Biographies of artists 2009
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The director Beate Baron was born in Bielefeld, and studied directing in Hamburg and Berlin. While still studying she began to work as a video artist, producing a variety of video compositions ...
Sven-Eric Bechtolf was born in Darmstadt and trained at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. The actor has worked in such reputable theatres as the Schauspielhaus in Zurich, the Schauspielhaus ...
The Idée-Fixe string quartet was founded in 2006 by four students of the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp. Nevertheless the fairly young age of the quartet, it already gave numerous ...
Since the age of 14 Elko Blijweert has been active in several bands. He has collaborated with Rudy Trouvé since 1991 for, among others, the bands Dead Man Ray, Rudy Trouvé Septet, ...
The orchestra was founded in 1919 and during the course of its history has developed into one of the most important concert orchestras in West Germany. Since 1994 Steven Sloane has ...
The concert and opera conductor Michael Boder studied at the Hamburg Musikhochschule and in Florence. In 1989, not yet 30, he was appointed musical director at Oper Basel. He has ...
Carla Bozulich, singer, sound artist, painter and author, was born in New York City. She spent her formative years in San Pedro, California, where she came into contact with the punk ...
Gunnar Brandt-Sigurdsson completed a professional training as voice and breath therapist in 1994 and as a recording technician in 1996. He studied from 1996-2001 with Professor Maria ...
The theatre and opera director Andrea Breth comes from near Füssen and studied literature at the University of Heidelberg. She has directed productions for numerous theatres including ...
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Since its foundation in 1999, Chorwerk Ruhr has gathered a pool of around 180 singers and together they have created 45 projects, resulting in more than 100 concerts and performances. ...
Born in Paris, Clavel studied at the École Nissim de Camondo and is a costume designer for both theatre and film. She is a long-term collaborator of Andrea Breth’s and designed numerous ...
Edith Clever was born in Wuppertal and trained as an actor at the Otto-Falckenberg-Schule in Munich. In 1971 she went to the Berliner Schaubühne and alongside Jutta Lampe became one ...
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Willy Decker studied philosophy, theatre, music and singing in his hometown of Cologne. He started out as assistant director in Essen and at Cologne Opera, where he soon became artistic ...
Dale Duesing studied at the Lawrence Conservatory of Music. He has given guest performances at, amongst others, the Metropolitan Opera in New York as well as opera houses in San Francisco, ...
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Dominique Fabrègue choose to work in the theatre costume area. With Geneviève Sevin Doering, she learnt the method of a one piece cut. In 1982, she entered the dance universe with ...
Marianne Faithfull was born in Hampstead, London.The world-famous singer and performer had her first singing success with As Tears Go By, written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, ...
While studying at the Reykjavik College, Tanja Marin followed a professional dance education at the Icelandic School of Dance. After working one year as a trainee with the Iceland Dance ...
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A musicology graduate from the University of Utrecht, mezzo-soprano Elsbeth Gerritsen trained as a singer with Margreet Honig at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. Elsbeth Gerritsen is ...
Massimo Giordano studied flute and graduated from the G. Tartini Conservatory of Trieste. Then he devoted to study singing with soprano Cecilia Fusco. He was finalist in several important ...
Mezzo-soprano Karolina Gumos was born in Gdynia, Poland and studied Song in Poznán and Berlin. Whilst still studying, she was engaged as a soloist in the opera ensemble of the Dortmund ...
As a freelance set and costume designer, Walter Gussmann works predominantly with directors Willy Decker and Andreas Homoki. He has designed for numerous theatres including the state ...
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Norman Hacker was born in Enns, Austria. He trained at the Franz Schubert Konservatorium in Vienna from 1982 to 1984 and whilst still studying accepted an engagement at the Ensembletheater ...
The Franco-German director has created productions for the Opera Bonn, at the Luzerner Theater, Oldenburgische Staatstheater, Theater Heidelberg and Theater Basel. At the Opera Frankfurt ...
The set and costume designer Christof Hetzer studied at the Akademie der Bildende Künste in Vienna. Since 2001 he has worked as a freelance set and costume designer at a wide variety ...
For the Austrian composer and conducting professor Rupert Huber, song is the most direct form of musical expression. Although he has worked with many of the most important orchestras ...
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Kaoli Isshiki studied at the Institute of the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. After being awarded the 2nd opera prize in the Paris International Singing Competition ...
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The poet Ernst Jandl was born on 1st August 1925 in Vienna. After being freed from an American prisoner of war camp, Jandl studied German and English Literature and attained his doctorate ...
The freelance stage and costume designer, Justyna Jaszczuk, was born in Gdansk and studied at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee and the Universität der Künste Berlin. She has ...
Josef Joffe grew up in Berlin and studied Politics, Economics and Philosophy in America and Europe. He received his Ph.D from Harvard University. He has been publisher of Die Zeit ...
The actor André Jung was born in Luxemburg and attended the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart from 1973 to 1976. From 1976 onwards he was engaged ...
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Henry Kelder works as a pianist, conductor, musical leader, composer and chamber musician. Apart from that, he works as a teacher at the Koninklijk Conservatorium (Royal Academy of ...
Singer Tine Kindermann was born in Berlin and lives and works in New York. Her work looks at the reception of Grimm’s Fairytales. In 2001 she appeared – in collaboration with ...
Wolfram Koch trained at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt and began his theatrical career as soon as he had completed his training. The various stations ...
Dimitrios Dorian Kokiousis is an autodidact multi-instrumentalist from Athens – Hellas. He took his first steps on the path of music in his teenage years, playing guitar and singing. ...
Stefan Kurt, actor, sound and structure collector, was born in Switzerland and trained as an actor at the Konservatorium für Musik und Theater in Bern. He was a fixed member of the ...
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Dutch baritone Arnout Lems received his master’s degree in 2002 from The Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where he studied with Sasja Hunnego, Diane Forlano and Christina Deutekom. ...
Dawid Lorenc followed a dance theatre education in his home country Poland. One of the techniques he studied was dancing with fire. In 2006 he came to Brussels to study at P.A.R.T.S. ...
Being mainly a dancer/actor, Sam Louwyck has been active in a broad range of performance art. As a dancer he has been working with successful choreographers like Maurice Béjart, Mark ...
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At the age of 16 Olivier Mathieu started expressing himself with his body by doing breakdance alone in his room after school. After he finished his business studies at INSEEC in Paris, ...
Máté Mészáros studied dance at the Hungarian Dance Academy in Budapest. During his studies he joined the Szeged Contemporary Dance Company, the lead contemporary dance ensemble ...
Wolfgang Michael was born in Heinsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia and trained as an actor at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen. His first theatre engagements led him to the Schauspiel ...
Born in Rimini in 1984 Fabio Mina started to play flute when he was young, he took the flute graduation in 2004 and since 2000 he has devoted himself to composition. During the conservatory ...
The choreographer Mathilde Monnier (France) has been Artistic Director of the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier since 1994, where she has created numerous productions, ...
Bénédicte Mottart is trained in contemporary dance and ballet. She studied at the London Contemporary Dance School and followed a vocational artistic training at Artendance in Belgium. ...
Annette Murschetz studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna, before going on to work at Schauspielhaus Graz, at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, the Berliner Ensemble, Thalia ...
Born in Judenburg, Austria, Muthspiel began learning the piano when he was 6 years old, followed by trombone lessons from the age of 11. Christian Muthspiel is internationally active ...
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The internationally successful soprano Anna Netrebko was born in Krasnodar, Russia. She studied singing at the St. Petersburg Conservatoire and achieved her first successes as a soloist ...
Sergej Newski was born in 1972 in Moscow. He completed his studies in music theory at the Music Academy of the national Tchaikovsky-Konservatorium and went on to study composition with ...
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A contemporary of Guillaume Dufay and Josquin des Prés, the Flemish composer, singer, cleric, treasurer and diplomat was one of the most important composers of the fifteenth-century ...
A native of Lisbon, Hugo Oliveira studied at Lisbon's Escola Superior de Música and later on at The Hague Royal Conservatory. Integrated in the Opera departments of both conservatories, ...
The Vienna-born, Austrian actress Elisabeth Orth trained at the Max-Reinhardt-Seminar and was awarded the titles Kammerschauspielerin and Bayerische Staatsschauspielerin. She has been ...
Playwright and lyricist Albert Ostermaier published his first poems in 1988. His first play, Zwischen zwei Feuern. Tollertopographie appeared in 1993. He was made author-in-residence ...
Amos Oz was born Amos Klausner in Jerusalem and grew up in an educated rightwing Zionist academic family. He entered a kibbutz at age twelve and here took on the name Oz (Hebrew for ...
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The Italian film director and poet was born in Bologna in 1922. He was dismissed from his teaching post when his homosexuality became general public knowledge. He left for Rome, working ...
Mauro Pawlowski starts his music career in the early nineties as a guest and studio musician for Belgian bands such as Leopold 3, X-Legged Sally, Transformer 2, Kiss My Jazz and Bedtime ...
Conductor, soloist, chamber musician and educationalist Christoph Poppen was born in Münster. In 1995 he was made conductor and artistic director of the Münchener Kammerorchester ...
Jan-Philipp Possmann, born in Frankfurt/Main, studied Theater- and Political-Sciences at Freie Universität Berlin. He worked as assistant director and assistant dramaturg at TAT, Frankfurt/Main, ...
Mirjam Pressler was born in Darmstadt and studied at the Akademie für Bildende Künste in Frankfurt and languages in Munich, and went to live for a year on a kibbutz in Israel. Back ...
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Ulrike Reinbott studied dance at the Folkwanghochschule in Essen and at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels. During her studies in Essen, she collaborated with the Algerian/French dancer and choreographer ...
Having trained as a psychologist (with a PHD in clinical psychology), then as a dancer, Olivier Renouf turned to sound creation by studying electroaccoustic music at the CNSM in Paris. ...
Marc Ribot, guitarist and composer, was born in Newark, New Jersey. As a teenager he started playing in various garage bands and studied under his mentor, the guitarist and composer ...
Born in Madrid, the artist Maria Ribot has become known for her widely acclaimed dance performances, under the name La Ribot (Spain/Switzerland). Ribot lived for several years in London ...
Yael Ronen, born in Jerusalem in 1976, is one of the most important and provocative theatre makers in Israel. She studied playwriting at the HB studio in New York, and directing at ...
Joseph Roth was born on the 2nd September 1894 near Lemberg (Lviv, Ukraine), which at that time was still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1914 he moved to Vienna and began a ...
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For the past thirty years, the Catalan viola virtuoso, conductor, educator, researcher and author has become expert in discovering unjustly neglected or forgotten musical treasures. ...
Swetlana Schönfeld completed her actor’s training at the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch in Berlin before going on to work at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater in Berlin, the Schaubühne ...
Johan Simons was born in Heerjansdam in the Netherlands. He studied dance at the Rotterdam Dance Acadamy before studying acting at the Academy for Theatre in Maastricht. He co-founded ...
The saxophone quartet in which Sleichim has played since 1988 is called ‘Bl!ndman’, a somewhat peculiar way of writing ‘Blindman’. When it comes to the plastic arts, Sleichim ...
Jeroen Stevens started playing music at the age of nine. He studied percussion at the Royal Conservatory in Antwerp. Since 2001 he has been a member of the rock band I love Sarah. Jeroen ...
Trumpeter and composer Markus Stockhausen was born in 1957 and for many years worked closely together with his father, the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, who wrote many works for him. ...
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Anne Tismer studied Law and Chinese Studies in Hamburg as well as Performance at the Max-Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. She works as a performance artist mainly in Brussels, Berlin and ...
After studying theater at the Université Paris V and painting at the Ecole nationale supérieure de Bruxelles, Annie Tolleter went on to design stage sets and stage spaces, both for ...
One of the most significant contemporary theatre companies in Europe, Toneelgroep Amsterdam is based at the Stadsschouwbourg Amsterdam, and consists of an ensemble of twenty-two actors. ...
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Bauwien van der Meer studied at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (Bachelor exam january 2004) as a student of Sasja Hunnego. June 2005 she concluded her Master's at the New Opera ...
Ivo van Hove began his career as a director in 1981 with productions of his own texts. In 1988 he started staging work at Het Zuidelijk Toneel in Eindhoven, and two years later was ...
Wim Vandekeybus is a director, choreographer, actor and photographer. After working for two years with Jan Fabre he formed his own company, Ultima Vez. He received the Bessie Award ...
Imre Vass studied dance at the Budapest Comprehensive Dance School in Hungary. During his studies he directed his own dance film called Das Andere and started to collaborate with Adrienn ...
The conductor Emmanuel Villaume was born in Straßburg and studied literature, philosophy and music at the Straßburg Conservatoire and in Paris. Villaume has conducted concerts in ...
VocaalLAB Nederland is an international studio and production house for singers and composers.It develops new vocal music in combination with theatre, dance, film, visual art and other ...
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Being mainly a dancer/actor, Sam Louwyck has been active in a broad range of performance art. As a dancer he has been working with successful choreographers like Maurice Béjart, Mark ...
Actor and director Martin Wuttke was born in Gelsenkirchen and trained at the Figurentheaterkolleg in Bochum as well as the Westfälischen Schauspielschule in Bochum. His career as ...
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