Reinhard Seehafer

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Reinhard Seehafer

Reinhard Seehafer (born September 6, 1958 in Magdeburg ) is a German conductor , composer , pianist and artistic director .

Life

Reinhard Seehafer received his first piano lessons at the age of five. From then on he composed small piano works, chamber music, songs and appeared for the first time as a pianist in Magdeburg in 1965 . As a young musician, he won prizes at the Beethoven piano competition in Magdeburg and the improvisation competition in Weimar. In 1975 the Leipzig general music director Rolf Reuter recognized the talent of the young pianist and composer and taught him in his conducting class at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig alongside Georg Christoph Biller and Claus Peter Flor .

From 1976 to 1982 Reinhard Seehafer studied with Rolf Reuter and Kurt Masur . Studies with Otmar Suitner and Leonard Bernstein followed . In 1982 he caused a sensation with the conduct of Giacomo Puccini's Madame Butterfly at the Komische Oper Berlin and was immediately committed to the house. He worked with the directors and choreographers Harry Kupfer , Joachim Herz and Tom Schilling (choreographer) . At times he was a member of the Central Council of the FDJ . In 1986 Eterna released a long-playing record on which Seehafer conducts the "FDJ Symphony Orchestra of the GDR Schools of Music". In 1989 he was appointed chief conductor and artistic director of the Görlitz Theater .

In 1991 Reinhard Seehafer founded the transnational cultural project EUROPERA together with the artistic director of the Görlitzer Musiktheater Wolf-Dieter Ludwig (1928–2007), of which he was musical director and chief conductor until 1998. In the same year he founded the Europa Philharmonie , of which he was chief conductor until 2013. From 1994 to 2000 Reinhard Seehafer was chief conductor of the Landesjugendorchester Sachsen and from 2000 to 2006 he took over the position of artistic director of the International Summer Music Academy Schloss Hundisburg . Since 2014 he has been director of the Altmark Festival in Saxony-Anhalt .

Reinhard Seehafer has made guest appearances with the Staatskapelle Dresden , Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Staatskapelle Weimar , Dresdner Philharmonie , Robert-Schumann Philharmonie , Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt , Leipziger Symphonieorchester , Konzerthausorchester Berlin , Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonie Lodz , Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra , PKF-Prague Philharmonia, Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra , the National Orchestra of Bolshoi Theater Minsk, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia, Belgrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra , Orchestra sinfonica di Roma , Amazonas Philharmonic Manaus, Orchestra dell'Arena di Verona, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Moments Musicaux Taipei, Hermitage Orchestra St. Petersburg, Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México as well as in China, the UAE, the USA and Japan.

Reinhard Seehafer dedicates himself to different genres and styles in his compositional work. In addition to chamber music and opera, great symphonic works occupy a central position in his work as a composer. In 2007 Reinhard Seehafer created a reconstructed version of the first German opera Dafne , which was lost since the Thirty Years' War, based on the original libretto by Martin Opitz based on music by Heinrich Schütz . From 2009 to 2012 he was composer in residence of the SAP Symphony Orchestra. Reinhard Seehafer has been composer in residence of the annual concert series along the Romanesque Road since 2003 . In 2015 he took over the leadership of the Altmark composer class.

Reinhard Seehafer has two daughters from his first marriage with the harpist Cornelia Smaczny and lives in his second marriage with singer and cultural manager Carmen Seehafer, with whom he has a son and a daughter.

Works (selection)

  • Trio for piano, violin and violoncello Six Variations on a theme des trouveres (1999); WP September 11, 2004, New York (USA)
  • Parable based on Lessing's Nathan the Wise for soprano, alto, bass and orchestra (2002); WP September 6, 2002, Beijing (China)
  • The desert has twelve things meditation according to the words of Mechthild von Magdeburg (2002); WP July 11, 2003, Magdeburg
  • Concert for Cello and Orchestra (2003); WP August 9, 2003 Hundisburg Castle
  • Symphony No. 1 (2003)
  • Opera “Hochzeit an der Elbe” (2004); Libretto: Julia Melcher; World premiere in concert, August 7, 2004, Torgau
  • Sinfonietta Dauna (2005); Premiere July 23, 2005, Barleben
  • Amadeus Fantasy (2005); WP March 11, 2006, Latina (Italy)
  • Jahreszeiten-Elfchen cycle for children's choir, flute and piano (2005)
  • Land of Enchantment (2006); Premiere March 31, 2007, Las Cruces (USA)
  • Dafne reconstruction of the first German opera by Heinrich Schütz and Martin Opitz (2007); WP September 6, 2008, Torgau
  • BachTrium (2007); WP February 7, 2008, Paarl (South Africa)
  • Mondviole Poem after Israel Phalleen for viola, baritone and orchestra (2007)
  • Leaving Saturn song cycle for mezzo-soprano and piano (2008)
  • Esther arrangement of the biblical opera by Joseph Messner (2008); WP 28 May 2011, Schwaz (Austria)
  • Unused Rooms ... silence music for brass instruments (2009)
  • Concerto for 2 pianos for eight hands and orchestra Ludus quadruplus ad honorem Henning Kagermann (2009); Premiere May 3, 2009, Walldorf / Baden
  • Concerto for violin, tuba and orchestra (2009); WP January 22, 2011, Heidelberg
  • Roots symphonic parable for large orchestra on the 70th birthday of Dietmar Hopp (2009); WP April 26, 2010, Walldorf / Baden
  • The Crucified Planet Oratory (2010)
  • Piano quintet (2011); WP October 21, 2011, New York (USA)
  • Piano Sonata No. 3 Campane di Verona (2012); WP February 15, 2013, Eilenburg
  • moshemil concerto for flute, violoncello and string orchestra (2014)
  • Time becomes space here (2015); WP May 9, 2015, Jerichow Monastery
  • The Cherry Blossom Festival Chamber Opera in 2 acts according to Klabund (2015)
  • Alban and the Queen Musical (2016); Libretto: Kay Zeisberg; WP May 5, 2017, Weißenfels
  • Piano trio "Schulenburg-Trio" (2017); WP July 9, 2017, Burg Apenburg

Seehafers works are published by Breitkopf & Härtel , Verlag Neue Musik Berlin and Musikverlag Bergauer (Austria).

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry at archive.thulb.uni-jena.de, accessed on February 19, 2020
  2. ↑ Description of the record vinyl-hst.de, accessed on February 19, 2020
  3. ^ Altmark Festival - Artistic Director
  4. ↑ Reinhard Seehafer in Israel on: habama.co.il of March 23, 2011
  5. ↑ Reinhard Seehafer Premiere October 2011 in New York ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  6. ↑ A musical Mountains az-online.de of 11 July 2017 Retrieved on July 14, 2017
  7. ^ Reinhard Seehafer on: Verlag Neue Musik
personal data
SURNAME Sea oats, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor, composer and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg