Wolfgang Rögner

Wolfgang Rögner (* 1951 in Thuringia ) is a German conductor and artistic director .

Life

From 1970 to 1975 he studied conducting and piano at the Liszt School of Music Weimar and then became conductor at the theaters in Plauen and Zwickau . In 1980/81 he completed additional studies at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory with Arvid Jansons . From 1985 to 1989 he was chief conductor at the German-Sorbian People's Theater in Bautzen and in 1986 he also became First Principal Conductor at the Nederlands Dans Theater . Subsequently, since 1989 he was general music director at the Erfurt Theater and chief conductor of the Erfurt Philharmonic Orchestra for eleven years .

Orchestras such as the Staatskapelle Dresden , the Dresden Philharmonic , the Rundfunkorchester Frankfurt / M. and Leipzig , the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra , the Vilnius State Opera and the State Philharmonic of Athens and Mexico committed him to concerts, recordings and musical theater productions. Further guest appearances have taken him to France , Italy , Austria , Hungary , the Czech Republic , Portugal , Japan and Switzerland .

In January 2002 he became the artistic director and managing director of the Sorbian National Ensemble GmbH in joint production with the Liberec Theater . In May 2010 he was given leave of absence from this position and previously deposed as managing director of the GmbH, although his contract ran until 2012. The Foundation for the Sorbian People , as a shareholder and most important donor, decided to downsize the music theater and to cut 27 of its 107 positions. Rögner had said several times that with this decision, "there is no longer an ensemble I can work with".

From 2015 to August 2018 Wolfgang Rögner was chief conductor of the Leipzig Symphony Orchestra .

Recordings

• Klezmer chamber music : works by Reinhard Wolschina , Lucas Richman , Ora Bat Chaim and Ofer Ben-Amots , with Giora Feidman and the Leipzig Chamber Orchestra, Dortmund 1997
• Serbska sinfonika : Works by Jan Pawoł Nagel , Juro Mětšk , Liana Bertók and Ulrich Pogoda , Bautzen 2010
• Sinfoniske twórby : Symphonic works by Jan Pawoł Nagel, Sorbian National Ensemble, Bautzen 2002
• Percussion in Concert : Bamberger Sinfoniker with Peter Sadlo , works for marimba, vibraphone and orchestra, Universal Music Distribution 2004
• Classical masterpieces : Philharmonic Orchestra Erfurt live (1997) with Mozart , Haffner Symphony , Schubert , Great Symphony in C major , Erfurt 2005

Awards and honorary positions

• 1982 Diploma at the International Bela Bartok Seminar in Szombathely, Hungary
• 1983 Winner of the IV International Conducting Competition of the Hungarian Radio and Television
• 1984 diploma at the Interpodium Music Festival in Bratislava, Slovakia
• 1996 member of the Maria Callas Foundation Athens, Greece

literature

• Theater Erfurt 1991–2002 General Manager Dietrich Taube , Theater Erfurt, Erfurt 2002.
• Ensemble boss has to go - many questions remain , Sächsische Zeitung, September 17, 2010 ( online ).

Web links

• History of the Erfurt Theater