Robin Ticciati

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Robin Ticciati (* 1983 in London , England ) is a British conductor .

Ticciati has been chief conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra since the 2009/10 season and music director of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera since summer 2014 . At the beginning of the 2017/18 season he took up the position of chief conductor and artistic director of the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin . From 2010 to 2013 he was principal guest conductor of the Bamberg Symphony . In 2011 he received the ECHO Klassik Prize as the best young conductor of the year for his recording of choral symphonic works by Johannes Brahms with the Bamberg Symphony and the Bavarian Radio Choir . Also in 2011 he was honored with the “Award for Exceptional Young Talent” from the British “Critic's Circle”.

Artistic career

Trained as a violinist, pianist and drummer, Robin Ticciati turned to conducting at the age of 15 while still a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. His sponsors include Sir Colin Davis and Sir Simon Rattle . During his time as a student at St. Paul's School, he conducted the John Colet Singers in a variety of works.

In 2002 Robin Ticciati was awarded the Arthur Belgin Medal as "Most Outstanding Musician of the Year" as a member of the National Youth Orchestra. In 2005 he received the Borletti Buitoni Trust grant.

With his debut at the Filarmonica della Scala in June 2005, Robin Ticciati became the youngest conductor in the history of La Scala in Milan . In summer 2006 he conducted Mozart's Il sogno di Scipione at the Salzburg Festival .

From 2006 to 2009 he was chief conductor of the Gävle Symfoniorkester in Sweden, from 2007 to 2009 he was music director of "Glyndebourne on Tour", the touring ensemble of the Glyndebourne Festival.

Robin Ticciati has been invited as a guest conductor to orchestras such as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra , the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra , the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment , the Mahler Chamber Orchestra , the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig , the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra , the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Saxon State Orchestra Dresden .

In addition to the concert, the opera is a major focus of Robin Ticciati's conducting work. Among the operatic projects whose musical direction he took, including Verdi's Macbeth and Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel at Glyndebourne, Britten's The Rape of Lucretia with Ian Bostridge and Angelika Kirchschlager on a European tour and the Salzburg production of Mozart 's Le nozze di Figaro with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment on a guest performance in Japan. He made his debut at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden with Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel . His engagement at the Zurich Opera House , where he took over the direction of Mozart's Don Giovanni , ended with a scandal. After only two performances, he handed over the musical direction of the opera staged by Sebastian Baumgarten to the general music director of the opera house, Fabio Luisi . The director stated that the reason for the change was that Ticciati had declared that he could not stand by the production. The reviews for the directorial work were devastating and Ticciati was booed at the premiere.

In January 2014, he succeeded Vladimir Jurowski as the seventh music director in the 77-year history of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera. This makes Ticciati the first music director of "Glyndebourne on Tour", who also became music director of the original ensembles.

In 2016 he conducted the national holiday concert in Vienna, which has been taking place every year since 2006 .

Since the 2017/18 season, Ticciati has succeeded Tugan Sochijew as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin . On November 12, 2015, he signed a five-year contract at a press conference in Berlin.

Discography

  • Johannes Brahms: Nänie , song of the Parzen , alto rhapsody , song of fate . Conductor: Robin Ticciati. Bamberg Symphony - Bavarian State Philharmonic. Tudor CD 7167 SACD Hybrid

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 Music Awards Presentations. In: criticscircle.org.uk. June 9, 2011, accessed August 12, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b Robin Ticciati. In: askonasholt.com. Retrieved August 12, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Discontent at the opera house: Robin Ticciati gives "Don Giovanni" directorship. In: nzz.ch. May 31, 2013, accessed August 12, 2013 .
  4. ^ Loud boos for Sebastian Baumgarten's "Don Giovanni". In: Swiss radio and television. May 27, 2013. Retrieved August 12, 2013 .
  5. ^ Robin Ticciati to be Music Director from January 2014. In: glyndebourne.com. Archived from the original on February 22, 2014 ; accessed on August 12, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Robin Ticciati takes over the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. October 8, 2015, accessed October 8, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Robin Ticciati and the DSO: A boss to fall in love with . In: Der Tagesspiegel . November 12, 2015 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed January 8, 2016]).
personal data
SURNAME Ticciati, Robin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH London