Stefan Anton Reck

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Stefan Anton Reck (born April 26, 1960 in Baden-Baden ) is a German conductor and painter .

Career

After graduating from the “Richard-Wagner-Gymnasium” in Baden-Baden, he studied piano at the University of Music and at the same time philosophy and art history at the University of Freiburg. He continued his studies in Berlin and graduated from the Hochschule der Künste in 1986. In the meantime he had won the international conducting competition “Arturo Toscanini” in Italy in 1985 and shortly afterwards first prize at the international conducting competition "Gino Marinuzzi".

At the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. Alban Berg: Lulu, 2004–2005

In 1987 and 1990 he attended the master class of Seiji Ozawa and Leonard Bernstein at the Tanglewood Music Festival . In the 1990s, Reck led the “Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo ” and the “Orchestra Regionale del Lazio” in Rome for four years each . From 1997 to 2000 Reck was assistant to Maestro Claudio Abbado for the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra . During these years Reck has conducted several concerts with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, such as Gustav Mahler's 7th Symphony in Havana, as well as the summer tours in 2000 with Bartók's The Wonderful Mandarin and Gustav Mahler's Adagio from the 10th Symphony. Also assisted in these years Reck Maestro Pierre Boulez in numerous productions such as notation, Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps, Varèse Amérique, etc. In 1998, stretching the new production of Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, in the same year he made his debut in Verdi's Falstaff , in a production with Claudio Abbado and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in Ferrara.

In 2000 he was elected chief conductor of the Teatro Massimo di Palermo , which was reopened in 1997 after 23 years after efforts by the opponent of the Mafia and then mayor Leoluca Orlando . In 2001 he directed and produced a “highly respectable”, “impressive” performance of Alban Berg's opera Lulu . The singers' clearly understandable diction and the extraordinary transparency and expressiveness of the orchestral sound were particularly praised.

Further highlights of his career were: Arnold Schönberg : Moses and Aaron, The expectation; Arthur Honegger , Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher; the gala concert for the five-year reopening of the historic theater, entitled La Memoria dell'Offesa. Dedicato alle vittime dell'Olocausto e di tutte le violenze - on the program. The Kaiser von Atlantis by Viktor Ullmann and A Survivor from Warsaw by Arnold Schönberg, with Harvey Keitel as speaker.

Reck is active as a guest conductor at the leading opera houses and concert halls around the world: Bavarian State Opera Munich , Alban Berg Lulu (3-act version) and Bellini Norma ; Semperoper Dresden European premiere Dead Man Walking by Jake Heggie and Verdi Aida ; Oper Leipzig, Weber Der Freischütz , Oper Frankfurt , Verdi Don Carlo , Gran Teatro La Fenice , Richard Strauss Daphne (as CD and DVD as live recording on Dynamic), Teatro Regio di Torino Wagner Tristan and Isolde , Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro , Teatro Comunale di Bologna Wagner Tannhäuser , Los Angeles Opera Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro , New National Theater Tokyo Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg , Alban Berg Lulu .

Numerous concerts with orchestras such as: Orchester National de France Paris, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino, Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra , Orchester National de France Montpellier, Royal Scottish National Orchestra (Edinburgh Festival), NHK -Sinfonieorchester , Gustav Mahler Chamber Orchestra . In October 2011 Reck completes another new production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen with Götterdämmerung at the newly opened Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari. As a connoisseur of the music of Gustav Mahler and the Second Viennese School (Arnold Schönberg, Alban Berg, Anton Webern), Reck is in demand worldwide as a conductor for concerts as well as operas.

His latest successes include the productions of The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner signed by Yannis Kokkos at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and A Florentine Tragedy by Alexander Zemlinsky at the Teatro Regio in Turin. For 2015, Reck is invited by the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI in Turin (RAI under NuovaMusica) to conduct a concert in honor of the 90th birthday of Pierre Boulez, in which, among other things, Livre pour Cordes and Notations n. 1, 2, 3 , 4, and 7 are on the program.

Stefan Anton Reck dedicated his painting cycle 12 Notations to the composer Pierre Boulez. Stefan Anton Reck is internationally known as an expert on the music of Gustav Mahler and the Second Viennese School (Berg, Schönberg, Webern). His choice of repertoire reveals his musical intensity, eccentricity and strong preference for contemporary music.

A preference that is also evident in his broad painterly oeuvre, a gesture in a language that is heavily borrowed from music, which is condensed into symbols and colors to structures and rhythms of rapid perception.

Only recently has he started to present exhibitions of his painting in addition to his activity as a conductor, which can be seen in the major galleries and museums in Italy and internationally.

A selection of his works will be exhibited for the first time in Italy in a personal exhibition at the PAN Palazzo delle Arti in Naples from September 18 to October 19, 2014.

Discography

Web links

Commons : Stefan Anton Reck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 245, October 24, 2001, Lulu CD
  2. ↑ FAZ No. 261, November 9, 2001, Lulu CD
  3. ↑ http://www.comune.napoli.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/25110
personal data
SURNAME Horizontal bar, Stefan Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden-Baden