Leon de Castillo

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Christian Kostal León de Castillo (sings under his Mexican family name: León de Castillo ; born September 7, 1985 in Mérida , Mexico ) is an Austro-Mexican tenor , conceptual artist , music researcher and artistic director .

Life

León de Castillo made his debut at the age of 5 in Mexico and at the age of 8 in Vienna as a soloist in the Mozart Boys' Choir in the Vienna Volksoper , in the Vienna State Opera as well as at concerts in the Vienna Musikverein and the Vienna Konzerthaus .

In 2007 he began his studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Karlheinz Hanser and Gabriele Lechner and made his debut in 2008 with Plácido Domingos and Patricia Petibons in the Zarzuela Luisa Fernanda at the Theater an der Wien , where he performed as Thug in Il Postino in 2010 sang. At the Theater an der Wien he was also seen as a sergeant in Hans Werner Henze's Prinz von Homburg with Christian Gerhaher and in 2011 as Mars in an adapted version of Georg Friedrich Handel's Rynaldo at the Life Ball and as Melibeo in Joseph Haydn's La fedelta premiata .

In 2012 he made his debut at the Wiener Musikverein alongside Ildikó Raimondi and at the Palacio de Bellas Artes (State Opera Mexico) alongside Encarnación Vazquez; Alfred sang in Die Fledermaus at the Teatro Peón Contreras, recitals with the Austrian Cultural Forum, aria concerts with symphonic orchestras etc.

In 2013 he sang again at the Palacio de Bellas Artes and made his debut at the Wiener Konzerthaus in a solo concert. In March 2013 he founded a concert series that focused on the Mexican protest against the Anschluss of Austria and the Primavera Festival Vienna . De Castillo sang concerts in Detroit, Paris and Marseille, among others.

Chamber music and song

Together with his chamber orchestra Valsassina Ensemble , he gave concerts in 2014 as part of the Primavera Festival Vienna in the Wiener Musikverein, in the UNO-City , at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, in the French Embassy in Vienna and then in Mexico and the USA. On this tour, they made their debut together in the Sala Nezahualcóyotl and in Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City and in Carnegie Hall in New York. This young chamber orchestra made it to the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Wiener Musikverein, the Palacio de Bellas Artes and the Carnegie Hall within the first 14 months of their concert activity.

Together with Lukas Medlam he also founded the Marcel Rubin Quartet, with whom he worked in Paris at the Maison Heinrich Heine , in New York at the Carnegie Hall, in Mexico City at the Museo Nacional de San Carlos, in Basel at the Kunsthalle Basel and in Vienna in the Schlosstheater Schönbrunn .

León de Castillo also sings Deutsches Lied , Mélodies, Canciones in 8 languages ​​- his repertoire includes various song cycles such as Franz Schubert's Schwanengesang , Schumann's Dichterliebe , Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Songs of the Clown, Gustav Mahler's Songs of a Traveling Journeyman , Hanns Eisler's Ernste Gesänge etc. sang recitals in Austria, Mexico, USA, England, France, Spain, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, Switzerland, Norway, Poland, Germany etc.

Cooperations

He worked with conductors such as Jesús López Cobos , Marc Albrecht , Josep Caballé Domenech , Christoph Ulrich Meier , orchestras such as B. Vienna Symphony Orchestra , Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra , directors such as Patrice Chéreau , Christof Loy , Emilio Sagi , Ron Daniels, Horacio Almada, Paul Esterházy , pianists such. B. Stephan Matthias Lademann , Christian Koch, Marcin Kocziel etc.

Exile music, research

Together with the musicologist , professor and director of the Science Center MAED (Music Analysis and Exile Documentation Research Center) Gerold Gruber researched de Castillo on Austrian and German artists during the Second World War, with the aid of the known as the "Mexican Schindler" Consul General Gilberto Bosques about France were able to flee to Mexico. Among the best-known personalities who received a migration pass from his hands were the old Austrian Egon Erwin Kisch (the “mad reporter”) from Prague , the German writer Anna Seghers and the Austrian composer Marcel Rubin .

Primavera Festival Vienna

In 2013 de Castillo sang in a UN Women project on International Women's Day in the UN City of Vienna, on March 19 (the day of the Mexican protest against the Anschluss of Austria ) at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna and on March 21 ( International Day against Racism ) again in the UN City in Vienna. These three days therefore became the most important days of the festival. In 2014, on these World Days, concerts took place in the UN City of Vienna, the Diplomatic Academy Vienna, the Wiener Musikverein, the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the French Embassy in Vienna. The festival advocates openness and tolerance and against racism and discrimination . As director of the festival , de Castillo therefore decided to focus the repertoire on compositions by discriminated composers, such as composers in exile, as well as works by various female composers.

Concept art

In September 2014, de Castillo made his debut as a concept artist in a project with David Lamelas at the Kunsthalle Basel . This project was created in cooperation with the Mexican-American composer, pianist and visual artist Gavin Gamboa and referred to the architecture of the Kunsthalle and dealt with the space fundamentally. The title of the piece of music 1416 m3 refers to the existing volume of space that was filled with sound by this composition.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.atriumyoungartists.eu/leondecastillo.html , accessed July 7, 2015.
  2. ↑ http://www.der-neue-merker.eu/wienkonzerthaus-viva-mexico
  3. ↑ http://www.theater-wien.at/index.php/de/kalender/production/12830/intro/13039
  4. ^ Israel Lozano, tenor - Engagements ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ http://www.operinwien.at/werkverz/henze/aprinz.htm
  6. ↑ Celebrity line-up at the 19th Vienna Life Ball. In: derStandard.at. May 3, 2011, accessed December 16, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Nuevo éxito del tenor León de Castillo y de la Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil de Yucatán on Por Esto! (Spanish) , accessed February 22, 2016.
  8. ↑ http://www.der-neue-merker.eu/wienkonzerthaus-viva-mexico
  9. ↑ Concert tour of the “ExilArte” project with León de Castillo on bmeia.gv.at ( Memento from September 2, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ).
  10. ↑ Exit to USA. Concert Commemorating the Exiled Artists after the Anschluss ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ http://www.marcelrubinquartett.com/
  12. ↑ http://www.der-neue-merker.eu/leon-de-castillo-ein-tenor- geht-seinen- weg
  13. ↑ http://www.primaverafestival.at/
  14. ↑ http://www.kunsthallebasel.ch/event/tausendvierhundsechzehn
personal data
SURNAME Castillo, León de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Castillo, Christian Kostal León de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-Mexican tenor, conceptual artist, music researcher and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Merida , Mexico