Renate Wolter-Seevers

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Renate Wolter-Seevers (born 1959 ) is a German sound engineer who works for Radio Bremen . As a producer, she has already been nominated six times for a Grammy Award for her productions and won the 2015 Grammy for the production of the opera La descente d'Orphée aux enfers by Marc-Antoine Charpentier with the Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble & Vocal Ensemble under the direction of Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs .

biography

Renate Wolter-Seevers studied at the Berlin University of Music and graduated as a sound engineer and music teacher for composition and aural training. In 1982 she joined Radio Bremen as a temporary graduate and was later employed there on a permanent basis. Since then she has worked on numerous recordings of classical music pieces for Radio Bremen, most of which have also been published.

Since 2004 she has been working with the Boston Early Music Festival and its director Stephen Stubbs , formerly lute professor at the University of the Arts Bremen , and has produced several operas with it and Radio Bremen, which were recorded in the Bremen broadcasting hall . Her opera Thésée by Jean-Baptiste Lully with Howard Crook , Ellen Hargis , Laura Pudwell , Harry van der Kamp and the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra & Chorus under the direction of Paul O'Dette and Stephen Stubbs won the Grammy Awards 2008 nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording . Five more nominations followed by 2020 and in 2015 she won the Grammy for the production of the opera La descente d'Orphée aux enfers by Marc-Antoine Charpentier with the Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble & Vocal Ensemble.

Wolter-Seevers is married to the now retired former head of the sound department of the Bremen theater. She is the mother of two children.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ calculated from Berit Böhme: sound engineer Renate Wolter-Seevers nominated again for a Grammy Radio Bremen press office, January 21, 2020; accessed on February 24, 2020. ("The 60-year-old is nominated")
  2. ↑ a b c d e Berit Böhme: sound engineer Renate Wolter-Seevers nominated again for a Grammy Radio Bremen press office, January 21, 2020; accessed on February 24, 2020.
  3. ↑ The discogs database lists 107 recordings (as of February 2020) for which Renate Wolter-Seevers was responsible for production and technology: Renate Wolter-Seevers at Discogs (English); accessed on February 24, 2020.
  4. ↑ Boston Early Music Festival receives its sixth nomination for Best Opera Recording for the 2020 GRAMMY Awards. Boston Early Music Festival, press release November 22, 2018; accessed on February 24, 2020.
  5. ↑ Grammy nomination for Radio Bremen production. Interview with Renate Wolter-Seevers, Radio Bremen, November 22, 2019; accessed on February 24, 2020.
  6. ^ A Grammy goes to Bremen Weser-Kurier, February 9, 2015; accessed on February 24, 2020.

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personal data
SURNAME Wolter-Seevers, Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sound engineer and music producer at Radio Bremen
DATE OF BIRTH 1959