conductor
Performance Dates
April 19/20/21 8:00 PM
GRIEG: Peer Gynt
MOZART: Violin Concerto No. 5
BORODIN: Polovetsian Dances
Norwegian born conductor, resided since 1987 in Vienna, Austria,
Took his first piano lessons at the age of six, his first trumpet lessons at eight, and had also a career as a boy soprano. Later he joined pop and jazz bands playing keyboards.
In 1986 he graduated from the Norwegian Conservatory of Music in Oslo where he studied piano, song and composition. He attended the Aspen conducting seminar in Colorado (1985), Jorma Panula’s class of conducting in Stockholm (1986-87) and graduated from "Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst" in Vienna under the direction of Prof. Karl Österreicher (1987-92). At the same institution he attended a master class with Zubin Mehta.
He studied with Leonard Bernstein at Santa Cecilia in Rome and assisted him at recordings in Vienna (1987-90). He assisted Myung-Whun Chung at the Norwegian Opera in Oslo (1989) and at the National Opera in France, Paris (1994) and Mariss Jansons in Vienna (2004)
Remmereit conducted “Wiener Residenz Orchester” (1989-92). He was Artistic Director at the Ukrainian State Opera in Kharkov (1992-95). Simultaneously he conducted the National Philharmonic Orchestra in Kiev. These ensembles he led on tours through Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland.
Among others, Remmereit has conducted these orchestras and opera companies: Baltimore Symph, Bergen Philh, Bern Philh, Copenhagen Philh, Copenhagen Royal Theatre, Dallas Symph, Filarmonica della Scala Milan, Gelders Orch. Arnhem, Graz Symph, Gulbenkian Orch. Lisbon, KBS Symph. Seoul, Limburgh Symph. Maastricht, Madison Symph, Mozartheum Salzburg, Montpellier Philh, Munich Philh, Nashville Symph, National Arts Centre Orch. Ottawa, NDR Radio- philh. Hanover, Norwegian State Opera, Oslo Philh, Pittsburgh Symph, Rheinland-Pfalz Philh. Ludwigshafen, Seoul Philh, Stockholm Philh, Teatro alla Scala Milan, Tokyo Philh, Vienna Symph, Württemberg Philh. Reutlingen.
website: www.remmereit.com
Updated: 8/31/06 |
Arild Remmereit 
