Jan Moritz Onken
Jan Moritz Onken (born August 20, 1977 in Wuppertal ) is a German conductor .
Onken's repertoire is characterized by an in-depth examination of operas and symphonies of the Viennese classical period and works by Russian composers such as Stravinsky , Shostakovich and Prokofiev . Another focus is the commitment to contemporary music, for example through performances by Harrison Birtwistle and Arvo Pärt or through intensive exchange with composers such as Pierre Boulez .
education
At the age of 19 Onken performed as a cellist together with Yo-Yo Ma , Ivan Monighetti and Boris Pergamenschtschikow in the St. Petersburg Philharmonic under the direction of Mstislav Rostropovich .
Onken was trained as a conductor in St. Petersburg and Vienna. At the St. Petersburg State Conservatory he studied orchestral conducting with Alexander Polishchuk and Nikolai Alexejew . At the Bayreuth Festival in 2003 he sat in with Ádám Fischer . 2004, the year of his thesis on the Gurrelieder of Arnold Schoenberg , also gave him Anatoly Briskin private lessons.
Act
After assisting Valery Gergiev and Mariss Jansons , he first founded an orchestra in Berlin with young musicians: Die Tonika. He then worked as chief conductor with symphony orchestras in Kazakhstan, Russia and South Africa. For this purpose, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) awarded a scholarship for the first time and sent Onken to the National Conservatory in Almaty from 2007 to 2009, to the State Pedagogical Heart University of St. Petersburg in St. Petersburg from 2010 to 2013 and to the Odeion School of Music (OSM ) Camerata in Bloemfontein .
As a guest, Onken has conducted both major European symphony orchestras as well as orchestras from the Asian and African continents - including the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hwaum Chamber Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the Georgian National Conservatory, the Symphony Orchestra of the Belcanto Festival Dordrecht and the Orchestra of the Germans Berlin Opera. Since 2010 he has been working with the Mariinsky Theater (St. Petersburg). In 2013 Onken directed the opera gala of the Mariinsky Theater with its soloists and the Abakan Philharmonic Orchestra as part of a UNESCO congress in Siberia. Also in 2013 Onken made his debut with the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra with the 5th Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven.
The collaboration with the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra and Maxime Zecchini resulted in the recording of piano works for the left hand in 2013, which Paul Wittgenstein commissioned from Benjamin Britten, Maurice Ravel and Sergei Prokofjew after the First World War.
In 2015 he was a guest conductor at the Tajik Academic Opera and Ballet House in Dushanbe, where he directed opera productions and symphony concerts. a. the new production of Tchaikovsky's Iolanta.
In September 2015 Onken received an invitation to the 5th Global Table of the BMW Foundation in Tanzania, where the idea of a Silk Road Cultural Belt was born. To support this idea of a digital silk road, he founded the Callias Foundation and the Silk Road Symphony Orchestra in 2016, which made its debut in June 2016 in the large broadcasting hall of the RBB in Berlin.
Awards
- Winner of the International Conducting Competition in Budapest 2010
Discography
- Œuvres pour la main gauche - Anthology Vol. 4. Homage to Paul Wittgenstein. Works by Sergej Prokofjew, Maurice Ravel, Benjamin Britten (published July 2014 by Ad Vitam / Harmonia Mundi )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Der Spiegel , Gustav Mahler im Problemkiez , April 29, 2006.
- ^ New York Times , Creating a Melody From Fear of Failure , June 4, 2008.
- ^ Berliner Morgenpost , joker from Kazakhstan in the Konzerthaus , August 11, 2008.
- ↑ FAZ , It is important to hear the tender diva song of the thumb , August 25, 2014.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from September 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Onken, Jan Moritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th August 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wuppertal |