Ulrich Windfuhr

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Ulrich Windfuhr (* 1960 in Heidelberg ) is a German conductor .

Life

Ulrich Windfuhr grew up as the son of Heine researcher and publisher Manfred Windfuhr, first in his hometown and later in Düsseldorf. From 1978 Ulrich Windfuhr studied orchestral conducting in Cologne, Vienna and Florence and also attended master classes with Franco Ferrara , Carlo Maria Giulini , Gennadi Roshdestvensky , Leonard Bernstein and Günter Ludwig . In 1985 Ulrich Windfuhr was a prizewinner at the Vittorio Gui International Conducting Competition and in 1986 at the Janos Ferencic International Conducting Competition in Budapest.

He received his first engagement in 1986 as a répétiteur with conducting duties at the Theater Dortmund , in 1989 he went to the Theater Augsburg as 2nd Kapellmeister and director of studies , in 1990 as 1st coordinated Kapellmeister at what was then the Opera House, now the State Theater in Nuremberg . In 1993 he received his engagement as 1st Kapellmeister at the Lower Saxony State Theater in Hanover . Two years later he was hired as first conductor and deputy general music director at the Badische Staatstheater Karlsruhe , again a year later he became acting general music director.

From 1998 to 2003 Windfuhr worked alongside artistic director Kirsten Harms as general music director of the stages of the state capital Kiel . With productions of Richard Strauss operas like Die Schweigsame Frau and Die Liebe der Danae , a cycle of Franz Schreker's operas and the Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner, he and the house attracted international attention.

From the beginning of his career, his concert activities have taken him through Europe (Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, Hungary) and the USA . As an opera conductor he has made guest appearances at renowned German theaters, including the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf-Duisburg, the Bonn Opera , the Mannheim National Theater and the Berlin Deutsche Oper .

At the Kiel Opera took Windfuhr for the label cpo among others flames , the game works and the Princess and Christopher or the vision of an opera ( Franz Schreker ) and Donna Diana of Emil von Reznicek on. In 2003 he received the Diapason d'Or and the Choc de la Musique as well as the quarterly award of the German record review for the CD Das Spielwerk und die Princess ; In 2005 the Orphée d'Or followed for the CD Die Liebe der Danae .

From 2007 to 2013 Windfuhr was Professor of Conducting at the University of Music and Theater in Leipzig , where Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla was one of his students. In 2013 he accepted the professorship for conducting and orchestral conducting at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater . In 2014 Windfuhr was named a member of the Free Academy of Arts in Hamburg .

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SURNAME Windfuhr, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg