Patrik Ringborg

Patrik Ringborg (born November 1, 1965 in Stockholm) is a Swedish conductor.

Career

As a student Ringborg attended the Adolf Fredrik's Music School in Stockholm.[1] After studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and with Kurt Bendix, Ringborg was a répétiteur at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm from 1989 to 1993, also assisting the Music Director and conducting performances in the Royal Opera House. He also assisted the Music Directors at the Semperoper in Dresden (1988) and at the Canadian Opera Company (1992).

From 1993 to 1999, Ringborg worked as staff conductor with the Freiburg Opera, where his position in 1997 was elevated to Deputy Music Director. From 1997 to 2003, he conducted at the Aalto Theatre in Essen, where in 1999 he was appointed Principal Conductor. After Ringborg's first year in Essen, critics named him the "season's best conductor" together with John Fiore and Essen's music director Stefan Soltesz.[2] Ringborg made his debut at the Gothenburg Opera in 1998 with Tannhäuser, and later was named its Principal Guest Conductor. There he also conducted the much acclaimed world premiere of Notorious by Hans Gefors in 2015. He also was the Artistic Director of the German Kurt Weill Festival 2000.

Until July 2007, Ringborg was chief conductor with the Freiburg Opera. With the 2007/2008 season, Ringborg became music director at the Staatstheater Kassel, where he also is the artistic director of the "Mahler-Festtage" (celebrated every second year in honour of the late Music Director in Kassel, Gustav Mahler). In June 2010 his contract was renewed until 2017.

Ringborg led the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony 2008, the last opera performances of Dame Kiri Te Kanawa in Cologne (Der Rosenkavalier, 2010), and conducted Elektra with the Stockholm Royal Opera at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in 2010.

As first conductor ever, Patrik Ringborg was awarded the Opera Prize, founded by renowned Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet for the Swedish productions of Das Rheingold and Parsifal.

Selected opera productions

Selected recordings

References

  1. ↑ Bo Löfvendahl (18 August 2014). "Detaljerna är lite av min specialitet" (in Swedish). Svenska Dagbladet (Swedish daily newspaper). Retrieved 2015-04-27.
  2. ↑ Neues Rheinland, August 2000

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Preceded by
Roberto Paternostro		 Generalmusikdirektor, Staatstheater Kassel
2007–present 		Succeeded by
incumbent
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