Roland Böer
Roland Böer (born December 6, 1970 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ) is a German conductor . He has been musical director since 2009 and artistic director of the Cantiere Internationale d'Arte di Montepulciano festival since 2015 . From the 2018/19 season he will be first guest conductor of the Mikhailovsky Theater in Saint Petersburg for three years .
life and career
Studies and first engagements
After studying music with Günther Wich as a major in conducting at the State University of Music in Würzburg , he was solo coach at the Frankfurt Opera and musical director of the Frankfurt Chamber Opera from 1996 to 1999 . From 1999 to 2001 he went to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf / Duisburg as a solo coach with a conducting engagement and also worked as an assistant to Antonio Pappano during the Bayreuth Festival , at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels and at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London.
From 2002 to 2008 he was Kapellmeister at the Frankfurt Opera.
Opera
As an opera conductor he was a guest a. at the Teatro alla Scala , at the opera houses in Rome , Florence and Bari, at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and the English National Opera in London, at the Royal Opera Houses in Stockholm and Copenhagen , the State Operas in Warsaw, Budapest and Prague, at the Opéra National du Rhin and the Opéra de Nice , the Vienna Volksoper and the German and Komische Oper Berlin. In 2018 he made his debut at the New National Theater Tokyo and the Opéra de Lyon .
He developed numerous new productions with directors such as Daniele Abbado, William Kentridge , Tilman Knabe , Christoph Loy , Caterina Panti Liberovici, David McVicar , Keith Warner and Stein Winge.
concert
As a concert conductor he was a. a. guest of the London Symphony Orchestra , the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra , the Filarmonica della Scala, the Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia , the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Orchestra of the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchester Philharmonique de Luxembourg , as well as with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Bavarian Radio Orchestra and the Saarbrücken-Kaiserslautern Radio Philharmonic .
He has given concerts with well-known soloists, including Christian Tetzlaff , Janine Jansen , Veronika Eberle , Francesco d'Orazio, Christel Lee and Julian Rachlin , Heinrich Schiff , Miklos Perenyi , Mischa Maisky and Danjulo Ishizaka , Claire Marie Le Guay, Mariangela Vacatello and Markus Bellheim .
He has conducted the Ensemble Modern , Northern Sinfonia, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra Regionale della Toscana and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen .
Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte di Montepulciano
The " Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte " (literally: International Art Workshop) was founded in 1976 by the composer Hans Werner Henze and is still closely connected to his name and work to this day. Roland Böer took over the musical direction in 2009 and has been the successor to the composer Detlev Glanert since 2015, and has also been the artistic director of the festival, in which young musicians work and perform together with internationally renowned artists every year. Since all participants without exception waive their fees, the focus is solely on making music together.
For outstanding services to the cultural life of Montepulciano , Roland Böer was awarded the “Grifo Poliziano” in 2018 and thus the honorary citizenship of the city.
Sound recordings
- Adagietto (Michiè Nakamaru, Philharmonia Orchestra, Roland Böer), EMI , TOCE-55629
- Federico Ricci : Corrado d'Altamura (Dimitra Theodossiou, Dmitry Korchak, James Westman, Ann Taylor, Andrew Foster-Williams, Cora Burggraaf, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Philharmonia Orchestra, Roland Böer), world premiere recording, OperaRara, ORR246
- Alexander Glasunow , Les Saisons / Robert Schumann : 1st symphony, arrangement by Gustav Mahler ( Bamberg Symphony Orchestra , Roland Böer), archive production by Bayerischer Rundfunk
- Voice 2015: Recording of the 4 final concerts of the International Queen Elisabeth Singing Competition in Brussels (Orchester de la Monnaie, Roland Böer)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Die Zauberflöte - Teatro alla Scala Milan (director: William Kentridge, set design: William Kentridge and Sabine Theunissen, costumes: Greta Goiris, lighting: Jennifer Tipton, video: Catherine Meyburgh. Participants: Groissböck, Pirgu, Roth, Shagimuratova, Kühmeier, Mikolaj, Grötzinger, Radner, Massaro, Caccamo, De Prez, Tynan, Esposito, Bronder, Sadnik, Lim. Orchestra and choir of the Teatro alla Scala, Milan. Choir director: Bruno Casoni. Musical director: Roland Böer) OPUS ARTE, DVD / Blu-ray (OA 1066 D)
Web links
- Roland Böer at Discogs (English)
- Official website of Roland Böer
- Website of the Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte di Montepulciano festival
- Roland Böer on the website of the agency KKManagement
- Roland Böer on Opera Base
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Böer, Roland |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Homburg vor der Höhe |