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Frank Cramer | short - biography
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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, ( a.o. Vienna, Zurich, Basel, Bern, Budapest, Florence, Turin, Genoa, Sevilla, Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg, Düsseldorf-Duisburg) the USA, Eastern Asia and South Africa. His broad repertoire ranges from Mozarts’ Le Nozze di Figaro to Wagners’ Tristan und Isolde and Strauss' Salome to Bergs’ Wozzeck. In concerts Frank Cramer favors the composers Beethoven, Mozart, Mahler and particulary Bruckner. Further more devotes himself to non-main stream composers, like the late romantics Zemlinsky, Korngold and Nielsen or composers like Messiaen, Lutoslawski, Schönberg and Webern. Frank Cramer has been invited to many Festivals such as the Biennale Munich, the Budapest Spring Festival (Hungarian National Philharmony) 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 Swiss Radio DRS, the Radiotelevisione Italiana (the RAI National Symphony Orchestra Turin) and the MDR Leipzig show his artistic work. For the CD Label Dacapo, Frank Cramer conducted the complete symphonies of the Danish late-romantic composer Ludolf Nielsen with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and the Danish Philharmonic Orchestra. Frank Cramer resides in Munich and works as professor for conducting at the University of Music Karlsruhe. 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. 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 as well as concerts with the Orchestra Sinfonica del Friuli-Venezia-Giulia. In 2009 Frank Cramer will have, amongst others, his debut with the Belgrad Philharmonic Orchestra and will contiune his cooperation with the Orchestra of the Arena di Verona in the Teatro Filarmonico of Verona. |
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