Oswald Sallaberger

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oswald Sallaberger

Oswald Sallaberger (born July 3, 1966 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian conductor and violinist.

Life

His love and talent for music was already evident in his childhood. Starting with the flute , he quickly switched to the violin and took lessons at the Innsbruck Conservatory . At the age of 15 he moved to Salzburg to play in the Austrian Youth Philharmonic. At that time he fully experienced the great symphonic music and only through the perception of a full orchestra did the will to become a conductor develop. At 17 he became the first concertmaster in this orchestra, at 18, at the same time as studying at the Mozarteum, he graduated from the Academic Gymnasium Salzburg .

He studied violin with Thomas Zehetmair and Sándor Végh and conducting with Michael Gielen at the Mozarteum and was assistant to Claudio Abbado and Pierre Boulez . At the age of twenty he undertook his first foreign tour through the USA, during which he was head of the Austrian Chamber Orchestra a. a. performed at Carnegie Hall . He gained further experience working in various opera houses. In 1993 he received the Herbert von Karajan Foundation's Conducting Prize .

In 1993, 1995 and 1999 Sallaberger was invited to the Salzburg Festival as a conductor , where he performed works by Mozart and George Lopez . He conducted the Orchester National de France , the symphony orchestras of Südwestfunk , Süddeutscher and Saarländischer Rundfunk , the Orchester Philharmonique de Liège , the Vlaams Radio Orkest , the English Chamber Orchestra , the Philharmonic Orchestra from Graz and Weimar , the Orchester Nationale de Lyon , the Ensemble Modern and the Ensemble intercontemporain .

He realized an Anton Webern project with the Camerata Academica Salzburg in 1996 , and in the following year he made his debut at the State Opera Unter den Linden with Alban Berg's opera Lulu . In 1998 he was appointed director of the Leonardo da Vinci project at the Rouen Opera . Here he led u. a. Stravinsky's Le rossignol , Guo Wenjings chamber opera Langzi cun , Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell and Ravel's lyrical fantasy L'enfant et les sortilèges , Wagner's Tannhäuser , Der Fliegende Holländer and Tristan , Verdi's La forza del destino , La traviata , Rigoletto and Giovanna d ' Arco , Puccini's Tosca and Madama Butterfly , Strauss' Elektra and all of Mozart's great operas. At the same time he appears as an opera conductor in the opera houses of Linz , Basel , Lucerne and the Prinzregententheater in Munich. In 2010, 2012 and 2014 he was a guest conductor with the aspects Salzburg .

His interest in contemporary music led him to work closely with composers such as György Kurtág , György Ligeti , Helmut Lachenmann and Luciano Berio . He also performed Matthias Pintscher's Thomas Chatterton in Vienna and two operas by Param Vir in Antwerp.

From 1998 to 2010 he was employed as general music director at the Operá de Rouen . He is chéf fondateur (founding conductor ) of the Orchester de l'Opéra de Rouen . With this orchestra both regional appearances z. B. in the Salle Pleyel as well as international appearances u. a. carried out in Switzerland , Luxembourg and the Netherlands .

In addition, for Oswald Sallaberger, conducting music is a call for social commitment: He tries to bring young people from all " classes " closer to music. The idea is that young people, regardless of their level, can experience music up close and they become creative themselves. On the way there he initiates various projects under the term " La Maison Illuminée ", such as B. to sit young people directly between the musicians during rehearsals, to sing with them or to play concerts in poorer parts of the city.

Recordings (selection)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Sallaberger, Oswald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian conductor and violinist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck