois Kofler . From 1947 he attended the middle school of the Franziskanergymnasium Bozen as a pupil of the boarding school Antonianum . Here he sang in the choir of the Franciscan Church , also as a soprano soloist.

His father had planned him for the later management of the family business (turbine construction) of his great-grandfather Josef Beikircher , so he attended the scientific lyceum in Brixen after secondary school . Here, too, he continued his musical education and sang as a bassist in the Brixen cathedral choir and attended the diocesan church music school. Since he did not pass the Matura due to a lack of interest in the scientific subjects and did not want to repeat the school year, he completed an apprenticeship as a geometer at the Istituto Tecnico Cesare Battisti in Bolzano and graduated in 1959. Here, too, he was a member of the Bolzano parish choir and the chamber choir "Leonhard Lechner" under the direction of Oswald Jaeggi . He then returned to Bruneck, worked as a freelance civil geometer and married Barbara von Grebmer zu Wolfsthurn in 1961. The marriage has two children. In Bruneck, as a choir director, he initiated a revival of the men's choir "MGV Bruneck 1843", which was banned by the fascists in 1926. Although he was successful as a geometer, he decided to give up this job and devote himself entirely to his musical career.

Artistic work

From 1965 he studied singing at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Christl Mardayn and Anton Dermota, among others . At the same time he sang as a solo bassist in the Ensemble Musica Antiqua and in the Concentus Musicus as well as a member of the additional choir of the Vienna Radio Choir. After completing his studies in Vienna, he went to Mantua in 1969 to study with Ettore Campogalliani and won first prize in the international singing competition "Francesco Paolo Neglia".

In the same year he took over the role of Sarastro in Mozart's Magic Flute at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice as a replacement for Ruggero Raimondi , who had resigned from this engagement. At the suggestion of the opera management, Beikircher chose an artist name because of the incomprehensibility of his name for the Italian audience and performed under his mother's maiden name as Ivo Ingram . This was followed by numerous engagements in smaller vocal parts in concert opera productions of the RAI under conductors such as Wolfgang Sawallisch , Georges Prêtre , Ferdinand Leitner , and additionally the leading role in the world premiere of the opera Il paradiso e il poeta by Vieri Tosatti under the direction of the composer.

After a brief interlude at the Salzburg State Theater , he came to the Bonn Opera in the autumn of 1970 , where he made his debut as Father Guardian in Verdi's Die Macht des Schicksals and then took on the role of Timur in Turandot by Puccini . This was followed by a series of engagements for individual productions at Italian opera houses, e. B. at the Teatro Regio in Turin as Sparafucile in Verdi's Rigoletto and Colline in Puccini's La Bohème with Katia Ricciarelli as Mimi.

This was followed in 1973 by a permanent engagement at the Kiel Opera House under Klaus Tennstedt . There he worked on numerous roles in the German and Italian repertoire . In 1975 he moved to the Essen Opera House under Heinz Wallberg , with whom he worked until 1983. At the same time, he made guest appearances on numerous other German theaters (including Wiesbaden , Hanover and Düsseldorf ) and from 1976 to 1992, with interruptions, was a member of the ensemble of the Arena di Verona , Verona, as which he also participated in all of the ensemble's international guest performances.

He played a total of 56 roles on the opera stage. a. in works by Mozart (Osmin, Figaro, Leporello, Sarastro), Verdi (Ferrando, Sparafucile, Pater Guardian), Mussorgsky (Pimen in Boris Godunow ), Wagner (as a night watchman in the Meistersingern ) or Richard Strauss (Nazarenes in Salome , Orest in Elektra ).

Ingram Beikircher has also performed as a concert singer in important venues such as Concertgebouw Amsterdam , Berlin Philharmonic , Musikverein Wien , Liederhalle Stuttgart and Leningrader Philharmonie . His repertoire included the great masses and oratorios by u. a. Bach , Haydn , Mozart , Beethoven and Mendelssohn as well as Bach's Passions . Tours led him a. a. through Poland with the Berlin Philharmonic and France with the RIAS Symphony Orchestra .

Advised by Hubert Giesen , he also devoted himself to song singing, gave recitals in numerous cities and recorded for radio a. a. Schubert's Winterreise auf and the Merry Herbarium by Franz Salmhofer and ballads by Robert Schumann and Carl Loewe for the record .

After the death of his father in 1979 he returned to his homeland and restricted his work as a singer more and more in order to take care of the continuation and liquidation of the family business. In addition to taking on the leadership of the men's choir in Bruneck on a voluntary basis for nine years, he now began to work extensively on the German-language broadcasts of the RAI Bozen . Between 1980 and 1987 he designed a total of 268 programs on the subjects of “German Song”, “Oratorios, Masses and Cantatas” and “Opera”. This was followed by orders from the TV department of RAI Bolzano for scripts and documentary directing for contributions to the history and culture of South Tyrol. Between 1982 and 1997 he made 20 documentaries a. a. about the poet Anton Müller , Meinhard II. von Tirol-Görz, Canon Michael Gamper and about the South Tyrolean option 1939 .

From 1982 to 1991 Ingram Beikircher was the artistic director of the Festival of Sacred Music, supported by Bolzano and Trento , with a total of 280 concerts, where, in addition to a broad repertoire of organ and choir concerts, works by local composers were premiered. B. the oratorios La Santa Croce by Camillo Moser (1932–1985) and Passion by Hubert Stuppner . From 1991 to 2000 he took over the lied and oratorio class at the Bolzano Conservatory .

Journalistic activity

After completing his ordinary professional activities, he devoted himself to the archiving of business and family documents of his ancestors and for this purpose published two extensive biographical volumes about his great-grandfather Josef Beikircher as well as the experiences of the family during the First World War with letters and many of his grandfather Gustav Beikircher made Photographs. Another publication arose from his lifelong association with the “Men's Choir Bruneck 1843”, from which numerous compositions by Ingram Beikircher had emerged. His monograph on various Tyrolean poets associated with Bruneck and its singers and the Bruneck sculptor Josef Bachlechner was published in 2015.

Discography

As a bass soloist

  • Johann Sebastian Bach : Johannespassion (Jesus), Philharmonic Orchestra Kiel under Wilfried Vogt (Lorby 1974)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Missa brevis in D major KV 194 and Franz Schubert: Mass No. 2 in G major, Chamber Orchestra of the Philharmonia Hungarica under Konrad Haenisch (Aulos 1977)
  • César Franck : The seven words of Christ on the cross, Philharmonie Schwäbisch Gmünd under Hubert Beck (Audite 1979)
  • César Franck: Mass in A major op.12, Philharmonie Schwäbisch Gmünd under Hubert Beck (Audite 1979)
  • Carl Loewe and Robert Schumann : Ballads, at the piano Othmar Trenner (Audite 1979)

As a choir conductor

  • Pieces for male choir by Schubert, Kreutzer, Gluck, Mendelssohn, Abt, Schumann, performed by the Bruneck men's choir in 1843, with Barton Weber (piano) and the Munich Philharmonic Horn Quartet (Aria Studio 1985)

Compositions (selection)

  • Op. 1: 8 songs for four-part male choir a capella (No. 7 and No. 8 with piano) based on poems by Paul Tschurtschenthaler
    • No. 1: evening song
    • No. 2: The Wanderer
    • # 3: harvest words
    • No. 4: Greet them
    • No. 5: Night song
    • No. 6: Singing life
    • No. 7: Bergsehnsucht, (with piano ad libitum )
    • No. 8: The last center (with piano)
  • Op. 2: 4 songs for four-part male choir a capella based on poems by Hermann von Gilm, Anton Müller “Brother Willram” and Josef Georg Oberkofler
    • No. 1: Hermann von Gilm's Night from "Mixed Poems"
    • No. 2: Edelweiss by Anton Müller "Bruder Willram" from "Wanderweise und Heimatlieder"
    • No. 3: The clarification of Josef Georg Oberkofler from "Triumph der Heimat"
    • No. 4: Look into the moonlit night by Josef Georg Oberkofler from "Triumph der Heimat"
  • Op. 3: "Let's go to Bethlehem" - Brunico pastoral mass based on texts by Anton Müller "Brother Willram" and others (Doblinger Wien, 2017 ISMN 979-0-012-20582-1)
    • No. 1: Kyrie, Departure of the Shepherds
    • No. 2: Gloria, hymn of the shepherds
    • No. 3: Credo, Father and Bua
    • No. 4: Offertory, Marienlied
    • No. 5: Sanctus, Angels and Shepherds
    • No. 6: Benedictus, Lullaby of the Shepherds
    • No. 7: Agnus Dei, contemplation
    • No. 8: Deo gratias, closing song of the shepherds

Documentaries

Artist biographies

history

  • Tyrol Castle - the country's baptismal font
  • Meinhard II. - the becoming of Tyrol
  • The pledge - 1796
  • On the oath - 1796–1896 - 1946
  • Sterzing - a historical city portrait
  • Brixen - on the trail of an imperial principality
  • Europe's trading cities: Bolzano

Contemporary history

  • Michael Gamper Part 1 and 2
  • "... the most beautiful piece of it is my home" (Zur Option 1939)
  • The SS man with the rosary - Leonhard Dallasega from Proveis (1913–1945)

Publications

  • Josef Beikircher (1850–1925) - A man from the founding years in Tyrol. Studienverlag Innsbruck, Vienna / Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7065-4602-7 .
  • Tyrolean car pioneers in World War I - Galicia, Old Tyrol and the Near East in photographs and letters from the kuk fireworker Gustav Beikircher. Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-85218-740-2 .
  • MGV Bruneck 1843 (Hrsg.): Bruneck - Heimat Tyrolean Poetry (by Gilm - Seeber - Brother Willram - Tschurtschenthaler) and foster home of the song for male choir (with an excursion to the sculptor Josef Bachlechner). Bruneck 2012, ISBN 978-88-900228-7-6 .
  • Numerous articles in magazines (especially in Der Schlern ) and anthologies such as home books (community Ahrntal) and home guides (Tauferer-Ahrntal).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the three years spent in Bolzano, cf. Ivo Ingram Beikircher, “As boarding school pupil and choirboy at the Franziskanergymnasium in Bozen 1947–1950” in Der Schlern 2019, issue 4, pp. 68–80; 5, 61-71; 6, 42-57; 7/8, 114-127.
personal data
SURNAME Beikircher, Ivo Ingram
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ingram, Ivo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Tyrolean singer, composer, writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Brunico