Frank Cramer | biography
Frank Cramer was born in Essen, Germany, were he studied
conducting at the Folkwang University of the Arts. He completed
his studies at the University for Music in Hamburg with Horst Stein.
After his first engagement at the State Theater in Oldenburg, he
performed at the Theatre of Würzburg in the position of the vize
principal conductor from 1980-88.
In result of his celebrated success with Verdis Aida in the Arena
Sferisterio di Macerata in 1989, Frank Cramer has been invited
to concert halls and opera houses throughout Europe, the USA,
Eastern Asia and South Africa. He conducted at the opera houses
of Zurich, Basel, Bern, Vienna (Volksoper), Hungarian State
Opera Budapest, German Opera on the Rhine Düsseldorf-
Duisburg, Darmstadt, Trieste and Pretoria. His broad repertoire
ranges from Mozarts’ Le Nozze di Figaro to Wagners’ Tristan
und Isolde and Strauss’ Salome to Bergs’ Wozzeck.
International critics characterize Frank Cramer as a conductor
who, in a very unique way, combines inspiration, intensity and
expression with naturalness and professional skill.
In concerts Frank Cramer favors the composers Beethoven,
Mozart, Mahler and particulary Bruckner. Further more he devoted
himself to non-main stream composers like the late romantics
Zemlinsky, Korngold, Stephan and Nielsen or composers like
Messiaen, Lutoslawski, Schönberg, Webern and Ives. His
immense concert repertoire results from his long term cooperation
with orchestras such as the RAI National Symphony Orchestra
Turin, the Orchestra della Toscana Florence, the Bern Symphony
Orchestra, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Basel, the Bamberg
Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the WDR
Cologne Radio Orchestra, the Real Symphony Orchestra of
Sevilla, the National Orchestra des Pays de la Loire, the
Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra
of Nice, the Orchestra of the Teatro Lirico di Caligari, the
Philharmonic Orchestra Budapest, the Hungarian National
Philharmony and the Korean Symphony Orchestra.
Frank Cramer has been invited to many Festivals such as the
Biennale Munich, the Budapest Spring Festival (Hungarian
National Philharmony), the Music Festival Mecklenburg-
Vorpommern and the renowned Tongyeong International
Music Festival in South-Korea. Numerous radio- and
television productions for the West German Radio, the
Bavarian Radio, the ZDF, the MDR Leipzig, the Swiss
Radio DRS and the Radiotelevisione Italiana (the RAI
National Symphony Orchestra Turin) show his artistic work.
For the CD Label Dacapo, Frank Cramer recorded the
complete symphonies of the Danish late-romantic composer
Ludolf Nielsen with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and
the Danish Philharmonic Orchestra. The CD label Marco Polo
published Louis Spohr’s Violin Concertos No. 3 and 9, which
Cramer recorded together with the Slowakian Radio Symphony
Orchestra and the violin soloist Christiane Edinger.
Frank Cramer resides in Munich and works as professor for
conducting at the University of Music Karlsruhe. www.hfm.eu
In 2008 he will give his debut at the Semperoper Dresden
conducting The Magic Flute. Frank Cramer will continue his
cooperations, amongst others, with the State Philharmonic
Orchestra on the Rhine and the Munich Radio Orchestra with
CD- recordings and concerts. In Italy Frank Cramer will conduct
the opening concert of the 'Festival Verona Sacra' with the
Orchestra and Chorus of the Arena di Verona in a program
with works of Pärt, Tutino, Resphigi and Britten.
In 2009 Frank Cramer will have, amongst others, his debut
with the Belgrad Philharmonic Orchestra and will start a new
cooperation with the CD Label CPO with works by the German
romantic composer Georg Schumann with the Munich Radio
Orchestra in a coproduction with the Bavarian Radio.
conducting at the Folkwang University of the Arts. He completed
his studies at the University for Music in Hamburg with Horst Stein.
After his first engagement at the State Theater in Oldenburg, he
performed at the Theatre of Würzburg in the position of the vize
principal conductor from 1980-88.
In result of his celebrated success with Verdis Aida in the Arena
Sferisterio di Macerata in 1989, Frank Cramer has been invited
to concert halls and opera houses throughout Europe, the USA,
Eastern Asia and South Africa. He conducted at the opera houses
of Zurich, Basel, Bern, Vienna (Volksoper), Hungarian State
Opera Budapest, German Opera on the Rhine Düsseldorf-
Duisburg, Darmstadt, Trieste and Pretoria. His broad repertoire
ranges from Mozarts’ Le Nozze di Figaro to Wagners’ Tristan
und Isolde and Strauss’ Salome to Bergs’ Wozzeck.
International critics characterize Frank Cramer as a conductor
who, in a very unique way, combines inspiration, intensity and
expression with naturalness and professional skill.
In concerts Frank Cramer favors the composers Beethoven,
Mozart, Mahler and particulary Bruckner. Further more he devoted
himself to non-main stream composers like the late romantics
Zemlinsky, Korngold, Stephan and Nielsen or composers like
Messiaen, Lutoslawski, Schönberg, Webern and Ives. His
immense concert repertoire results from his long term cooperation
with orchestras such as the RAI National Symphony Orchestra
Turin, the Orchestra della Toscana Florence, the Bern Symphony
Orchestra, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Basel, the Bamberg
Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the WDR
Cologne Radio Orchestra, the Real Symphony Orchestra of
Sevilla, the National Orchestra des Pays de la Loire, the
Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra
of Nice, the Orchestra of the Teatro Lirico di Caligari, the
Philharmonic Orchestra Budapest, the Hungarian National
Philharmony and the Korean Symphony Orchestra.
Frank Cramer has been invited to many Festivals such as the
Biennale Munich, the Budapest Spring Festival (Hungarian
National Philharmony), the Music Festival Mecklenburg-
Vorpommern and the renowned Tongyeong International
Music Festival in South-Korea. Numerous radio- and
television productions for the West German Radio, the
Bavarian Radio, the ZDF, the MDR Leipzig, the Swiss
Radio DRS and the Radiotelevisione Italiana (the RAI
National Symphony Orchestra Turin) show his artistic work.
For the CD Label Dacapo, Frank Cramer recorded the
complete symphonies of the Danish late-romantic composer
Ludolf Nielsen with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and
the Danish Philharmonic Orchestra. The CD label Marco Polo
published Louis Spohr’s Violin Concertos No. 3 and 9, which
Cramer recorded together with the Slowakian Radio Symphony
Orchestra and the violin soloist Christiane Edinger.
Frank Cramer resides in Munich and works as professor for
conducting at the University of Music Karlsruhe. www.hfm.eu
In 2008 he will give his debut at the Semperoper Dresden
conducting The Magic Flute. Frank Cramer will continue his
cooperations, amongst others, with the State Philharmonic
Orchestra on the Rhine and the Munich Radio Orchestra with
CD- recordings and concerts. In Italy Frank Cramer will conduct
the opening concert of the 'Festival Verona Sacra' with the
Orchestra and Chorus of the Arena di Verona in a program
with works of Pärt, Tutino, Resphigi and Britten.
In 2009 Frank Cramer will have, amongst others, his debut
with the Belgrad Philharmonic Orchestra and will start a new
cooperation with the CD Label CPO with works by the German
romantic composer Georg Schumann with the Munich Radio
Orchestra in a coproduction with the Bavarian Radio.