指揮者：マティアス・ベッケルト Matthias Beckert
Matthias Beckert (born 1976) is a German conductor, choirmaster and university teacher.
Life
Matthias Beckert comes from Westheim (Knetzgau) and teaches as a professor of choral conducting at the Karlsruhe University of Music. Previously, he was Professor of Orchestral Conducting at the Hochschule fur Musik Detmold and Professor of Choral Conducting at the Musikhochschule Wurzburg. He has also worked at the Hochschule fur Musik in Hannover and as a visiting professor at the Hochschule fur Musik in Krakow.
Beckert studied orchestral conducting with Yuuko Amanuma, church music with Gerhard Weinberger, school music and choral conducting with a master class with Jorg Straube.
Since 1998 Matthias Beckert has been director and conductor of the Monteverdichor Wurzburg. Matthias Beckert performs internationally with the vocal ensemble Cantabile Regensburg, which he has directed since 2002. He has conducted numerous world premieres and is particularly committed to contemporary choral music. He has presented premieres and world premieres in close collaboration with composers such as Krzysztof Penderecki, Wolfram Buchenberg, Zsolt Gardonyi, Heinz Werner Zimmermann, Graham Lack, Josef Lammerz, Michael Ostrzyga, Alwin M. Schronen, Toshio Hosokawa, Wilfried Hiller and Carl Rutti. The composer Heinz Werner Zimmermann dedicated the choral work I got a robe to him and Zsolt Gardonyi dedicated the choral work Ein Tag vor dem Herrn ist wie tausend Jahre.
In 2007 he was appointed choir director of the Suhl Singakademie and the Suhl Boys' Choir, which he directed until 2012.
He is also a guest conductor with radio choirs (including the Polish Radio Choir) and orchestras such as the Bach Collegium Stuttgart, the Hof Symphony Orchestra, the Jena Philharmonic, the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, the Thuringia Philharmonic Gotha, the Thuringian Symphony Orchestra Saalfeld-Rudolstadt and the Vogtland Philharmonic. He works with early music ensembles such as the Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, the Concert Royal Koln and the Wurzburg Baroque Orchestra. From 1999 to 2005 he was conductor of the Pizzicato Orchestra.
Concert conducting has taken him to France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Hungary and Japan, among others.
His work is reflected in radio, television and CD recordings.
Honours and awards
- 2007 Cultural Medal of the City of Wurzburg for the Monteverdichor led by Beckert.
- In 2009 he received awards for the choirs Monteverdichor Wurzburg and the vocal ensemble Cantabile Regensburg, which are under his direction, at the Bavarian Choir Competition of the Bavarian Music Council, forwarding to the German Choir Competition 2010 in Dortmund.
- In 2010 he was awarded the title "very good" by the international jury at the German Choir Competition and won the 2nd prize.
- 2010 Choirmaster scholarship of the German Music Council.
- 2012 Orlando di Lasso Medal of the Bavarian Singers' Association for his special musical achievements and merit in choral music (with Cantabile Regensburg).
- In 2013 he won two 1st prizes at the Bavarian Choir Competition.
- In 2014 he won 1st prize with the Monteverdichor at the German Choir Competition in Weimar.
- 2015 Prize for Music of the Keck-Koppe Foundation with the Monteverdichor Wurzburg.
- 2016 with Cantabile Regensburg 1st place International Choir Competition Budapest and prize for the best conducting.
- 2018 Main Prize of the Bucher-Dieckmeyer Foundation.
- 2022 with Cantabile Regensburg 1st prize at the Bavarian Choir Competition