Ingo Metzmacher studied piano, music theory and conducting in his hometown of Hanover as well as in Cologne and Salzburg.
This show is about the composer Friedrich Cerha. He died on February 14, 2023 at the age of 96. For decades he has played a key role in shaping the European new music scene. Ingo Metzmacher is very familiar with Cerha’s music. Among other things, he designed a big concert for Cerha’s 95th birthday at the Salzburg Festival in 2021. The program included the extensive cycle “Spiegel I to VII” – seven fascinating sound paintings for large orchestra.
radical approach
“It’s a huge design,” says Ingo Metzmacher about “Spiegel”. “And the interesting thing about the piece is that there are movements notated in the score. It’s about graphic movements that you see in the score and hopefully also hear. It’s a very radical approach.”
Born in Hanover, Ingo Metzmacher is an internationally sought-after conductor. He is the artistic director of the Herrenhausen Art Festival and was General Music Director at the Hamburg State Opera from 1997 to 2005, after which he directed the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam and the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Among other things, he caused a sensation with his concert series “Who is afraid of 20th Century Music” in Hamburg and with the book “Keine Angst vorneuen Melodien”. Friederike Westerhaus accompanies Ingo Metzmacher on his tour of discovery into the world of music of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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2023-06-05 23:41:21
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