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Rolf Beck
German conductor (born 1945) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rolf Beck (15 January 1945) is a German conductor, especially a choral conductor. He was, from 1999 to 2013, Intendant of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. He founded several choirs and the Internationale Chorakademie Lübeck (International Choral Academy Lübeck).
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Born in Michelstadt,[1] Beck studied law at the Marburg University and Lausanne University. He studied conducting at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt with Helmuth Rilling.[1] He founded and directed the Marburger Vocalensemble (Marburg Vocal Ensemble).[2]
From 1981, Beck was intendant of the Bamberg Symphony, where he founded the choir Chor der Bamberger Symphoniker[2] in 1983, and the instrumental ensemble Concerto Bamberg.[1] From 1996 he was director of the sections orchestra and choir for the broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk.[1] He was intendant of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival from 1999 to 2013.[1][3] In 2013 he conducted with the festival choir and orchestra a charity concert of the President of Germany, Joachim Gauck, featuring Verdi's Quattro pezzi sacri and Rossini's Stabat Mater.[4] He founded a Chorakademie as part of the festival, a place of study and performance for young international singers. After retiring, he kept directing the academy under the new name Internationale Chorakademie Lübeck (International Choral Academy Lübeck).[2][5] He founded in 2015 a choral academy in Brazil, performing first Carl Orff's Carmina Burana.[6] With the Lübeck academy, he conducted four of Bach's motets for the Rheingau Musik Festival at St. Stephan, Mainz on 27 August 2015.[5][7]
He was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz in 1989,[8] and was appointed honorary professor of Schleswig-Holstein in 2008.[9]
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