Cornelius Meister

Cornelius Meister (born 23 February 1980 in Hannover, Germany) is a German conductor and pianist. His father, Konrad Meister, is a pianist and professor of piano at the Musikhochschule Hannover. His mother is also a piano teacher. His half-brother, Rudolf Meister, is also a pianist and is Rector of the Musikhochschule Mannheim.

Meister studied piano and conducting at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover. Besides his father, his teachers in Hannover included Martin Brauss and Eiji Oue. Meister also studied music at the Salzburg Mozarteum, with such teachers as Dennis Russell Davies and Karl Kamper. He was a prize winner at the 1996 Southwest German Chamber Music Competition, a winner of the Radeberger Award and the Audience Award at the 1998 Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, and a recipient in 2000 of a prize from the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb.

From 2001 to 2002, Meister was an assistant conductor at the Theater Erfurt. He has also worked as a Kapellmeister at the Staatsoper Hannover. In September 2005, he became Generalmusikdirektor of Heidelberg, then the youngest general music director of Germany. In October 2008, he extended his Heidelberg contract through 2012,[1] at which time his Heidelberg tenure concluded. In September 2010, Meister became Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (Vienna RSO), with an initial contract of four years.[2] In February 2015, the orchestra announced the extension of his Vienna RSO contract through 2018.[3] With the Vienna RSO, he has commercially recorded music of Gottfried von Einem and of Béla Bartók.[4]

In September 2009, Meister made his US conducting debut with San Francisco Opera.[5] Meister continues to perform chamber music in a clarinet-piano duo with Clemens Trautmann.

Married since 2006, Meister and his wife have two sons.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Stephen Wolf (2008-10-09). "Jüngster GMD Deutschlands - Cornelius Meister verlängerte Vertrag in Heidelberg bis 2012". Neue Musikzeitung. Retrieved 2011-05-29.
  2. ↑ "Cornelius Meister zum neuen RSO Chefdirigenten ab September 2010 bestellt" (PDF) (Press release). Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. 9 January 2009. Retrieved 2011-05-29.
  3. ↑ "Dr. Christoph Becher neuer Intendant des ORF Radio-Symphonieorchesters Wien" (Press release). ORF (Austrian Radio). 11 February 2015. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
  4. ↑ Andrew Clements (2013-04-04). "Bartók: Kossuth; Concerto for Orchestra, etc – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
  5. ↑ Joshua Kosman (2009-09-25). "Opera review: The Abduction From the Seraglio". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2011-05-29.

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Preceded by
Volker Christ		 Generalmusikdirektor, Heidelberg Opera and Heidelberg Philharmonic Orchestra
2005-2012 		Succeeded by
Yordan Kamdzhalov
Preceded by
Bertrand de Billy		 Chief Conductor, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
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