Karen Kamensek

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Karen Kamensek (2011)

Karen Kamensek (born January 2, 1970 in Chicago ) is an American conductor of Slovenian origin.

life and career

Karen Kamensek graduated from Indiana University . From 2000 to 2002 she was Kapellmeister at the Vienna Volksoper , from 2003 to 2006 general music director at the Freiburg City Theater and from 2007 to 2008 chief conductor at the Slovenian National Theater in Maribor . From 2008 she was deputy general music director at the Hamburg State Opera . From the 2011/12 season she was general music director at the Hanover State Opera . On March 20, 2014 it was announced that she would not extend her contract there beyond the 2015/2016 season. One of the reasons given was that she would like to turn to more international projects, which was previously not possible to the desired extent due to the temporal involvement in the Hanover State Opera. Karen Kamensek's tour plan currently takes her as a sought-after orchestral conductor through Europe, Asia and the USA.

She was guest conductor a. a. to the Frankfurt Opera , the Deutsche Oper Berlin , the Komische Oper Berlin , the Hamburg State Opera, the Opera Australia in Melbourne , the Royal Opera (Copenhagen) , the State Orchestra Hanover , the Philharmonic Hamburg and the Bruckner Orchestra Linz .

Karen Kamensek conducted a. a. the world premieres of the dance opera Les Enfants Terribles by Philip Glass ( Zug , 1996), which she also recorded on CD, and the opera The Raven King by Mervyn Burtch ( Banff , 1999). In autumn 2017 she directed the world premiere of Victoria Borisova-Ollas ' opera Dracula at the Royal Stockholm Opera .

In August 2017, Karen Kamensek conducted her debut concert at the Proms in London's Royal Albert Hall . There she directed the first complete live performance of Philip Glass' and Ravi Shankar's play Passages . The soloist was Shankar's daughter Anoushka Shankar . In November 2019 she made her debut with Akhnaten by Philip Glass at the Metropolitan Opera New York.

Awards

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  1. ↑ Helmut Peters: The woman by her side . In: The world . May 1, 2009 ( welt.de [accessed December 10, 2009]).
  2. ↑ Career jump: Karen Kamensek goes to Hanover . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . March 2, 2010 ( abendblatt.de [accessed on March 9, 2010]).
  3. ↑ Stefan Arndt: Kamensek leaves Hanover. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . March 19, 2014, accessed July 10, 2020 .
  4. ^ Anna Kisselgoff: A Fusion Inspired By Cocteau . In: New York Times . November 22, 1996 ( nytimes.com [accessed April 13, 2008]).
  5. ^ The Banff Center: Theater: History: Opera: The Raven King - 1999 Production ( Memento of February 23, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Dracula. Archived from the original on April 11, 2017 ; Retrieved July 18, 2017 (Swedish).
  7. ↑ Prom 41: Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar. Retrieved July 18, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Karen Kamensek's Met debut with Akhnaten ( Memento from May 22, 2019 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 10, 2020.

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personal data
SURNAME Kamensek, Karen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd January 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago