Peter Ruzicka

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Peter Ruzicka (born July 3, 1948 in Düsseldorf ) is a German composer , conductor and artistic director . From 2002 to 2006 he directed the Salzburg Festival , from July 2015 he took over as managing director of the Salzburg Easter Festival .

Life

Peter Ruzicka received an instrumental and theoretical training at the Hamburg Conservatory ( piano , oboe , composition theory). This was followed by composition studies with Hans Werner Henze and Hans Otte . He studied law and music sciences in Munich , Hamburg and Berlin and obtained his doctorate in 1977 with an interdisciplinary dissertation on "eternal moral rights".

He has received numerous prizes and awards for his compositions (including the Unesco Prize "International Rostrum of Composers", Paris; Louis Spohr Music Prize). Peter Ruzicka's works have been performed by leading orchestras and ensembles such as the Berlin Philharmonic , all German radio symphony orchestras, the Dresden Staatskapelle , the Munich Philharmonic , the Bamberg Symphony , the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra , the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam , the Philharmonia Orchestra London , the Orchester Philharmonique de Paris, the Czech Philharmonic , the RSO Vienna, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra . Conductors such as Gerd Albrecht , Vladimir Ashkenazy , Semjon Bytschkow , Riccardo Chailly , Christoph Eschenbach , Michael Gielen , Eliahu Inbal , Mariss Jansons , Kurt Masur , Antonio Pappano , Giuseppe Sinopoli and Christian Thielemann have stood up for his music. His opera Celan had its world premiere in 2001 at the Dresden State Opera . Ruzicka's Musiktheater Hölderlin premiered in 2008 at the State Opera Unter den Linden Berlin, his opera Benjamin premiered in 2018 at the Hamburg State Opera.

Peter Ruzicka has been a professor at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater since 1990 . The composer is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and the Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg .

From 1979 to 1987 Peter Ruzicka was director of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra , and from 1988 to 1997 he was director of the Hamburg State Opera and the Hamburg Philharmonic . In 1996, he succeeded Hans Werner Henze as artistic director of the Munich Biennale , which he held until 2014. In 1997 he also became artistic advisor to the Concertgebouw Orchestra. In 1999 he was appointed President of the Bavarian Theater Academy . From 2001 to 2006, Ruzicka was artistic director of the Salzburg Festival .

As a conductor, Peter Ruzicka has directed the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin - with which he has recorded CD productions of works by Mahler , Schreker and Pettersson -, the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio, the NDR Symphony Orchestra - with which a CD cycle of 12 orchestral works by Hans Werner Henze was created - the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the RSO Stuttgart, the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg, the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt, the MDR Symphony Orchestra Leipzig, the Munich Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the German Chamber Philharmonic, the Orchester symphonique de Montréal, the Danish National Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic, the RSO Vienna, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Gulbenkian Orchestra Lisbon, the China Philharmonic Orchestra, the Shanghai Symp hony Orchestra and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra Tokyo.

On July 1, 2015, he took over the role of Managing Director of the Salzburg Easter Festival and will end this on June 30, 2020.

Compositions (selection)

  • Metamorphoses over a sound field by Joseph Haydn (1990), for large orchestra
  • "... the blessed, the cursed ..." (1991), four orchestral sketches
  • Eight songs based on fragments by Nietzsche (1992), for mezzo-soprano (baritone) and piano
  • About a Disappearance (1992), 3rd string quartet
  • Tallis (1993), Einstrahlungen for orchestra
  • ... Insel, randlos ... (1994/95), for violin, chamber choir and orchestra
  • "... sich losierend" (1996), for string quartet and speaker
  • Die Sonne sinks (1997–2000), eight chants based on fragments by Nietzsche for Bartion or mezzo-soprano and orchestra
  • Nachtstück (1997), for orchestra
  • "... Vorgefühle ..." (1998), for orchestra
  • Recherche (-im Innersten) (1998), for choir and orchestra
  • Celan (1998/99), music theater in seven drafts
  • Nachklang (1999), Spiegel for orchestra
  • Tombeau (2000), for flute (alto flute, bass flute) and string quartet
  • Memory (2001), tracks for clarinet and orchestra
  • Memorial (2001), for orchestra
  • Celan Symphony (2002), for baritone, mezzo-soprano and large orchestra
  • Affluence (2003), for large orchestra
  • Sturz (2004), for string quartet
  • "... ins Offene ..." (2005/06), music for 22 strings
  • Vorecho (2005), Eight approaches for large orchestra
  • Parergon (2006), Seven sketches for “Hölderlin” for piano
  • "... and would you like to lay your hands on me ..." - Five fragments by Hölderlin for baritone and piano (2006/07)
  • Hölderlin (2007), An Expedition
  • Maelstrom (2007), for large orchestra
  • Postscript (2008), Three pieces for violoncello and piano
  • Remembering and Forgetting (2008), 6th string quartet with soprano
  • Recitative (2009), for violoncello and piano
  • “... Take back ...” (2009), for large orchestra
  • Trans (2009) for chamber orchestra
  • ... Über die Grenz (2010) for violoncello and chamber ensemble
  • Five Scenes (2009), for piano
  • Compensazione (1966–2009), memory for piano
  • Mahler I Bild (2010), for orchestra
  • Registration (2010), six pieces for large orchestra
  • Aulodie (2011), music for oboe and orchestra
  • About Unstern (2011), overpainting for large orchestra
  • ... The further I get ... , homage for chamber ensemble (2011)
  • Clouds for large orchestra with string quartet (2012/13)
  • Three pieces for clarinet solo (2012)
  • RW , overpainting for large orchestra (2012)
  • Spiral , concerto for horn quartet and orchestra (2013/14)
  • Elegy , memory for orchestra (2014)
  • Flucht , six passages for orchestra (2014)
  • Benjamin , music theater in seven stations (2015/16)
  • Mnemosyne for soprano, 18 strings and percussion (2016)
  • "... possible-a-chaque-instant" , 7th string quartet (2016)
  • Still for trombone and chamber orchestra (2016)
  • Sonata per contrabbasso (2016)
  • Loop for trumpet (flugelhorn), piccolo trumpet and orchestra (2018)
  • Furioso for orchestra (2019)
  • Attribution for orchestra (2020)
  • Départ , concert for viola and orchestra (2020)

Awards and honorary memberships

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ derStandard.at - Peter Ruzicka new head of the Salzburg Easter Festival . Article dated October 24, 2014, accessed October 24, 2014.
  2. ↑ Bachler is to become the artistic director of the Salzburg Easter Festival ( memento from November 8, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) on msn.com from September 13, 2018, accessed on November 8, 2018
  3. ↑ Easter Festival: Bachler officially appointed boss on ORF Salzburg on November 8, 2018, accessed on November 8, 2018
  4. ^ Grafenegg: Peter Ruzicka becomes composer in residence . Article dated November 7, 2018, accessed November 8, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Ruzicka, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, conductor and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf