Jennifer Condon

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Jennifer Condon (* 1983 in Wollongong ) is an Australian conductor and prompter .

Life

Condon received her elementary music lessons first in Wollongong and the Kambala School in Sydney with support from Opera Australia , where she made her first contact with the conductor Simone Young . She then studied piano at the Sydney Conservatory and conducting with Vladimir Vais in Melbourne .

She worked as a répétiteur for Melbourne City Opera and conducted Hoffmann's short stories at the Sydney University Arts Festival . In 2005, she moved to Europe, where she deepened her conducting studies, initially in Vienna, took part in master classes , and at the same time began working as a prompter at the State Opera in Hamburg .

As a conductor, she is particularly specialized in German and contemporary repertoire, with the performance of Aribert Reimann 's Lear being one of her most important works.

As an assistant conductor, she worked under conductors such as Simon Rattle , Simone Young , Jaap van Zweden , Franz Welser-Möst , Andrew Davis and Kirill Petrenko .

In 2015 she was selected as one of 6 conductors for the scholarship program of The Linda and Mitch Hart Institute for Women Conductors of the Dallas Opera , and has since been engaged as a conductor or assistant conductor several times.

She works freelance, mainly as an assistant conductor, including engagements at the Bavarian State Opera , Salzburg Festival , Baden-Baden Festival , Vienna State Opera , Semperoper Dresden, Berlin State Opera , Bayreuth Festival , Hamburg State Opera , Deutsche Oper Berlin , De Nationale Opera Amsterdam, Lyric Opera of Chicago , Zurich Opera , Hungarian State Opera , Dallas Opera and New National Theater Tokyo . She also conducted performances of The Flying Dutchman at the Malmö Music Theater and at the Cultural de Mayo Festival in Guadalajara , Mexico.

Sappho by Peggy Glanville-Hicks

In 2009, Condon received approval from the estate administrator of Australian composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks to record her unpublished and never fully performed or recorded opera Sappho from 1964. After a time-consuming transfer of the manuscript and a long search for contributors, Condon was able to record the opera under her own direction in 2012 with, among others, Deborah Polaski , Martin Homrich , Scott MacAllister , Roman Trekel , Wolfgang Koch and John Tomlinson .

Discography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Jennifer Condon ( Memento from March 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) at Owl's Nest Opera
  2. ↑ Jennifer Condon ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2016 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. at the Institute for Women's Conductors, Dallas Opera @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dallasopera.org
  3. ↑ The Linda and Mitch Hart Institute for Women Conductors: Conductors 2015 , accessed August 3, 2020.
  4. ↑ Jennifer Condon: Conductor , accessed August 3, 2020.
  5. ↑ Jennifer Condon's lifelong dream is called "Sappho" , in: Hamburger Abendblatt from December 20, 2012
  6. ↑ Sappho.com
personal data
SURNAME Condon, Jennifer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian conductor and prompter
DATE OF BIRTH 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Wollongong