Patrick Lange - Conductor
Biography
Born in 1981 near Nuremberg, Patrick Lange, since 2008/09 the conductor of the Comic Opera 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 and most recently, he conducted a concert tour with the Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields.
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. Since 2010, he is the Principal Conductor there and conducted a wide range of new productions and repertoire; he opened the season 2010/11 with a new production of “Meistersinger aus Nürnberg”. In October 2009 he debuted with great success with “Così fan tutte” with Glyndebourne on Tour. In 2010, he made his debut at the Vienna State Opera with “Madame Butterfly”, “Don Giovanni” and “Fledermaus”. At Covent Garden London, he conducted successfully the revival of “La Traviata”.
Among the performances on his appointment calendar for the 2011/2012 season are a new production of “Freischütz” and the revivals of “Idomeneo” and “Meistersinger” at the Komische Oper Berlin. At the Vienna State Opera, he will be conducting “Don Giovanni”, “Cosi fan tutte” and “Ariadne auf Naxos” (guest performance in Garmisch). Also planned is his debut at the Bavarian State Opera Munich with “Entführung aus dem Serail”; at the Hamburg Opera with “La Traviata“ as well as Jenufa”, “Entführung aus dem Serail” and “Faust” at Opernhaus Zürich.
In concert, he will conduct the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra and the Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna.
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