Michel Tabachnik

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Michel Tabachnik (2009)

Michel Tabachnik (born November 10, 1942 in Geneva ) is a Swiss conductor and composer .

Professional background

Michel Tabachnik with Pierre Boulez

Tabachnik studied piano, composition and conducting in Geneva. This was followed by master classes with Henri Pousseur , Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez in Darmstadt. Then he became Igor Markevitch's assistant in Madrid at the RTVE Symphony Orchestra . In 1966, Tabachnik was brought to London by Pierre Boulez as an assistant to the BBC Symphony Orchestra .

In 1971 Herbert von Karajan invited him to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic . In 1973 Tabachnik became chief conductor of the orchestra at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. In 1975 he founded the Metz Philharmonic Orchestra , which he directed from 1976 to 1981. In 1976 he took over the management of the Ensemble InterContemporain in Paris from Pierre Boulez.

Tabachnik led various youth orchestras and founded the Orchester des Jeunes de la Méditerranée in 1984, which is still a welcome guest at French festivals.

Through his work with the avant-garde of the post-war period (in addition to Boulez and Stockhausen also György Ligeti , Luciano Berio and Iannis Xenakis ), Tabachnik made a name for himself as an inspired advocate of new music. He regularly conducted premieres, including around 20 works by Iannis Xenakis, who considered him his favorite performer.

Tabachnik has conducted major orchestras such as the Orchester de Paris , the Concertgebouworkest (Amsterdam), the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Konzerthausorchester Berlin , the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchester de la Suisse romande (Geneva) and the NHK Symphony Orchestra (Tokyo). In addition, he conducted at the major opera houses in Paris, Toronto, Geneva, Rome, Montreal, Zurich and Copenhagen.

In 1995 Tabachnik was named Artist of the Year by the Centro Internazionale d'Arte e di Cultura in Rome .

From 2008 to 2015 he was Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Brussels Philharmonic .
Since 2011 Tabachnik has been honorary conductor of the Noord Nederlands Orkest in the Netherlands.

Sun Temple Affair

On June 11, 1996, Tabachnik was arrested in Nanterre near Paris and in 2001 charged with “membership in a criminal organization” on account of his alleged membership in the Order of the Sun Temple in Grenoble . The Sun Templars had previously attracted media attention worldwide through four collective ritual acts of murder and suicide by a total of 74 members in 1993, 1995 and 1997. Tabachnik's wife was also killed here. As a result of the events, the order was banned and declared criminal. The prosecutor had demanded five years' imprisonment without parole for Tabachnik, the defense lawyer pleaded for acquittal. On June 25, 2001, Tabachnik was acquitted in the first instance. After Tabachnik's acquittal in 2001, the Grenoble public prosecutor's office appealed. The appeals court upheld the acquittal.

Publications

  • Bouc émissaire. Michel Lafon, Paris 1997.
  • Il était une fois un enfant. Roman, Verlag l'Aire, Vevey 1999.
  • Above all the music. Rombach Verlag, Freiburg 2012. ISBN 978-3793097136
  • L'homme sauvage. Roman, Ring Verlag, Paris 2013.

Compositions

  • Supernovae , 1967
  • Frize , 1968
  • Fresque , 1969
  • Invention à 16 voix , 1972
  • Mondes , 1972
  • Sillages , 1972
  • D'autres Sillages , 1972
  • Movimenti , 1973
  • Éclipses , 1974
  • Argile , 1974
  • Trois Impressions , 1975
  • Les Perséïdes , 1981
  • Cosmogony , 1981
  • l'Arch , 1982
  • 7 Rituels Atlantes , 1984
  • Pacte des onzes (Gospel according to Thomas) , 1985
  • Élévation , 1990
  • Prelude à la Légende , 1989
  • Le Cri de Mohim , 1991
  • Evocation , 1994
  • La Légende de Haïsha , 1989
  • Concerto pour piano et orchester de chamber , 2003
  • Nord pour orchester, 2006
  • Genèse , deuxième concerto pour violon et orchester, 2010
  • Benjamin, dernière nuit , opera, 2012

Discography

Lyrinx:

  • Grieg, Schumann: Piano Concertos | Catherine Collard (piano), Monte-Carlo Philharmonic (1990)
  • Liszt, Saint-Saëns: Concertos pour piano et orchester | Katia Skanavi (piano), Orchester Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo (1994)
  • Rachmaninov | Katia Skanavi (piano), Brussels Philharmonic (2012)

Brussels Philharmonic Recordings:

  • Debussy - La Mer | Brussels Philharmonic & Flemish Radio Choir (2011)
  • Tchaikovsky - Pathétique | Brussels Philharmonic (2012)
  • Dvořák - New World | Brussels Philharmonic (2012)
  • Stravinsky - Sacre du Printemps | Brussels Philharmonic (2013)

Various:

  • Wagner: Tannhäuser | Philharmonic Orchestra Slovenia (POSR, 1994)
  • Brahms: Symphony No. 1 | Noord Nederlands Orkest (NNO, 2007)
  • Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 | Noord Nederlands Orkest (NNO, 2007)
  • Flemish Connection: Flor Alpaerts | Brussels Philharmonic (Klara, 2009)
  • Jani Christou: Practice for string orchestra and piano | Radiophilharmonie Hannover of the NDR (Edition RZ, 1973)
  • Michel Tabachnik: Cosmogony pour une Rose | Radiophilharmonie des NDR (MGB (Grammont), 1997)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/musdico/Tabachnik/170280
  2. ↑ a b LUCERNE FESTIVAL - Conductors - Michel Tabachnik ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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.lucernefestival.ch
  3. ↑ http://issuu.com/durand.salabert.eschig/docs/tabachnik_cat
  4. ↑ http://www.larousse.fr/archives/musique/page/1051
  5. ↑ Kristin Van Den Buys: 'Het Orkest', published by Lannoo Campus, 2013 Belgium, p. 250
  6. ^ Volksblatt Liechtenstein, September 19, 2013
  7. ↑ http://www.frieschdagblad.nl/index.asp?artID=54683
  8. ↑ Hugo Stamm: Under the Spell of the Apocalypse. End time ideas in churches, sects and cults. Pendo, Zurich 1998. p. 212.
  9. ↑ Marc Roberts Team: Lexicon of Satanism and the witchcraft. VF Collector Verlag, Graz 2004, ISBN 3-85365-205-0 , p. 252.
  10. ^ Conductor Tabachnik free , Der Spiegel , June 26, 2001
  11. ↑ Michel Tabachnik relaxé en appel L'Express , accessed on June 23, 2013
  12. ^ Ordre du Temple solaire: la relaxe de Michel Tabachnik confirmée en appel , Le Monde , December 20, 2006
  13. ^ Appeal process for the shooting of sun templars , Der Tagesspiegel , October 24, 2006, accessed on June 23, 2013.
  14. ↑ Michel Tabachnik also acquits the Court of Appeal , Swissinfo , December 20, 2006, accessed on June 23, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Tabachnik, Michel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva