AboutOfficial Site: http://www.haenchen.net/HARTMUT HAENCHEN was born in Dresden and began his artistic career as a member of the Dresden Kreuzchor under Rudolf Mauersberger. He conducted his first concerts as choirmaster at the age of 15 and came to wider public attention at the age of 17 with his re-discovery of J.A. Hasse's "Requiem". He studied conducting and voice at the Dresden Hochschule für Musik from 1960 to 1966, from which he graduated with distinction. He simultaneously qualified in voice teaching. Later on he participated in masterclasses in Berlin and in the Carinthian Summer Festival in Austria as well as observing rehearsals led by Herbert von Karajan and at the Bayreuth Festspiele. His first position took him to Halle, where he was director of the Robert-Franz-Singakademie and conductor of the Halle Philharmonic. He won the first prize in the Carl Maria von Weber conducting competition in Dresden in 1971. Hartmut Haenchen became first Kapellmeister in Zwickau in 1972. At the same time he made his debut in the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin with Mussorgsky's "Boris Godunov", remaining a permanent guest conductor there until 1986. From 1976 to 1979 he was the Musical director of the Mecklenburg State Orchestra and State Opera in Schwerin, a post in which Kurt Masur and Klaus Tennstedt had preceeded him. He was also engaged by the Berlin Komische Oper as permanent guest conductor from 1980 to 1996. He was appointed music director of the "Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach" Chamber Orchestra in Berlin in 1980; since that time the orchestra has developed through its numerous prize-winning recordings (Deutscher Schallplattenpreis 1988, Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik 1989, Gramophone Award nomination 1990), television appearances and touring engagements into one of the most outstanding chamber orchestras of the moment. He was also appointed Professor at the Dresden Hochschule für Musik. From 1986 - 2002 Hartmut Haenchen was chief conductor of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and Netherlands Chamber Orchestra. With the orchestras he made many recordings, among which the first recording of Mahlers 5th Symphony in super-audio, SACD. In protest against the political decision to cut down drastically the budget of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Hartmut Haenchen resigned his position as chief conductor of the two ensembles. On September 9, 2002 he conducted his last concert as chief conductor with Mahler's Symphony No. 8 which was the last concert of the Mahler cycle. He maintains his relationship with the orchestra as guest conductor. From 1986 - 1999 Hartmut Haenchen was Musical Director of the Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam. At the Netherlands Opera he conducted Strauss: Elektra, Salome, Rosenkavalier, Frau ohne Schatten, Mozart: Mitridate, Figaro, Entführung, Zauberflöte, Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (with the Royal Concertgebouw-Orchester), Parsifal, Meistersinger, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Verdi: Don Carlos, Bartók: Blaubart, Mussorgski: Boris, Berlioz: Damnation de Faust, Gluck: Orphée, Alceste, Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth, The Nose, Strauß: Fledermaus, Saint-Saëns: Samson, Puccini: La Bohème, Tchaikowski: Mazeppa, Onegin and Berg: Wozzeck, Lulu. After the completion of his "Ring" cycle for the Netherlands Opera he exchanged his position of musical director for that of first guest conductor with a contract until 2006. In this position he conducts and conducted the premieres and performances of Gluck: Alceste, Wagner: Meistersinger, Tannhäuser and the integral "Ring des Nibelungen", Strauss: Capriccio, Szymanowksi: Krol Roger, Tchaikowski: Onegin, Mozart: Titus, Idomeneo and Zauberflöte, Reimann: Lear, Berg: Lulu, B.A. Zimmermann: Die Soldaten. Guest engagements have taken him to almost all countries of Europe, including several appearances with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Dresden State Orchestra, the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam as well as to Japan, Hong-Kong to the USA and to Canada. He has conducted at the opera houses of Bologna, Geneva, Jerusalem, London, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, Stuttgart, Warsaw, Vienna and Wiesbaden. Two of the productions that he conducted at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden were awarded with the Laurence Olivier Award. In 1994 he returned to Covent Garden to conduct Le Nozze di Figaro. In December 2003 he made his debut at the Los Angeles Opera which resulted in immediate reinvitations for the near future. Opera de Paris invited him for Strauss: Salome Hartmut Haenchen has made more than 100 recordings with his different orchestras for BERLIN CLASSICS, CAPRICCIO, NAXOS, PENTATONE, PHILIPS, SONY CLASSICAL and VANGUARD. From 2002 onwards Hartmut Haenchen he is the new intendant of the Dresdner Musikfestspiele. For his services to music he was honoured by the Queen of the Netherlands with her highest decoration, the first time that a German had been distinguished in that way; he was made a knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion. He has also been made a full member of the Akademie der Künste in Saxony. Hartmut Haenchen's book on musical reflection, entitled "Doubt as Weapon", attracted much attention in the Dutch musical world. The book "Von der Unvereinbarkeit von Macht und Liebe" on Wagner's "Ring" has been a great success with the public and the press. Most recently his collection of 14 volumes of "Mahler's Fictitious Letters" (in German and Dutch) has been published. In the near future his musical writings will appear in German. |
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