Kasper de Roo

Kasper de Roo (born August 2, 1951 in The Hague ) is a Dutch conductor .

Life

Kasper de Roo studied conducting and bassoon at the Conservatories in The Hague and Amsterdam . He was first bassoonist in the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and made his debut in 1979 as a conductor at the Cabrillo Music Festival in Santa Cruz (California) . In 1984 he became Kapellmeister at the Stuttgart State Opera , from 1992 to 1997 he was music director of the city of Innsbruck , opera director at the Tiroler Landestheater and chief conductor of the Innsbruck Symphony Orchestra , from 1994 to 1998 he directed the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland . In 1999 he founded Windkraft Tirol , an ensemble for contemporary music that performed at the Klangspuren Festival in Schwaz, among others .

De Roo has conducted operas at opera houses in Amsterdam, Enschede, Brussels, Berlin, Bonn, Stuttgart and Innsbruck and symphonic works in numerous orchestral concerts. A special focus was on works by Igor Stravinsky and Dmitri Shostakovich . In addition, he conducted many world premieres of contemporary music, a. a. by Mauricio Kagel , Giselher Klebe and Emmanuel Nunes , especially with the Ensemble Modern . As a guest conductor he has worked with the Koninklijk Philharmonisch Orkest Antwerpen , the NDR Symphony Orchestra , the Warsaw National Philharmonic , the Columbus Symphony Orchestra , the Basel Symphony Orchestra and the Linz Bruckner Orchestra .

Awards

• Winner of the Concours international de jeunes chefs d'orchestre de Besançon , 1980
• Decoration of Honor for Art and Culture of the City of Innsbruck, 1997
• Nomination for the German Record Critics' Award for the CD recording of Elliott Sharp's Tessalation Row , 2004

literature

• Alexander Rausch: Roo, Kasper de. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .

Web links

• Kasper de Roo , personal website
• Kasper de Roo at Discogs (English)
• Kasper de Roo in the Tyrolean Music Atlas

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Laureats du Concours international de jeunes chefs d'orchestre 1951/2015 ( Memento of the original from September 7, 2017 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. (PDF; 85 kB) 
2. ↑ City of Innsbruck: Decoration of Honor for Art and Culture (PDF; 306 kB)