Wilhelm Keitel (conductor)
Wilhelm Keitel (born February 2, 1951 in Schwäbisch Hall ) is a German conductor .
Life
Wilhelm Keitel received his training from Wolfgang Trommer and Charles Mackerras in Vienna, and from Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa in Tanglewood and New York . From 1980 to 1984 Keitel was the musical director of the Württemberg State Theater in Esslingen . In 1984 he received a scholarship from the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg and was assistant to Christoph Eschenbach at the Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich . In 1986 an assistant to Zoltán Peskó at the Opéra National de Paris followed . From 1985 to 1987 Keitel worked as a dramaturge and conductor at the Stadttheater Würzburg . In 1989 he founded the Rossini Festival in Wildbad .
In June 1987, he conducted Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice in Stuttgart in April 1997 at the Opera House of Manaus Carmen and La traviata . Various radio and television recordings followed for SWR , SDR , NDR , RAI , BBC , Norwegian Broadcasting and ORF .
In 1994 Wilhelm Keitel founded the Minsk Orchestra, with which he produced numerous CDs and made several European tours. He has been the owner of his own label since 2003, in which he published Rossini's Tancredi with Altus Matthias Rexroth in the title role.
Wilhelm Keitel has been cooperating with the Bolshoi Opera Minsk since 2000. In 2007/2008 Wilhelm Keitel was artistic director of the Monschau Klassik festival. The first collaboration with the Belarusian Radio and TV Symphony Orchestra (RSO Minsk) came about on Franz Liszt's birthday in October 2011 with his Faust Symphony and in February 2012 with the Fourth Symphony by Johannes Brahms. After this concert, the orchestra appointed Wilhelm Keitel as its chief conductor. As a pianist, Wilhelm Keitel made his first appearance in 2012 at the festival in Alamos / Mexico. He accompanied the Bayreuth singer Christian Tschelebiew on Schubert's winter trip .
Publications (selection)
- Gioachino Rossini . Together with Dominik Neuner . Albrecht Knaus, Munich 1992 ISBN 3-8135-0364-X
Web links
- Homepage of Wilhelm Keitel
- Keitel in the archive of the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Keitel in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Keitel and Dominik Neuner: Gioachino Rossini . Albrecht Knaus, Munich 1992, 3rd cover page.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Keitel, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwäbisch Hall |