Lothar Zagrosek

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Lothar Zagrosek

Lothar Zagrosek (born November 13, 1942 in Otting ) is a German conductor .

Life

Lothar Zagrosek at the rehearsal in the Konzerthaus Berlin
Lothar Zagrosek at the rehearsal

During his school days he was a soloist with the Regensburger Domspatzen under the cathedral conductor Theobald Schrems . As such he sang a. a. the first boy in the opera Die Zauberflöte at the Salzburg Festival in 1954. He studied conducting with Hans Swarowsky, István Kertész, Bruno Maderna and Herbert von Karajan.

From 2006 to the end of the 2010/2011 season, Zagrosek was chief conductor and deputy director of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin , in September 2012 he returned to the Deutsche Oper Berlin and took over the musical direction of a new production of Lachenmann's Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern .

From 1997 to 2006, Lothar Zagrosek was general music director at the Württemberg State Opera in Stuttgart . His work on this house was honored twice with the award "Conductor of the Year" in the critics' survey of the magazine Opernwelt . The Stuttgart State Opera was voted Opera House of the Year five times during his tenure. He has also been the first guest conductor of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie since 1995 .

Lothar Zagrosek's musical career led after positions as general music director in Solingen and in Krefeld-Mönchengladbach in 1982 as chief conductor of the Austrian ORF symphony orchestra in Vienna. This engagement was followed in 1986 for three years as Directeur musicale of the Grand Operá de Paris and as Chief Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London. From 1990 to 1992 Lothar Zagrosek was General Music Director of the Leipzig Opera.

Zagrosek is both opera and concert conductor and has made a particular contribution to contemporary music. Countless world premieres are to be mentioned here, including works by Berthold Goldschmidt , Jörg Herchet , Günter Kochan , Helmut Lachenmann , Wolfgang Rihm and Hans Zender .

Furthermore, he performed many forgotten works again, especially music of so-called " degenerate music " (including Hans Krása , Viktor Ullmann , Erwin Schulhoff ) and early modern music of the 20th century ( Paul Hindemith , Franz Schreker ). Several of his recordings have won important prizes such as the Grand Prix du Disque , the “Cannes Classical Award” and the German Record Prize or have been nominated for a Grammy .

In 2006 Lothar Zagrosek was awarded the Hessian Culture Prize. For his outstanding musical achievements he was awarded by the Association of German Critics. V. awarded the "Critics' Prize 2009" in the field of music.

Lothar Zagrosek, to whom the promotion of young talent and cultural education are very important, is the patron of the cultural education offensive in Berlin, honorary chairman of the jury of the 2008 university competition and chairman of the artistic advisory board of the Conductors' Forum of the German Music Council.

Lothar Zagrosek appears in all of Germany's major concert halls and has recorded numerous CDs. He stood and stands at the podium of numerous important national and international orchestras, including the Berlin and Munich Philharmonic, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony, all the major German radio symphony orchestras, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony, the Orchestra dell ' Accademia di Santa Cecilia, the Orchester National de France, London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchester Symphonique de Montreal, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo. He was a guest at the Wiener and Berliner Festwochen, the London Proms, the musica viva and represented at the festivals for contemporary music in Donaueschingen, Berlin, Brussels and Paris.

His twin brother Eberhard Zagrosek founded the International Piano Competition for Amateurs in Berlin in 2005 .

Awards

Discography

  • 1984 Christoph Willibald Gluck: Paride ed Elena (Orfeo)
  • 1986 Bedřich Smetana: Festive Symphony ( Slavnostní Symfonie or Triumfální Symfonie ; ORF Broadcasting Center).
  • 1989 Gottfried von Eine: Dantons Tod (Orfeo)
  • 1989 Frank Martin: The Cornet (Orfeo), "Grand Prix du Disque"
  • 1993 Ernst Krenek: Jonny plays (Decca)
  • 1994 Berthold Goldschmidt: The Great Cuckold (Decca), "Cannes Classical Award"
  • 1994 Victor Ullmann: The Emperor of Atlantis (Decca), "Cannes Classical Award"
  • 1995 Hanns Eisler: German Symphony (Decca)
  • 1995 Anton Bruckner: Quintet in F major, Arnold Schönberg: Transfigured Night (Orfeo)
  • 1996 Paul Hindemith: The Incessant (Wergo)
  • 1998 Hans Krása: Engagement in a Dream (Decca), “Gramophone editor's choice”, “Diapason d'or”, German Record Critics' Prize
  • 1998 Olivier Messiaen: Saint François d'Assise (Orfeo)
  • 2000 Kurt Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins (Capriccio)
  • 2001 Luigi Nono: Al gran sole carico d'amore (Teldec)
  • 2003 Franz Schreker, Erwin Schulhoff, Paul Hindemith: Tanz Grotesk (Decca)
  • 2003 György Ligeti, Matthias Pintscher, Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 4
  • 2003 Helmut Lachenmann: The girl with the sulfur woods (Kairos), German record review award
  • 2005 Walter Braunfels: The Birds (Decca), Grammy nomination
  • 2005 Junge Deutsche Philharmonie: concert recordings 1997–2005
  • 2006 Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold (Naxos)
  • 2007 Anton Webern: Im Sommerwind , Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 8 "The Great" (Altus)
  • 2008 Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies No. 7 and No. 8 (Altus)
  • 2011 Olivier Messiaen, George Benjamin, Robin de Raaff, Igor Stravinsky

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Uehling: Where was support missing? ( Memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Berliner Zeitung , April 18, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Zagrosek, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor and general music director at the Württemberg State Opera in Stuttgart
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Otting