Markus Rindt

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Markus Rindt (* 1967 in Magdeburg ) is a German horn player . He is the artistic director and co-founder of the Dresden Symphony Orchestra .

Career

From 1979 to 1985 Rindt attended the special school for music Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden. This was followed by studies (horn) at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden with Professor Peter Damm until 1989 . His first engagement as a solo horn player was with the orchestra of the Landesbühnen Sachsen (1988/89). After fleeing to the West , he studied horn at the Cologne University of Music with Erich Penzel .

In 1996 he and Sven Helbig founded the Dresden Symphony Orchestra , which today is one of the most prominent European orchestras for contemporary music. Markus Rindt is the director of the orchestra.

Intendant of the Dresden Symphony Orchestra

In 2003, the Dresden Symphony Orchestra attracted international attention with the publication of the song cycle “My Heart Burns” based on texts and music by the band Rammstein . The composer Torsten Rasch gave the rock songs a new sound together with the orchestra. In 2004 the Dresden Symphony Orchestra received the ECHO Klassik for this CD, which was published by Deutsche Grammophon .

In 2004 the Dresden Sinfoniker recorded a new soundtrack for Sergei Eisenstein's silent film Battleship Potemkin with the Pet Shop Boys for EMI . The accompanying album was released in 2005 under the title Battleship Potemkin . In 2006 they produced the high-rise symphony in which the orchestra played together with the Pet Shop Boys on the balconies of an apartment block on Prager Strasse in Dresden and was conducted by Jonathan Stockhammer from a crane at a height of 35 meters.

In 2008 Michael Helmrath opened the jubilee concert for the 10th anniversary of the Dresden Symphony Orchestra with the “First Remote Conducting in the World”. In the midst of London street musicians, he conducted the overture to Star Wars , while the musicians followed his conduct on canvas from the Kulturpalast in Dresden .

The German-Turkish-Armenian composer and guitarist Marc Sinan has been cooperating successfully with the Dresden Symphony Orchestra and Markus Rindt since 2010 . The HELLERAU - European Center for the Arts Dresden laid the foundation stone for this connection with the commissioned production "Hasretim - an Anatolian journey" and has accompanied it continuously ever since. Together, Sinan and Rindt developed a "unique" way of working, according to the director of the Festspielhaus Dieter Jaenicke: They traveled to Rajasthan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan to track down extraordinary traditional musicians. They documented their art in image and sound. These video clips as well as some of these artists are later part of the production. Your productions have received several awards; In 2011, the Dresden Symphony Orchestra and Marc Sinan received the UNESCO special “ World Horizon” award for this .

The end of the Mayan calendar on December 21, 2012 was the occasion for a concert in the Saxon State Library in Dresden , in which the Codex Dresdensis , one of the three surviving Mayan manuscripts, is on display. The Dresden Symphony Orchestra performed works by Silvestre Revueltas and Enrico Chapela under the direction of the Mexican conductor José Areán . The concert was broadcast worldwide by Arte Live Web.

In 2013 the Dresdner Sinfoniker were guests at MaerzMusik , the festival for current music of the Berliner Festspiele.

In April 2016 the orchestra gained international attention through the music project "Aghet". The Turkish state asked the EU Commission to stop funding this project. The background to this is that "Aghet" addresses the Turkish genocide against the Armenians in 1915. Nevertheless, the work was performed on April 30th in the Festspielhaus Hellerau .

The orchestra worked u. a. with the Kronos Quartet , René Pape , Bryn Terfel , Katharina Thalbach , Peter Damm , Andreas Boyde and Peter Bruns . Concert tours led the Dresden Symphony Orchestra a. a. to London, Athens , Madrid and Paris . In 2000 the ensemble received the Dresden Art Prize.

Awards and juror

  • 2000: Art Prize of the City of Dresden
  • 2008: Cultural Manager of the Year
  • In 2010 he was voted "Dresdener of the Decade" by the readers of the Dresdner Neuesten Nachrichten
  • 2011: Special "World Horizon" award from the German UNESCO Commission for "Hasretim - An Anatolian Journey"
  • 2014: Best list of the German record review for "Hasretim - An Anatolian Journey"
  • 2015: Nomination for the Federal President's Prize "Children to Olympus" for the mediation project on the music theater project "Dede Korkut - The customer of Tepegöz"
  • 2018: Erich Kästner Prize (Dresden)
  • Regular juror at composition competitions , such as the Transparent Factory and the Brandenburg Biennale, as well as jury member in other committees

Projects (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Winner after 1990. (PDF; 10 KB) Art Prize of the City of Dresden. Retrieved June 28, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Anders Winter: Markus Rindt is cultural manager of the year 2008. In: musik-in-dresden.de. November 12, 2008. Retrieved June 28, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Markus Rindt. (No longer available online.) Dresdner Sinfoniker, archived from the original on October 7, 2017 ; accessed on June 28, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aghet.eu
personal data
SURNAME Rindt, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg