Jonas Alber

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Jonas Alber (* 1969 in Offenburg ) is a German conductor .

life and career

Alber studied violin and conducting at the University of Music Freiburg and then at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna . From 1995 he received a scholarship from the Herbert von Karajan Foundation. In 1998 Jonas Alber was appointed general music director and chief conductor at the Staatstheater Braunschweig , at that time the youngest conductor in Germany in this position, which he held until the end of the 2006/2007 season. The focus of his work in the opera is the classical-romantic repertoire from Mozart to Puccini and Richard Strauss . In addition, he directed the new production and resumption of the Ring des Nibelungen as well as premieres of works such as Die tote Stadt , Mona Lisa , Tiefland and The Makropulos Case . Alber conducted the German premieres of Philippe Boesman's operas Reigen , Wintermärchen and Julie , as well as Mozart's La clemenza di Tito with newly composed recitative texts by Manfred Trojahn in the Mozart year 2006 as well as the world premiere of Siegfried Matthus ' opera Cosima in April 2007.

Jonas Alber conducted Schreker's Der Schatzgräber and the revival of Peter Grimes as a guest conductor at the Frankfurt Opera . With a rehearsal of Iphigenie in Aulis began a collaboration with the chamber opera Schloss Rheinsberg, which he continued with Norma , Nabucco and Der Freischütz . He made his debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin with Carmina Burana and at the Vienna Volksoper with Franz Schmidt's Notre Dame . In March 2007, Jonas Alber conducted in Brussels , the world premiere of Benoit Merniers Opera Spring Awakening at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie; the recording of this performance on CD and DVD was awarded the Diapason d'Or in 2008. Further opera engagements led him to a world premiere of Mats Larsson Gothes opera Poet & Prophetess at the NorrlandsOperan (the second production of this opera took place in the Cape Town Opera also in 2008, Alber directed this production), to the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires ( Debut in September 2009 with Die Entführung aus dem Serail ) and to the Dresden State Opera (debut in spring 2010, revival of Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung ). New production of Fidelio , Staatstheater Braunschweig (premiere in May 2010), Teatro Real Madrid, Der Rosenkavalier , performances and covers (December 2010), South African State Theater, Pretoria (world premiere), Winnie The Opera, based on the life of Winnie Mandela (April / May 2011), Hamburg State Opera, Die Zauberflöte , 2011/2012 season.

As a guest conductor, Alber has conducted renowned orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Leipzig MDR Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Hamburg Symphony, the Orchester National de Belgique, the Lower Austrian Tonkünstlerorchester Wien, the St. Gallen. In 2006 Jonas Alber made his debut at the Residentie Orkest Den Haag in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and received re-invitations for the next season. He was also guest conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Flemish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Orchester National de Lille at the TACTUS Festival in Mons. He made his debut in China in 2009 with the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra and made his Japanese debut with the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra.

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personal data
SURNAME Alber, Jonas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenburg