Janko Kastelic
Janko Kastelic (born January 10, 1969 in Ljubljana ) is a Canadian conductor and currently General Music Director of the Opera House in Maribor , Slovenia .
Live and act
He grew up in Toronto , where he began his musical education in the renowned St. Michael's Choir School (comparable to the Vienna Boys' Choir ), with which he traveled around the world as a soprano and accompanist, creating a musical repertoire from Gregorian chant to for the music of the 20th century. In the Western Ontario Conservatory of Music (1979–1987) he won the gold medal for his performances on piano and organ. After graduating, he studied conducting, composition, music theory and piano at the Edward Johnson Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto .
After completing his studies, he returned to Europe, first as a guest auditor at the Vienna University of Music and finally in 1992 as a répétiteur and assistant to the director of studies at the Slovenian State Opera in Ljubljana. He also directed a baroque orchestra and a wind orchestra . After the third season he was hired as a musical assistant at the Paris Opera and worked with well-known singers and conductors.
Vienna State Opera
“Because he wanted to learn new things,” Janko Kastelic finally applied to the Vienna State Opera and in 2002 was hired as the second choir director and conductor. In March 2007 he led the demanding choirs in Moses und Aron by Arnold Schönberg and conducted performances of Das Traumfresserchen ( Wilfried Hiller ), Aladdin and the Magic Lamp ( Nino Rota ) or Bastien and Bastienne ( Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ).
TU orchestra
In addition to his broad operatic repertoire, Janko Kastelic also has experience in the choral and orchestral repertoire. He has prepared productions for the Klangbogen Festival in Vienna and the Salzburg Festival . From 2004 to 2005 he directed the orchestra of the Technical University of Vienna , with which he organized several orchestral concerts focusing on the French and classical repertoire.
Although he has worked as a conductor mainly in Europe (Austria, Italy, Spain, Slovenia), he has also conducted in North America ( Calgary , Edmonton , Kitchener , Toronto ). In the summer of 2008 he conducted performances of Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss at the Musik Theater Schönbrunn in Vienna.
composition
Although his career as a conductor is paramount and he has taken on various organizational and artistic tasks with the musical direction of the Maribor Opera House, he continues to work as a composer and pianist . In addition to his work as an accompanist and répétiteur, he is also known for his improvisations on the organ and harpsichord . “As a musician, you should above all be diverse and open to new things,” he says and has composed music for film, pop festivals or the Pope's visit, for example.
children
“For me, the young people are future lovers of our art, and I take them very seriously,” says Janko Kastelic in an interview with the Vienna State Opera magazine pro: log . As the conductor of the children's operas in the Vienna State Opera, he was able to devote himself to this task. In September 2005 he became a teacher and finally musical director of the opera school for children at the Vienna State Opera, where in the Mozart year 2006, together with the author Claudia Toman, he arranged a twenty-minute miniature opera ( Der kleine Friedrich ) from Mozart songs, which in the course of a matinee on on the big stage.
Slovenian National Theater Maribor
Since September 2008 Janko Kastelic has been general music director of the opera, symphony orchestra and ballet of the Maribor Opera House. In May 2009 he conducted Carl Orff's Carmina Burana in Ljubljana and Maribor and in September 2009 his first premiere at the Opera House, Pique Dame by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky . “With Kastelic (...) Maribor has won a multiple award-winning musician who has ambitious plans for the opera. Kastelic elicited a colorful sound from the orchestra that created intimate moments and dramatic scenes and did justice to the stylistic facets of the opera, ”writes Das Opernglas magazine .
Web links
- Works by and about Janko Kastelic in the catalog of the German National Library
- Slovenian National Theater Maribor
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Biography of SNG Maribor ( Memento of the original from September 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Department of Musicology Ljubljana ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b pro: log , the journal of the Vienna State Opera, March 2007, issue 107, p. 18
- ^ History of the TU orchestra
- ↑ Cast ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Music Theater Schönbrunn
- ↑ Opera School of the Vienna State Opera ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The little Friedrich members.aon.at
- ↑ Queen of Spades ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. SNG Maribor
- ^ Das Opernglas , Edition 12/2009, p. 58, B. Frakele
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kastelic, Janko |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 10, 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ljubljana |