Roger Boggasch
Roger E. Boggasch (born June 15, 1965 in Berlin ; † May 8, 2015 ) was a German conductor .
Training and artistic stations
Roger E. Boggasch studied conducting, piano and composition at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin). He attended master classes with Julius Kalmar and Leonard Bernstein . As a member of the Conductors Forum of the German Music Council, he received additional impulses from Heinz Rögner and Michael Schønwandt . In 1990 he received the “Joven Director” award of the Murcia International Music Festival , Spain.
Immediately after graduating, he began his conducting career as Deputy General Music Director of the Polish Philharmonic in Wałbrzych, in 1992 he became First Kapellmeister at the Southeast Bavarian City Theater (Landestheater Niederbayern) in Passau , where he was appointed Music Director in 1996 and General Music Director in 2001. From 2001 to 2006 he worked in the same position at Theater Hof .
Since 2006 he has been a freelance conductor, and since 2012 opera director at the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck .
As a guest conductor he worked regularly with the Hof Symphony Orchestra as well as the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra , the Junge Kammerphilharmonie Berlin , the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra and the symphony orchestra of the National Theater in Prague .
His two German premieres of Giuseppe Verdi's operas “ Alzira ” and “ Oberto conte di San Bonifacio ”, various commissioned compositions and world premieres during the European Weeks in Passau and his regular work as a lecturer and conductor of the Rheinsberg Castle Chamber Opera received international attention .
From 2000 Roger Boggasch was also active as a composer and director on various German theaters.
In May 2015, Boggasch succumbed to cancer a few weeks before his 50th birthday.
Teaching
From 1990 to 1992 Roger Boggasch held a teaching position for orchestral conducting in the school music department at the HdK Berlin. From 2004 to 2009 he was a lecturer in orchestral conducting at the University of Protestant Church Music in Bayreuth . He was regularly invited as a speaker for executive training.
Works
- Nostradamus (2000)
- Bavarian Beggar Opera (2008)
- Amberg World Theater (2009)
swell
- nostradamusmusical.de: Press comments on the world premiere.
- fichtelgebirge.de : NEW YEAR'S CONCERT IN THE ROSENTHAL THEATER ITSELF. January 6, 2010
- frankenpost.de: You can also see music. February 21, 2008
Individual evidence
- ↑ orf.at - Opera director Roger Boggasch is dead . Article dated May 10, 2015, accessed May 10, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boggasch, Roger |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boggasch, Roger E. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German conductor, composer and arranger |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 2015 |