Peter Stangel
b. 1964
German
Summary
Peter Stangel was born in 1964 in the former CSSR into a German-Czech-Hungarian-Slovak-Jewish-Catholic family. In 1968 the family moved to West Germany, where Stangel grew up mostly in Hannover.
At his own request, he takes violin and piano lessons and makes his first attempts at composition. After graduating from high school, he studied music and musicology (with a detour into physics and mathematics) and at the same time trained as a communication trainer.
From 1990 on, Stangel embarked on the classic German Kapellmeister path: as tutor, director of studies and first Kapellmeister at various European opera houses (Bielefeld, St. Gallen, Innsbruck, Heidelberg), he developed a repertoire of almost 70 operas and around 250 symphonic works and in 1997 went to the Amsterdam State Opera for two years as "assistant conductor", where he oversaw the new production of the entire "Ring des Nibelungen".
In 1999, Peter Stangel was simultaneously appointed General Music Director of the traditional "Loh Orchestra" (Max Bruch Philharmonic, founded in 1639) in Thuringia and first guest conductor of the State Opera in Ljubljana (Slovenia).
Peter Stangel has been working as a freelancer in Munich since 2004, concentrating primarily on compositional work ("Cabaret Voltaire", "Jean Paul", "Dribbling"), as well as on the development and artistic direction of the Taschenphilharmonie. This unusual ensemble now organizes three of its own series of concerts in Munich alone and is known for its innovative formats. 40 CDs have been released so far, some of which have received several awards, some of them international.
Biography
Peter Stangel was born in 1964 in the former CSSR into a German-Czech-Hungarian-Slovak-Jewish-Catholic family. In 1968 the family moved to West Germany, where Stangel grew up mostly in Hannover.
At his own request, he takes violin and piano lessons and makes his first attempts at composition. After graduating from high school, he studied music and musicology (with a detour into physics and mathematics) and at the same time trained as a communication trainer.
From 1990 on, Stangel embarked on the classic German Kapellmeister path: as tutor, director of studies and first Kapellmeister at various European opera houses (Bielefeld, St. Gallen, Innsbruck, Heidelberg), he developed a repertoire of almost 70 operas and around 250 symphonic works and in 1997 went to the Amsterdam State Opera for two years as "assistant conductor", where he oversaw the new production of the entire "Ring des Nibelungen".
In 1999, Peter Stangel was simultaneously appointed General Music Director of the traditional "Loh Orchestra" (Max Bruch Philharmonic, founded in 1639) in Thuringia and first guest conductor of the State Opera in Ljubljana (Slovenia).
Peter Stangel has been working as a freelancer in Munich since 2004, concentrating primarily on compositional work ("Cabaret Voltaire", "Jean Paul", "Dribbling"), as well as on the development and artistic direction of theTaschenphilharmonie. This unusual ensemble now organizes three of its own series of concerts in Munich alone and is known for its innovative formats. 40 CDs have been released so far, some of which have received several awards, some of them international.