Marc Minkowski

Marc Minkowski (born with Paris the October 4th 1962, wire of Alexandre Minkowski) is a traditional musician and Leader French.

Biography

It begins its musical career like Bassoniste, at the same time in modern orchestras and formations baroques like Flourishing Arts, the Clemencic Consort of Vienna and the Royal Vault. It begins its career of leader in France then studies with Charles Bruck with the Pierre Monteux Memorial School of Hancock (Maine).

In 1982, it founds the Musicians of the Louvre, together which will be illustrated as well in the repertory French baroque ( Phaéton and Acis and Galatée of Lully, gallant Europe of Campra, Alcione of Marin Marais, the loves of Ragonde of Mouret, Titon & the Dawn of Mondonville, Platée , Hippolyte and Aricie , Anacréon , Dardanus and Boréades of Rameau, Armide , Orphée and Iphigénie in Tauride of Gluck etc) that at Monteverdi ( Orfeo in Nancy, the incoronazione di Poppea with Vienna and Aix-en-Provence), Haendel ( Ariodante , Giulio Cesare in Egitto , the resurrezione , of many concertos, motets and cantatas like several works recorded for the first time: It trionfo LED Tempo E del Disinganno , Amadigi , Teseo ) then Mozart or Offenbach. Installed with Grenoble since 1996, the Musicians of Louvre are associated there with the House of Culture MC2.

Quickly, the career with the opera of Marc Minkowski develops. Mozart holds a choice place to with it: Idomeneo in 1996 with the national Opera of Paris then in an outstanding production with the Opera of Flandres, Removal with the seraglio for its beginnings with the Festival of Salzburg, the Marriages of Figaro with the Festival of Aix-en-Provence, Baden-Baden and Tokyo, the Magic Flute with Montpellier, Bochum and in 2005 with the national Opera of Paris…

Popular works ( Carmen , the Bat , Didon and Énée , Manon , Tales of Hoffmann ) are neighborly with rarer treasures: the white Lady of Boïeldieu to the Op3era Comique, the black Domino of Auber to Fenice of Venice, Favorite the of Donizetti to Zurich, Robert the Devil of Meyerbeer in its new edition criticizes in Staatsoper of Berlin, Cendrillon of Massenet to the Opera of Flandres, a Offenbach cycle with Laurent Pelly in Paris, Lyon, Geneva and Lausanne, Pelléas and Mélisande of Debussy to Leipzig in scenic version then in concert for the centenary work in the Op3era Comique.

The symphonic repertory occupies a big part in its activity with the head of orchestras such as the Mahler Chamber Orchestrated, the Philharmonique of Berlin, the Orchestre of Paris, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Mozarteum de Salsbourg or the Staatskapelle of Dresden. It maintains in particular a close relationship with the Chamber Orchestrated off Europe, the Deutsches Symphony-Orchester Berlin, the Wiener Symphoniker and with the Cleveland Orchestra.

Marc Minkowski is knight of the Merit.

He carried out many recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, Erato and EMI Classics.

External bonds

Interview (in Spanish) on Meyerbeer (site Meyerbeer Fan Club)
Interview (in French) on Mozart (site Odb-opera)

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