Matthias Kuntzsch

Matthias Kuntzsch (born September 22, 1935 in Karlsruhe ) is a German conductor who lives in the United States .

Life

Matthias Kuntzsch attended school in Braunschweig , where his grandmother, Martha Fuchs , was mayor . At the Academy for Music and Theater in Hanover , he studied piano with the famous pianist Karl Engel . He continued his studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and in Switzerland and attended master classes with Lovro von Matačić , Herbert von Karajan and Pablo Casals .

Matthias Kuntzsch is married to the US singer ( mezzo-soprano , soprano ) Sylvia Anderson.

Stations in his career as a conductor

• State Theater Braunschweig ,
• Theater Bonn ,
• National Theater Mannheim ,
• Hamburg State Opera ,
• National Theater Munich ,
• Lübeck Theater ,
• Saarland State Theater ,
• Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute (BASOTI).

Awards

• 1960: Award of the Lower Saxony Art Prize

Web links

• Professor Matthias Kuntzsch - Music Director and Conductor , accessed on February 21, 2018.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Visit by Martha Fuchs' grandson ( Memento from February 21, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 21, 2018.
2. ^ Sylvia Anderson - Personal note , accessed February 21, 2018.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Conductors and their places of work , accessed on November 19, 2018.
4. ^ Matthias Kuntzsch - GMD 1977–1985 , accessed on February 21, 2018.
5. ↑ BASOTI founder , accessed on February 22, 2018.
6. ↑ Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Kuntzsch, Matthias, p. 255 .