Sascha Goetzel

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Sascha Goetzel

Sascha Goetzel (official spelling: Götzel , * 1970 in Vienna ) is an Austrian conductor , violinist and arranger .

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After studying violin at the Graz University of Music, he studied at the Juilliard School in New York and was invited by Seiji Ozawa to the Tanglewood Music Festival as a fellowship conductor . An engagement as a substitute made him a long-term freelance member of the Vienna Philharmonic . He also received lessons from conductors such as Zubin Mehta , Seiji Ozawa and Riccardo Muti . He was a master student of Jorma Panula at the Sibelius Academy in Finland .

Since the beginning of his career, he has developed an extraordinary reputation worldwide as an orchestra director and developer, with great commitment in the evolution of traditional sound culture and dynamic programming.

Since 2008 he has been chief conductor of the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra , which he has shaped into a globally recognized orchestra through internationally extraordinary projects, CD recordings and numerous tours. He led the orchestra to appearances at the Salzburg Festival , the BBC Proms , the Hong Kong Arts Festival, the Teatre des Champs-Elysees , the Royal Concertgebouw as well as the Wiener Musikverein and Wiener Konzerthaus .

Since the 2019-2020 season, Sascha Goetzel has also held the post of Principal Guest Conductor with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, with the realization and recording of all of Gustav Mahler's symphonies .

Since 2014 he has been artistic director of the Music For Peace Foundation in Istanbul (Baris Icin Muzik), a sister organization of the international El Sistema project, and since 2018 Principle Conductor of the Kirishima International Music Festival in Japan.

Further positions in his career were: 2007 to 2013 Principle Conductor of the Kuopio Symphony in Finland; 2012 to 2015 first guest conductor of the Orchester Symphonique de Bretagne ; 2013 to 2017 Principal Guest Conductor of the Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra; Resident Conductor of the Pacific Music Festival in Japan.

Since the beginning of the millennium he has worked regularly as a guest conductor with international orchestras: Mariinsky Orchester, Orchester National de France , NHK Symphony Orchestra , Israel Philharmonic Orchestra , Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra , London Philharmonic Orchestra , Royal Philharmonic Orchestra , Birmingham Symphony Orchestra , RSO -Wien , Orchester National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Orchester national des Pays de la Loire, Kioi-Chamber Orchester, Kyoto Symphonie Orchester, Munich Symphony Orchestra , Vancouver Symphony , Shanghai Symphony Orchestra , Berlin Symphony Orchestra , Orchester Fondazione Petruzzelli, Orchester de Chamber de Paris, as well as the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover.

Among the international soloists he has collaborated with are Maxim Vengerov , Murray Perahia , Rudolf Buchbinder , Yuja Wang , Vadim Repin , Daniel Hope , Hillary Hahn and Branford Marsalis .

His debut as an opera conductor at the Vienna State Opera of “ Le nozze di Figaro ” in 2014 received high praise from the international trade press with immediate re-invitations for various opera productions: Der Rosenkavalier ; Don Giovanni ; Le nozze di Figaro; La Boheme ; Rigoletto ; The magic flute and the bat . Further opera directors have taken him to the Opera Anger-Nantes, the Tiroler Landestheater , the Opera de Montpelier , the Opera de Rennes, the Wiener Volksoper and the Tokyo Nikkikai Opera Company in Tokyo Bunka Kaikan and the Zürcher Oper (January 2020). Among the numerous singers he has worked with are Renée Fleming , Roberto Alagna , Michael Schade and Juan Diego Florez , as well as Thomas Hampson , Bryn Terfel , Piotr Beczala , Bo Skovhus and Ian Bostridge .

In addition to working regularly with various youth orchestras, Goetzel is convinced of the importance of art and music education and builds bridges for a mutual multicultural understanding of ethics, diversity, hybridity and diversity. As a conductor and artistic director, he actively supports international cultural exchange and educational projects such as "Music for Peace" and El Sistema, SEYO and a European Union project in Canada with a tour of EUYO & NYO-Can.

Goetzel and the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic have released internationally award-winning albums on the Deutsche Grammophon and Onyx labels: Baïka (2018), Turnage & Berlioz (2018), Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto Rococo Variations (2017), Carmen (2016), Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade (2014), Music from the Machine Age (2012) and Sascha Goetzel conduct Respighi, Hindemith & Schmitt (2010).

Awards

Goetzel received the international Rotary Scholarship Prize and a Conducting Fellowship Award at the Tanglewood Music Festival .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sascha Goetzel Artistic Director & Principal Conductor Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra , on borusansanat.com, accessed on December 1, 2019
  2. ↑ Barış için yeni Müzik'te dönem. Şef Sascha Goetzel Barış için Müzik Vakfı'nın sanat yönetmenliğini üstlendi , on barisicinmuzik.org, accessed on December 1, 2019
  3. ↑ Hakutulokset sanalle "goetzel" , on kuopionkaupunginorkesteri.fi, accessed on December 1, 2019
  4. ↑ Conductor Sascha Goetzel Resigns As First Guest Conductor Of The Orchester Symphonique de Bretagne , on pizzicato.lu, accessed on December 1, 2019
  5. ↑ SEYO18 Press Release , from www.sistemaeurope.org, accessed December 1, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Goetzel, Sascha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Götzel, Sascha (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria