Patrik Ringborg

Patrik Ringborg (born November 1, 1965 in Stockholm) is a Swedish conductor, Music director at the State Theater in Kassel, Germany.

After studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and with Maestro Kurt Bendix, Patrik Ringborg was a répétiteur at the Royal Opera in Stockholm from 1989 to 1993, also assisting the Music Director and conducting performances in the Royal Opera House. He also assisted the Music Directors at the Semperoper in Dresden (1988) and at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto (1992).

From 1993 to 1999 Patrik Ringborg worked as staff conductor with the Freiburg Opera, where his position in 1997 was elevated to Deputy Music Director. From 1997 to 2003 he conducted at the Aalto-Theater in Essen, where in 1999 he was appointed Principal Conductor and lead over 20 different music theatre works including premières like Gounod's "Faust", "Don Pasquale", "Hänsel und Gretel", "Der Freischütz", "Andrea Chénier" and Henze's "Orpheus". After Ringborg's first year in Essen critics named him "Season's best conductor" together with John Fiore and Essen's music director Stefan Soltesz ("Neues Rheinland", August 2000). He also was the Artistic Director of the German Kurt Weill Festival 2000.Until July 2007 Patrik Ringborg was Chief conductor with the Freiburg Opera, where he e.g. conducted the opera productions "The Rhinegold" and "Elektra".From the season 2007/2008 Patrik Ringborg is Music director at the State Theater in Kassel, where he also is the leader of the "Mahler-Festtage" (celebrated every second year in honour of the late Music Director in Kassel, Gustav Mahler).

Patrik Ringborg's engagements as guest conductor include main German orchestras like the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, the Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Radio SO Frankfurt, the WDR SO Cologne, the Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie Chemnitz, the Stuttgart Philharmonic, the Munich Symphony and the Bremen State Orchestra. Outside of Germany he has worked in Sweden with orchestras like the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Royal Opera Stockholm and the symphony orchestras in Malmö, Helsingborg and Norrköping, in Norway with the Stavanger Symphony, in Austria (Orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper) as well as in Hungary and Spain.

Patrik Ringborg made his debut at the Gothenburg Opera in 1998 with "Tannhäuser". After conducting a première of "Cavalleria Rusticana"/"I Pagliacci" in the subsequent season, he was appointed Principal Guest Conductor and returned with the premières of "Il Trovatore" and "Manon Lescaut". From 1998 to 2006 Ringborg conducted all Wagner productions at the Gothenburg Opera. Following "Lohengrin" in the year 2000, he conducted a première of "Tristan and Isolde" in 2003 after which the Orchestra of the Gothenburg Opera was awarded the Opera Prize by the newspaper "Svenska Dagbladet" and Ringborg was a nominee for the prize founded by the Swedish magazine "Opera". In the next season a production of "Die Walküre" followed, which was played yearly until 2006.

In 2004 Patrik Ringborg lead concert performances of "Werther" with the Staatskapelle Weimar, returning to the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar two years later for a première of "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" and in 2008 for a new production of "Tosca". In 2005 he conducted "Nabucco" at the Staatsoper Dresden and "La Forza del Destino" at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he conducts "Manon Lescaut" in October 2008.

Patrik Ringborg conducts the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony 2008.

Further reading

* "wagnerspectrum". Werktreue bei Wagner. Der Dirigent Patrik Ringborg im Gespräch mit Egon Voss. Koenigshausen + Neumann Verlag 2005. ISBN 3-8260-3285-3
* "Nationalencyklopedin", Supplementband 3. Article "Patrik Ringborg". NE Förlag 1999. ISBN 91-7133-740-7
* "Die Walküre" by Richard Wagner. Act II, Schott Music 2004. ISMN M-001-12529-1
* "Die Walküre" by Richard Wagner. Act III, Schott Music 2005. ISMN M-001-12974-9
* "A Gallery Carol" av Patrik Ringborg. SK Förlag 1985. ISMN M-070-01675-9

Recordings

*"Växlar". Stockholms Läns Blåsarsymfoniker. Conductor: Patrik Ringborg. Oeuvres for wind orchester from the 20th century by e.g. Hugo Alfvén, Anders Hillborg and Erland von Koch, Twin Music TMCD-18, 1993.
*"Höga Visan". Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Radiokören. Conductors: Patrik Ringborg, Mats Rondin and Manfred Honeck. Works by Natanael Berg, Phono Suecia PSCD 721, 2003.

External links

* [http://www.staatstheater-kassel.de/ Staatstheater Kassel]
* [http://www.ringb.org/ Website on the conductor Patrik Ringborg]

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