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, Semperoper Dresden, 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 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.
From 1988 to 2009 Frank Cramer worked as professor for
conducting at the University of Music Karlsruhe | Germany.
In 2009 he is nominated as professor for opera and music theatre
at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz | Austria.
Frank Cramer resides in Munich and Graz.
In 2008 he gave his debut at the Semperoper Dresden, with
Mozarts The Magic Flute and conducted concerts in Germany,
Austria, Italy and South-Korea.
In 2009 Frank Cramer, among others, willl give his debut with the
Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and will continue his cooperation
with the Orchestra of the Arena di Verona in the Teatro Filarmonico
of Verona.
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