Kristiina Poska

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Kristiina Poska in an interview with the moderator Sabine Heinrich at the Eurovision Young Musicians 2014

Kristiina Poska (born July 12, 1978 in Türi , Estonia ) is an Estonian conductor .

Life

Kristiina Poska started playing the piano at the age of eight. She has been a conductor since 1994. In 1998 she founded the Estonian choir Nimeta ("nameless").

Kristiina Poska completed her studies in choral conducting at the Estonian Music Academy ( Eesti Muusikaakadeemia ) in Tallinn in 2002 . In Berlin , she expanded her training with Kai-Uwe Jirka at the University of the Arts (UdK) and with Jörg-Peter Weigle at the Hanns Eisler Music Academy . There she studied orchestral conducting with Christian Ehwald from 2004 to 2009 .

From 2006 to 2011 Poska was the conductor of the symphony orchestra "Cappella academica" at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 2008 to 2013 she was a scholarship holder of the Conductor Forum at the German Music Council . In this context, she attended courses with Peter Gülke , Reinhard Goebel and Eri Klas .

From August 2012 to July 2016 Poska was First Kapellmeister at the Komische Oper in Berlin.

In 2019 Kristiina Poska became music director at Theater Basel , limited to the 2019/20 season. Also in 2019 she took up her post as chief conductor of the Flanders Symphony Orchestra in Ghent .

Guest Conductor

Kristiina Poska is an internationally sought-after concert and opera conductor and has worked successfully with the Estonian State Symphony Orchestra , the radio symphony orchestras in Cologne , Leipzig , Saarbrücken / Kaiserslautern , Frankfurt am Main and Vienna , at the Vienna Konzerthaus with the Camerata Salzburg , the Tonkünstler Orchestra Lower Austria , the Munich Philharmonic , the Bremen Chamber Philharmonic , the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra , the Orchester Philharmonique de Strasbourg , the Gothenburg Symphony , the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra .

Opera engagements led her a. a. to the Volksoper Vienna , the Hamburg State Opera , the Finnish National Opera Helsinki, the Royal Stockholm Opera , the Zurich Opera House and the Basel Theater.

Awards

In October 2006 Poska received the Orchestra's Preference Award from the "Dimitris Mitropoulos International Competition for Conducting" in Athens . In May 2007 she received the first prize of the 5th competition for women conductors of the Orchestra Academy of the Bergische Symphoniker Remscheid - Solingen .

At the renowned Nikolai Malko Competition 2012 in Copenhagen with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra , Kristiina Poska u. a. the audience award.

In April 2013 she won the German Conductor Prize, which is awarded every two years by the German Music Council in cooperation with the Konzerthaus Berlin and is endowed with 15,000 euros .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography on: Theater and Orchestra Neubrandenburg / Neustrelitz
  2. ↑ Alumni at: Conductors' forum
  3. ↑ Short CV ( memento of November 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on: hfm-berlin
  4. ^ Komische Oper Berlin: Kristiina Poska on Klassik.com , May 25, 2011
  5. ↑ Biography on: State Opera Stuttgart
  6. ↑ New music director at Theater Basel. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . October 12, 2018 .;
  7. ^ Kristiina Poska becomes the new Chief Conductor of Flanders Symphony Orchestra. In: Pizzicato . 20th March 2019 .;
  8. ↑ Gramophone report on the Malko competition 2012
  9. ↑ German Conductor Award 2013 goes to Kristiina Poska. (PDF) In: German Music Council . April 26, 2013 .;
  10. ↑ German Conductor Prize: First Prize for a young female conductor from Estonia ( Memento from June 30, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Poska, Kristiina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian conductor
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Türi , Estonia