Wolfram Christ (musician)
Wolfram Christ (born October 17, 1955 in Hachenburg in the Westerwald ) is a German violist and conductor .
Life
Christ began violin lessons at the age of six and switched to the viola at the age of twelve . At the age of 20 he was an ARD award winner in Munich . Herbert von Karajan engaged him in 1978 as the first solo violist for the Berliner Philharmoniker . Christ held this position until 1999. During this period of more than 20 years, Christ appeared in addition to his work in the orchestra as a soloist and in chamber music groups . Wolfram Christ has been Professor of Viola at the Freiburg University of Music since 1999 .
From 1995 to 2000 Christ was Artistic Director and Consultant at the Sydney Conservatory of Music in Australia .
From 2004 to 2008 Christ was chief conductor of the Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester in Mannheim . There he devoted himself particularly to the music of the Mannheim school . In 2005 the conductor Claudio Abbado appointed Wolfram Christ as artistic director of the “Accademia Gustav Mahler” in Ferrara and Potenza. Also at the invitation of Abbado, Christ is solo violist and founding member of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in Lucerne .
Christ has conducted the Royal Danish Orchestra, Copenhagen, the Durban Philharmonic Orchestra, the SWR Symphony Orchestra Kaiserslautern, the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Basel Chamber Orchestra, the German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken , the Mozart Orchestra, Bologna, the Rhenish Philharmonic , the South Westphalian Philharmonic , the Bavarian Chamber Orchestra, the Festival Strings Lucerne and the Camerata Madrid. He regularly conducts projects with the Simon Bolivar Orchestra in Caracas, Venezuela. Wolfram Christ has been the first guest conductor with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra since 2009 .
honors and awards
1992 received Christ the Grand Prix du Disque for his recording of the trio for flute , viola and harp by Claude Debussy in the Deutsche Grammophon .
He received the Grammy for his recording of Chamber Music No. 5 for viola and orchestra by Paul Hindemith with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Claudio Abbado.
literature
- Berliner Philharmoniker: Variations with Orchestra - 125 Years of the Berliner Philharmoniker , Volume 2, Biographies and Concerts, Verlag Henschel, May 2007, ISBN 978-3-89487-568-8
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Christ, Wolfram |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German violist and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th October 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hachenburg , Westerwald |