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Romely Pfund (born October 21, 1955 in Dresden ) is a German conductor .

Life

Romely Pfund was born into a family of artists. The mother, Ingeborg Pfund-Kassner, was a solo dancer and most recently a ballet master at the Dresden State Operetta . The father, Max Pfund, was a violinist in the Pirna Cultural Orchestra . The maternal grandfather, Ernst Kassner, also gave concerts as a violinist and orchestra conductor. His wife Lissa Kassner performed as a pianist and later as a solo entertainer. Romely Pfund spent childhood and youth in Dresden's Neustadt district.

After studying conducting at the Dresden University of Music with Rudolf Neuhaus , she went to the Altmark Theater in Stendal as Kapellmeister in 1979 and to the Anhalt Philharmonic in Dessau in 1983 as Kapellmeister . From 1977 to 1986 she took part in masterclasses with, among others, Kurt Masur , Igor Markevitch , Péter Eötvös and the conducting course in Tanglewood / USA with Leonard Bernstein , Seiji Ozawa and Gennadi Roshdestwenski .

She received her first executive position in 1987 as General Music Director (GMD) of the Neubrandenburg Philharmonic . Further engagements followed from 1998 to 2009 as GMD of the Bergische Symphoniker and since 2009 at the State Theater Mecklenburg in Neustrelitz. In the 1990s she was the only woman to head a professional orchestra in Germany. In 1999 she founded the Academy of the Bergische Symphoniker with orchestral musicians and became a mentor of the conductor funding project of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. In November 2004 she conducted the concert on the occasion of Queen Elisabeth II's state visit to Düsseldorf.

Romely Pfund conducted a. a. the Boston Symphony Orchestra , the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig , the orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin , the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker , the Rundfunkorchester Berlin , Leipzig and Prague.

As a concert conductor, she has classic and romantic standard works in her repertoire. She also ventured into unknown territory at jazz concerts with Albert Mangelsdorff , Rolf Kühn , with Peter Herbolzheimer and the Federal Jazz Orchestra or with Markus Stockhausen and his band. In the dance theater she conducted the ballet evening Petruschka / Sacre at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein (choreography Youri Vámos ), The Story of the Soldier / Carmina Burana (choreography Ralf Rossa) at the Opera House Halle / Saale , The Seven Deadly Sins with Gregor Seyffert and Le sacre du printemps with the Preljocaj ensemble from Aix en Provence. Romely Pfund worked with Christian Tetzlaff , Frank Peter Zimmermann , Lars Vogt , René Pape , Gerhard Zeppenfeld, Simone Kermes and Peter Schreier .

Since 2000 she has increasingly turned to music theater. As GMD of the Bergische Symphoniker she cooperated with the Wuppertal Opera House , with the Aaltotheater Essen and with the Cologne University of Music and Dance in cooperation with the director Igor Folwill. From 2009 to 2013 she was the opera director and musical director at the Landestheater Mecklenburg. She has been teaching at the Lübeck University of Music since 2013 . Since 2016 she has also worked as a conductor and choir director at the Eutin Festival .

Awards

literature

  • Elke Mascha Blankenburg: Female conductors in the 20th century , Europäische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg, p. 184 ff.
  • Ute Büchter-Römer: Top careers of women in music , Ricordi, Munich 2011, p. 81 ff.
  • Michele Edwards: Women on the Podium , In: José Antonio Bowen (Ed.): The Cambridge companion to Conducting , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2003, pp. 231 f.
  • Helen Epstein: Musictalks , Penguin, New York 1987, p. 36 ff

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography on: Lübeck University of Music
  2. ^ Romely books on: Eutin Festival
  3. ^ Alumni at: German Study Center in Venice
personal data
SURNAME Pound, Romely
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden , GDR