Mario Venzago
Mario Venzago (born July 1, 1948 in Zurich ) is a Swiss pianist and conductor .
Degree and pianist
Mario Venzago comes from an Italian-German family. His brother is the Zurich photographer and filmmaker Alberto Venzago . Venzago began his pianist career very early at the age of five. He studied in Zurich at the music academy and the university . He was a conducting student of Erich Schmid , Simon Rattle's predecessor as chief conductor in Birmingham . At first he worked as a concert pianist, which meant he had to travel a lot. Then he got a permanent job at the Radio of Italian-speaking Switzerland ( RTSI ). Recordings are available from this period of his career. Venzago completed his conducting studies in Vienna with Hans Swarowsky and began conducting in Lugano .
From 1978 to 1986 he was conductor of the Winterthur city orchestra for eight years , after which he was general music director of the city of Heidelberg until 1989 and later chief conductor of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen , the Graz Opera and the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra , the Basel Symphony Orchestra and the Basque National Orchestra San, among others Sebastian. From 2000 to 2003 he was Artistic Director (Music Director) of the Baltimore Music Summer Festival and from 2002 to 2009 he was chief conductor of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra (USA), from 2004 to 2007 also chief conductor of the Swedish National Orchestra, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra . From 1997 to 2001 and 2005 to 2007 he was a professor at the State University of Music in Mannheim . He lives in Heidelberg. Mario Venzago has held the position of “Schumann Guest of the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker ” since 2008 and has been chief conductor and artistic director of the Bern Symphony Orchestra since the 2010/11 season . In 2010 he was also "Artist in Association" of the Tapiola Sinfonietta.
conductor
- 1978–1986 conductor of the Winterthur City Orchestra
- 1978–1986 radio conductor of the Orchester de la Suisse Romande , Geneva
- 1978–1986 Theater Kapellmeister at the Lucerne Theater
- 1986–1989 General Music Director at the Heidelberg City Theater
- 1986–1989 director of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
- 1991–1994 chief conductor of the Graz Opera and the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra
- 1997–2003 chief conductor of the Basel Symphony Orchestra
- 1999–2002 chief conductor of the Basque National Orchestra , San Sebastian
- 2000–2003 Artistic Director of the Baltimore Music Summer Festival (succeeding Pinchas Zukerman )
- 2002–2009 Chief Conductor of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra (USA)
- 2004–2007 chief conductor of the Swedish National Orchestra, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra (succeeding Neeme Järvi )
- 2010 "Artist in Association" of the Tapiola Sinfonietta
- since 2010: Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Bern Symphony Orchestra
Guest conductor
- Mario Venzago has conducted many important orchestras and at famous festivals, such as the Berlin Philharmonic , at the Salzburg Festival and the Lucerne Festival .
- He is also a regular guest conductor in Birmingham, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Munich (Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio, Chamber Orchestra), at the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the NHK Tokyo, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra.
- Venzago has conducted various operas and has worked with directors such as Ruth Berghaus and Peter Konwitschny .
- He has given concerts with great soloists, a. a. with Martha Argerich , Joshua Bell , Nelson Freire , Leila Josefowicz , Gidon Kremer , Lang Lang , Robert Levin , Radu Lupu , Mischa Maisky , Anne-Sophie Mutter , Aurèle Nicolet , Ohlson, Mikhail Pletnev , Gil Shaham , Jean Louis Steuerman , Christian Tetzlaff , Maxim Vengerov , Thomas Zehetmair , Krystian Zimerman or Frank Peter Zimmermann , and worked with famous singers such as Francisco Araiza , Juliane Banse , Agnes Baltsa , Haefliger, Ben Heppner , Cornelia Kallisch , Yvonne Naef , Elsbeth Moser , Lucia Popp and Ruth Ziesak .
- He founded the Philharmonic Workshop , a freelance symphony orchestra in Switzerland .
- Venzago created - based on the sources - his own orchestral version of Igor Stravinsky's Les Noces .
- He also brought out his own (original) version of the Glagolitic Mass (Glagolská mše) , a cantata for soloists, choir, orchestra and organ (1926) by Leoš Janáček .
- Mario Venzago has been a guest conductor with the Federal Youth Orchestra six times (1996, 1999, 2000, 2010, 2012) .
- 2000/01 ( Milan ): Conductor at La Scala .
- 2000/01 ( London ): Conductor with the London Philharmonic Orchestra .
- 2003 ( Philadelphia ): Conductor with the Philadelphia Orchestra .
- 2004 ( Boston ): Conductor with the Boston Symphony Orchestra .
Awards
- Grand Prix du Disque
- Diapason d'or
- Prix Edison
- 2007: Honorary conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the City of Heidelberg
Discography
- Complete recording of Anton Bruckner's symphonies , various orchestras; Label: cpo
- Complete recording of the symphonic works by Robert Schumann , Basel Symphony Orchestra; Label: novalis
- Luigi Nono : orchestral works; Label: col legno
- Maurice Ravel : orchestral works, 2003; Label: novalis
- Othmar Schoeck : Venus and Penthesilea (operas)
literature
- Ingrid Bigler-Marshal: Mario Venzago . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1998.
Web links
Individual evidence
Heinrich Hammer (1905–1907) | Wilhelm Stenhammar (1907–1922) | Ture Rangström (1922–1925) | Tor Mann (1925–1939) | Issay Dobrowen (1941–1953) | Dean Dixon (1953-1960) | Sergiu Comissiona (1967–1973) | Sixten Ehrling (1974–1976) | Charles Dutoit (1976-1979) | Neeme Järvi (1982-2004) | Mario Venzago (2004–2007) | Gustavo Dudamel (2007–2012) | Santtu-Matias Rouvali (since 2017)
Karl Munzinger (1896–1909) | Fritz Brun (1909–1941) | Luc Balmer (1941–1964) | Paul Kletzki (1964–1968) | Charles Dutoit (1968–1978) | Gustav Kuhn (1979–1983) | Peter Maag (1984-1991) | Dmitri Kitajenko (1991-2004) | Andrey Boreyko (2005-2010) | Mario Venzago (since 2010)
Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker (1873–1884) | Hermann Scherchen (1922–1950) | Mario Venzago (1978–1986) | Franz Welser-Möst (1987–1990) | János Fürst (1990–1994) | Heinrich Schiff (1995–2001) | Jac van Steen (2002-2008) | Douglas Boyd (2009-2016) | Thomas Zehetmair (since 2016)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Venzago, Mario |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss pianist and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |