Marc Minkowski
Marc Minkowski (born October 4, 1962 in Paris ) is a French conductor and bassoonist .
Life
The son of a pediatric professor and grandson of the eminent psychiatrist Eugène Minkowski learned French and German bassoon in his youth . At the same time he started learning the baroque bassoon . Marc Minkowski became a member of several renowned musical ensembles dedicated to historical performance practice , such as Les Arts Florissants ( William Christie ), La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy ( Jean-Claude Malgoire ), the Clemencic Consort ( René Clemencic ) and La Chapelle Royale ( Philippe Herreweghe ).
He attended his first conducting courses in Switzerland and in 1980 a two-month conducting seminar with Charles Bruck at the Pierre Monteux Conducting School in Hancock (Maine) . He quickly developed into a specialist in historical performance practice, from the baroque to the classical to the romantic. Impressed by the interpretations of Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Sigiswald Kuijken and Reinhard Goebel , he founded the early music ensemble Les Musiciens du Louvre in 1982 .
The chamber ensemble Lous Landes Consort, founded by the Freundeskreis, consisting of Marc Minkowski, Hugo Reyne , Jerôme Hantaï and Sébastien Marq , won the first prize for ensemble music at the Bruges Early Music Festival in 1984 .
Minkowski initially tried to perform and CD recordings of unknown pieces of the baroque. His interpretations of the works of Christoph Willibald Gluck , Jean-Philippe Rameau , Claudio Monteverdi , Jean-Baptiste Lully and Georg Friedrich Handel are outstanding . For financial and cultural reasons, the ensemble merged with the Orchester de chambre de Grenoble in 1996 and moved its headquarters to Grenoble .
The romantic repertoire and regular guest conductors also play an important role in Minkowski's work. He was guest conductor with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra , the Berlin Philharmonic , the Orchester de Paris , the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra , the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg , the Staatskapelle Dresden , at the Warsaw Opera or at the Brussels Opera La Monnaie and also guest conductor at the Zurich Opera House .
Marc Minkowski received the Handel Prize of the city of Halle in 2003 and the Bremen Music Festival Prize in 2005 . On November 14th, 2010 Marc Minkowski made his debut at the Vienna State Opera conducting Handel's Alcina .
Minkowski has been General Director of the Opéra national de Bordeaux since September 2016 .
In 2016, he conducted the Ensemble Musiciens du Louvre at the Vienna State Opera in a new production of Armide , sung in the original French version, staged and equipped by a French team composed of Ivan Alexandre (director), Pierre-André Weitz (set) and Bertrand Killy (Licht), with Gaëlle Arquez in the title role.
Web links
literature
- Serge Martin: Marc Minkowski. Parcours Musique, 2009, Édition Versant-Sud ISBN 978-2-930358-43-7 (in French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marie-Aude Roux: Minkowski takes over the direction of the Opéra national de Bordeaux in Le Monde , July 7, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Minkowski, Marc |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French conductor and bassoonist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th October 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |