杰勒德·科斯腾

G?RARD KORSTEN

Conductor

‘His unflashy, truth-seeking mission closely reflects the aims of the production, revealing a high level of textural detail and musical-emotional characterisation. No single phrase is simply allowed to slip by, yet the overall effect remains visceral.’

The Stage - Così fan tutte

Gérard Korsten is an increasingly familiar figure in the world’s concert halls and opera houses. He has been Principal Conductor in Uppsala and at the State Theatre in Pretoria, and was Music Director of the Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari from 1999 to 2005. A highly dynamic and articulate musician, he began his career as a violinist, and was for nine years concertmaster of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

His concert appearances have included engagements with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai Turin, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Mozart Players and Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic. Among his recordings are the Tchaikovsky Serenade and Souvenir de Florence with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe for DGG, Don Pasquale for TDK, and Die ?gyptische Helena, Euryanthe and Alfonso und Estrella for Dynamic.

Many of Gérard Korsten’s most notable recent engagements have been in European opera houses, including La Scala, Milan (Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro), Opéra national de Lyon (Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, Henze’s L’Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe and Wagner's Siegfried), the Royal Swedish Opera (Mozart’s Don Giovanni), English National Opera (Verdi’s Aida) and Glyndebourne Festival Opera (Britten’s Albert Herring).

In Cagliari he conducted the first Italian performances of Richard Strauss’s Die ?gyptische Helena, Weber’s Euryanthe, Delius’s A Village Romeo and Juliet and Schubert’s Alfonso und Estrella. He was also responsible for conducting much of the standard operatic repertoire, including Die Zauberfl?te, Don Giovanni, Lucia di Lammermoor, Carmen, Die Fledermaus, Tosca, A?da, The Barber of Seville and Don Pasquale.

Current and forthcoming engagements include Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Gewandhaus Orchestra, SWR Sinfonieorchester, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Mozart’s Cosí fan tutte (Netherlands Opera), Doninzetti’s La Fille du Regiment (Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi) and Verdi’s La Traviata (Opéra national de Lyon).

Gérard Korsten studied the violin with Ivan Galamian at the Curtis Institute in the USA and with Sándor Végh in Salzburg. He became Concertmaster and Assistant Musical Director of Camerata Salzburg, and in 1987 he was appointed Concertmaster of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. He left the COE in 1996 to concentrate on conducting.

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