Peter Ruzicka - NEOS Music

Composer

Biography:

Peter Ruzicka was born in Dusseldorf in 1948. After instrumental and theoretical training at the Hamburg Conservatory (piano, oboe, theory of composition), composition studies with Hans Werner Henze and Hans Otte followed. He studied law and musicology in Munich, Hamburg and Berlin and received his doctorate in 1977 with an interdisciplinary dissertation on »perpetual moral rights«. He has received numerous prizes and awards for his compositions (including the UNESCO prize »International Rostrum of Composers«, Paris and Louis Spohr Music Prize). Peter Ruzicka's works have been performed by leading orchestras and ensembles, including the Berlin Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Dresden, Munich Philharmonic, Bamberg Symphony, Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Philharmonia Orchestra London, Orchester Philharmonique de Paris, Czech Philharmonic, RSO Vienna, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Orchestra and all German radio orchestras. Conductors such as Gerd Albrecht, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Semyon Bychkov, Riccardo Chailly, Christoph Eschenbach, Michael Gielen, Eliahu Inbal, Mariss Jansons, Kurt Masur, Antonio Pappano, Giuseppe Sinopoli and Christian Thielemann have championed his music. The recording of his string quartets with the Minguet Quartet received the ECHO Klassik 2010.

Peter Ruzicka has been a professor at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater since 1990. He is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and the Free Academy of Arts in Hamburg. 1979-1987 he was Artistic Director of the RSO Berlin, 1988-1997 Artistic Director of the Hamburg State Opera and the Hamburg Philharmonic. In 1996 he succeeded Hans Werner Henze as artistic director of the Munich Biennale, which he still holds today; In 1997 he became Artistic Advisor to the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam. In 1999 he was appointed President of the Bavarian Theater Academy. From 2001 to 2006 he was artistic director of the Salzburg Festival. In 2015 he took over as managing director of the Salzburg Easter Festival. As a conductor, Peter Ruzicka led numerous important orchestras: DSO Berlin, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, NDR Symphony Orchestra, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, RSO Stuttgart, SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig MDR Symphony Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Munich Chamber Orchestra, German Chamber Philharmonic, Danish National Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, RSO Vienna, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Gulbenkian Orchestra Lisbon, China Philharmonic Orchestra and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra Tokyo.

www.peter-ruzicka.de

Albums:

Orchestra Works ∙ Vol. 4: