Karsten Januschke

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Karsten Januschke (born March 4, 1980 in Bad Segeberg ) is a German conductor .

Career

Januschke studied piano and musicology in Vienna before taking up conducting studies with Georg Mark at the Vienna Conservatory, which he graduated with honors. During his studies, he worked as a solo coach at the Vienna State Opera from 2004, where he conducted children's operas, for example in a version of the Ring of the Nibelung based on Richard Wagner . At the same time he worked regularly at the Theater an der Wien and at the Bayreuth Festival , where he assisted Christian Thielemann and Kirill Petrenko . Assistance at various opera and festival theaters brought him together with conductors such as Seiji Ozawa , Constantinos Carydis and Sebastian Weigle .

In 2008 he worked as musical director for the filming of La Bohème with Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón . In 2010 Karsten Januschke made his debut at the podium of the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra with Georg Philipp Telemann's Pimpinone or Die Unequal Heirat and Lior Navok's The Little Mermaid and has since conducted performances of Die Zauberflöte , Così fan tutte , L'étoile , Mavra , performances of the Frankfurt premiere production of Aulis Sallinens Kullervo as well as in the concert The Nutcracker .

In the 2012/13 season he conducted performances of La traviata , Die Fledermaus , Idomeneo and Don Carlos at the Frankfurt Opera House .

In the 2013/14 season he was the musical director of the new production The Ghost Sonata by Aribert Reimann and conducted performances of the premiere series of Don Giovanni , repertoire performances of the Magic Flute and Così fan tutte and Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet .

In 2013/14 he made his debut with the Deutsche Radiophilharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern and with the Bochumer Symphoniker . In 2014 he was appointed Kapellmeister of the Frankfurt Opera. In July 2014 he made his debut as the musical director of the production Die Zirkusprinzessin at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz .

In the 2014/15 season he was First Assistant Conductor at Los Angeles Opera for the production of Dido and Aeneas / Duke Bluebeard's Castle . In December he made his debut with the Magic Flute at the Klagenfurt City Theater . In his last season as Kapellmeister at the Frankfurt Opera he conducted La Bohème , Hansel and Gretel , Murder in the Cathedral and Don Giovanni in a production by Christof Loy . In June 2015 he took over the musical direction of The Snow Queen (Sergej Banewitsch) and made his debut with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. The German-language premiere based on the fairy tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen was under the patronage of Anna Netrebko and was performed in the Haydn Hall of Esterházy Palace in Eisenstadt (Austria).

In the 2015/16 season he conducted the revival of Le nozze di Figaro and a new production of Valentino Fioravanti's Le cantatrici villane at the Frankfurt Opera . He took over the musical direction of the new production of Carmen (director: Christof Nel ) at the Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding and made his debut with the Munich Radio Orchestra , the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn .

In 2016/17 he conducted the new production Der Liebestrank (director: Philipp Himmelmann ) at the opera in the St. Margarethen quarry . He then made a guest appearance at the St. Gallen Theater for the first time with the new production Le nozze di Figaro . In the field of symphony concerts, debuts and a. with the MDR Symphony Orchestra Leipzig , the Bremen Philharmonic, the Southwest German Philharmonic Konstanz and the South Westphalia Philharmonic.

In 2017/18 he conducted Dido and Aeneas / Herzog Blaubarts Burg (director: Barrie Kosky ) and the world premiere of Arnulf Herrmann's Der Mieter at the Frankfurt Opera House. He then made a guest appearance with the new production of Don Pasquale at the Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra. He made his debut at the Bavarian State Opera with the new production The Dictator / The Broken Jug . Debuts followed with the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin , the North German Philharmonic Rostock , the Munich Chamber Orchestra , at the Vienna Volksoper and at the Darmstadt State Theater .

In 2018/19 there were further new opera productions and debuts: Don Giovanni at the New National Theater Tokyo , Olga Neuwirth's Lost Highway at the Oper Frankfurt, Fidelio at the Landestheater Vorarlberg , The Magic Flute at the Opera in the St. Margarethen quarry and concerts with the MDR- Symphony orchestra, the Mecklenburg State Orchestra Schwerin , the orchestra of the Budapest Philharmonic and the Ensemble Modern .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ heard played: The Ö1 music evening. The art of improvisation . In: oe1.orf.at , February 29, 2016, accessed on September 9, 2016.
  2. ^ Opera in the quarry 2016: The love potion . In: tv.orf.at , accessed on September 9, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Januschke, Karsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor
DATE OF BIRTH March 4th 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Segeberg