Ingo Metzmacher
Metzmacher, 2018
Born	(1957-11-10)10 November 1957 Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
Occupation	Conductor
Organizations	Bamberg Symphony Hamburg State Opera Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

Ingo Metzmacher (born 10 November 1957) is a German conductor andartistic director of the festival KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen in Hanover.^[1]

Metzmacher was born inHanover, the son of the cellistRudolf Metzmacher and the research biologist Lore Schoen.^[2] His musical education in piano, music theory and conducting was in Hanover, Salzburg and Cologne.^[2] He later joined the Ensemble Modern in 1980 as its pianist and became the orchestra's conductor in 1985.^[3] In 1987 he gave his opera debut at theOper Frankfurt.^[4][5]

In 1994 Metzmacher conducted the premiere of the revised version of Henze'sSymphony No. 6.^[6] In 1997 he conducted the world premiere of Henze'sSymphony No. 9 at the composer's request.^[7]

Between 1995 and 1999 he was principal guest conductor of theBamberg Symphony^[8] and from 1997 to 2005 he served as general music director of the City of Hamburg, which covered theHamburg State Opera and itsPhilharmonic Orchestra.^[9] In 2005 the Hamburg State Opera was voted Opera House of the Year by the leading German opera magazine,Opernwelt.^[10] Metzmacher left his post in Hamburg after disputes with the city over funding.^[11]

In 2005 he became chief conductor ofDe Nederlandse Opera (DNO) in Amsterdam.^[12] In February 2007 the opera announced that Metzmacher would step down from his post as DNO's chief conductor in 2008.^[13][5] From 2007 to 2010 he was the chief conductor and artistic director of theDeutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO-Berlin).^[14] His original contract with the DSO-Berlin was through 2011. However, after reports of disputes over financing and a threatened reduction in the size of the orchestra, in March 2009 Metzmacher announced his early resignation from the DSO-Berlin principal conductorship as of the summer of 2010.^[15][16] His final concerts as the orchestra's principal conductor were in June 2010 in Berlin^[17] and in August 2010 at theBBC Proms at theRoyal Albert Hall.^[18]

Ingo Metzmacher is regularly conducting at leading opera houses, includingRoyal Opera House Covent Garden,Zurich Opera House,La Scala,Teatro Real,Vienna State Opera,Berlin State Opera,Paris Opera andGeneva Opera.^[19]

He has led orchestras such as theBerlin Philharmonic,Vienna Philharmonic,Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra,Chicago Symphony Orchestra,Czech Philharmonic,Russian National Orchestra,St. Petersburg Philharmonic,London Philharmonic Orchestra,BBC Symphony Orchestra,Orchestre de Paris,Vienna Symphony Orchestra, andNew Japan Philharmonic.^[19]

• Shostakovich:Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (with Angela Denoke, Misha Didyk, Kurt Rydl, Marian Talaba,Nadia Krasteva, Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera; Orfeo, 2011)^[20]
• Franz Schubert:Heliopolis (Matthias Goerne, baritone; Ingo Metzmacher, piano; harmonia mundi, 2009)^[21]
• Messiaen:Éclairs Sur L'Au-Delà... (with Vienna Philharmonic; Kairos, 2008)^[22]
• Alban Berg:Wozzeck (with Bo Skovhus, Angela Denoke, Frode Olsen, Chris Merritt, Jan Blinkhof, Jürgen Sacher, Choir of the Hamburg State Opera, Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg; EMI Classics, 1999)^[23]
• Henze:Symphony No. 9 (with Berlin Philharmonic; EMI Classics, 1998)^[24]
• Luigi Nono:Prometeo. Tragedia Dell'Ascolto (with Ingrid Ade-Jesemann, Monika Bair-Ivenz, Peter Hall, Solistenchor Freiburg, Ensemble Modern; Ricordi/EMI Classics, 1995)^[25]
• Henze:Requiem (with Ueli Wiget,Håkan Hardenberger, Ensemble Modern; Sony Classical, 1994)^[26]
• Conlon Nancarrow:Studies (with Ensemble Modern; BMG, 1993)^[27]
• Charles Ives:A Portrait (with Ensemble Modern; EMI, 1992)^[28]
• Complete symphonies ofKarl Amadeus Hartmann, recorded with the Bamberg Symphony between 1993 and 1997.^[29][30][31]

• Metzmacher, Ingo (2005).Keine Angst vor neuen Tönen (in German). Berlin: Rowohlt.ISBN 978-3-87134-478-7.
• Metzmacher, Ingo (2009).Vorhang auf! (in German). Berlin: Rowohlt Berlin.ISBN 978-3-87134-576-0.

• 1996:Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik for Luigi Nono’sPrometeo (with Ingrid Ade-Jesemann, Monika Bair-Ivenz, Peter Hall, Solistenchor Freiburg and Ensemble Modern)^[32]
• 1998:Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik for the complete recording of Karl Amadeus Hartmann's symphonies (with the Bamberg Symphony)^[33]
• 1998:ECHO Klassik, Conductor of the Year^[34]
• 1998:Opernwelt, Conductor of the Year^[35]
• 1999:Niedersachsenpreis for Culture^[36]
• 2000:ECHO Klassik, Symphonic Recording (with Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg)
• 2009: Praetorius Music Prize awarded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of Lower Saxony^[37]
• 2010:Opernwelt, Conductor of the Year^[38]

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