Marc Minkowski |

Marc minkowski

Having received an initial musical education in the bassoon class, Mark Minkowski tried himself as a conductor in his early youth. His first mentor was Charles Brooke, under whom he studied at the School. Pierre Monte (USA). At the age of nineteen, Minkowski founded the Musicians of the Louvre orchestra, which played a significant role in reviving interest in baroque music. Starting with French baroque music (Lully, Rameau, Mondoville, etc.) and Handel’s compositions (“Triumph of Time and Truth”, “Ariodant”, “Julius Caesar”, “Hercules”, “Semela”, motets, orchestral music), the collective subsequently replenished the repertoire with the music of Mozart, Rossini, Offenbach, Bizet and Wagner.

With his orchestra and other ensembles, Minkowski has performed all over Europe – from Salzburg (“Abduction from the Seraglio”, “The Bat”, “Mithridates, King of Pontus”, “That’s What Everyone Do”) to Brussels (“Cinderella”, “Don Quixote” , Huguenots, Il Trovatore, 2012) and from Aix-en-Provence (The Marriage of Figaro, Idomeneo, King of Crete, Abduction from the Seraglio) to Zurich (Triumph of Time and Truth, Julius Caesar ”, “Agrippina”, “Boreads”, “Fidelio”, “Favorite”). Since 1995, the Musicians of the Louvre have regularly participated in the Bremen Music Festival.

Mark Minkowski often performs at the Parisian Grand Opera (Platea, Idomeneo, King of Crete, The Magic Flute, Ariodant, Julius Caesar, Iphigenia in Tauris, Mireille), Theater Chatelet ( La Belle Helena”, “The Duchess of Herolstein”, “Carmen”, the French premiere of Wagner’s opera “Fairies”) and other Parisian theaters, in particular at the Opéra Comique, where he resumed the production of Boildieu’s opera “The White Lady”, conducted Massenet’s opera “Cinderella” and the opera “Pelléas et Mélisande” in honor of the centenary of its first performance (2002). He also performs in Venice (The Black Domino by Auber), Moscow (Pelléas et Mélisande directed by Olivier Pi), Berlin (Robert the Devil, Triumph of Time and Truth, 2012) and Vienna at the An- der Wien (Hamlet, 2012) and the Vienna State Opera (where the Musicians of the Louvre became the first foreign orchestra admitted to the orchestra pit in 2010).

Since 2008, Mark Minkowski has been the musical director of the orchestra. Warsaw Symphony and guest conductor of several symphony orchestras. Recently, his repertoire has been dominated by works by XNUMXth-century composers: Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, Lily Boulanger, Albert Roussel, John Adams, Heinrich Mykolaj Goretsky and Olivier Greif. The conductor often performs in Germany (with the Dresden Staatskapelle Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Berlin Symphony and various Munich orchestras). He also collaborates with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra. Gustav Mahler, the Swedish and Finnish Radio Orchestras, the Toulouse National Capitol Orchestra and the newly formed Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 2007, the Musicians of the Louvre signed an exclusive contract with the recording studio naive. In 2009, a concert recording of all of Haydn’s “London” symphonies, made at the Vienna Concert Hall, was released, and in 2012 the band recorded all of Schubert’s symphonies in the same hall. In May 2012, Mark Minkowski hosted the second D Major festival on the French island of Ile de Ré in the Atlantic Ocean. In addition, he has recently been appointed Artistic Director of the Salzburg Mozart Week Festival; this season he will conduct Mozart’s opera Lucius Sulla at the festival. In May 2013, the conductor will make his debut with the Vienna Philharmonic, and in July 2013 the London Symphony Orchestra will perform Don Giovanni under his baton at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. In the autumn of 2012, in honor of the thirtieth anniversary of the concert activity, the “Musicians of the Louvre” held a series of concerts Private domain (“Personal space”) in the Parisian Cité de la Músique and the Salle Pleyel.