Roland Mell
Roland Mell (born June 3, 1954 in Berlin ) is a German composer, conductor and pianist. Since 1994 he has been artistic director of the Berlin Chamber Orchestra , founded by Hans von Benda in 1943 , which existed in this form until 1973 and was re-established by Mell in 1994. Since 2010 he has also been the artistic director of the newly founded Symphonic Concert Orchestra Berlin .
Life
After graduating from high school in 1973 at the Evangelical High School in the Gray Monastery , Mell studied Slavic Studies, Musicology, Church Music, German Studies and School Music at the University of the Arts and received composition lessons from Heinrich Poos . This was followed by an assistant at the Deutsche Oper Berlin with Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and first experiences with the music theater at the Stadttheater Gießen with his own incidental music to Colombe by Jean Anouilh .
Artistic work
After completing school service as a teacher for German and music in 1992 at his own request, he worked as a lecturer in conducting at the Federal Academy for Young Musical Education in Trossingen and as a juror in the youth music and German orchestra competitions .
From 1992 to 2012 he worked as a pianist, composer and musical director at the Berlin cabaret theater Die Stachelschweine .
Activities as a guest conductor have taken him to other European countries as well as to Lebanon and Turkey. He performed the symphonic choir oratorio La vita nuova by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari in the Berlin Cathedral and Chorin Monastery with the Camerata Instrumentale Berlin . In 1997 there followed Berlin premieres of Triptychon by Nikolai Badinski , Divertimento by Werner Thärichen and Concertino for clarinet and orchestra by Klaus Wüsthoff . In the Leipzig Gewandhaus he conducted the world premieres of the Concert for Domra and Orchestra by Anatoly Kusiakov and The Crazy Orchestra Concert by Ines Mainz with the Westsächsisches Symphonieorchester . There he also performed the cuddly toy concert by Klaus Wüsthoff several times . From 2005 to 2011 he conducted the musical laser show Flames of Classic (50 performances) with the North Bohemian Philharmonic Teplice and in 2012 the concert Feuerblumen and Klassik Open Air in Britzer Garten .
On tours in Germany in 2002 he performed 20 concerts with the singer Barbara Thalheim under the motto to be German and in 2009 he performed The Magic Flute 30 times.
In cooperation with the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation , he has been presenting the winter concert concerts every year since 1993 with members of the Berlin Chamber Orchestra and the serenade concerts in Charlottenburg Palace in summer .
Catalog raisonné
- Cuevas de Campanet - Suite about the caves near Campanet, Mallorca, first performance 1990
- rondo incredibile, world premiere in 1991 with the AKKORDIA 1935 in the SFB
- ... senza parole for solo accordion and accordion orchestra, world premiere in 1992
- cantare for vocal virtuosos, keyboard and chamber orchestra, world premiere in 1995 with David Moss
- city-music for three wind instruments, string orchestra and radio, world premiere in 1996 in the chamber music hall of the Berlin Philharmonic
- Concert for alto saxophone and orchestra, world premiere in 1997 in Amsterdam with the Berliner Sinfoniker, conducted by Alun Francis
- Airlift concert flies, fly - day and night, premiered in 1999 with the mezzo-soprano Carolin Masur in Tempelhof Airport
- Threnus II - September 11th. For the victims of the terrorist attack on the New York World Trade Center, premiered in 2002 in the Berlin Konzerthaus
Awards
- 1997: 1st prize from the Paul Woitschach Foundation in the composition competition Popular Symphony for his concert for alto saxophone and orchestra
Discography
Several CD productions were made with Mell as composer, arranger and studio musician, for example, in collaboration with the Berlin Chamber Orchestra, recordings with the oboist Albrecht Mayer and, most recently, music in Prussia with works by Giovanni Battista Bononcini , Frederick the Great , Luigi Boccherini and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Otto Nicolai .
Web links
- Berlin Chamber Orchestra
- With baton and accordion
- Flames of Classic
- School concert - cuddly toy concert
- Fire flowers and classic open air
- Mozart Spectacular - The Magic Flute
- Convertible concerts at Charlottenburg Palace
- Portrait at the concert bureau Klaus Richter
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mell, Roland |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer, conductor and pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |