Patrick Lange - Conductor
Biography
Born in 1981 near Nuremberg, Patrick Lange, per 2010/11 Principal Conductor of the Komische Oper Berlin, is a promising talent in the generation of young conductors. He began his musical career in the boys choir the Regensburg ‘Domspatzen’.
He studied at the conservatories of Wurzburg and Zurich, and in 2005 became a member in the Conductors Forum of the German Music Council. In the same year Claudio Abbado appointed him to be assistant conductor of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra. He gave concerts with them in Bozen in 2008. He also worked as Abbado’s assistant with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Mozart Orchestra of Bologna and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. In 2007 Patrick Lange received the European Culture Prize in the category of grants for young conductors. In 2009 he was the first recipient of the Eugen Jochum Scholarship of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Among the orchestras he has been engaged by for concerts are the Hamburg and the Bochum Symphonies, the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, the MDR-Symphony Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Sìmon Bolivar Youth Orchestra in Venezuela. In 2007 he gave concerts with the German Federal Youth Orchestra in Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt and Peking.
Among the places he has conducted opera are Wurzburg (Le Nozze di Figaro and Cendrillon), Zurich (L’ Enfant et les Sortilèges) and in Lucerne (Falstaff and Don Giovanni). In 2007 with Le Nozze di Figaro he gave his debut at the Komische Oper Berlin, where he conducted in order La Bohème, Die Zauberflöte, the premier of Frank Schwemmer’s Robin Hood as well as the new productions of The Queen of Spades and Der Vetter aus Dingsda. In October 2009 he debuted with great success with Così fan tutte with Glyndebourne on Tour.
Among the performances on his appointment calendar for the 2009/2010 season are a new production of Rigoletto and a revival of Die Fledermaus at the Komische Oper Berlin. Also planned are his debut at the Vienna State Opera (Madame Butterfly, Die Fledermaus and Don Giovanni), La Traviata at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden London, Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Canadian Opera in Toronto and Jenufa and Entführung aus dem Serail at Opernhaus Zürich.
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