Artistic Director

phone    :    +49 (0) 30 27890 - 190

email: fstrobel(at)filmphilharmonie.de

http://www.frankstrobel.de

General Management: http://www.ekkehardjung.de

With his exceptional musicianship, versatility, technical expertise, knowledge and dedication, Frank Strobel has established himself as an important figure in the world of film music. He combines a thorough grounding in the Classical, Romantic and 20th century concert repertoire with a wealth of experience as a conductor, arranger, editor, producer and recording artist. These qualities and skills give him unique insight into a rich and relatively unexplored area of the musical repertoire.

As well as editing and conducting the original music for silent film classics, Frank Strobel has made a speciality of arranging and performing new scores. Vintage films he has worked on include Battleship Potemkin, The New Babylon, Alexander Nevski, Dr Mabuse, Metropolis, The Nibelungen, Rosenkavalier, Nosferatu, Faust, Pandora`s Box, Tabu, Berlin: Symphony of a Big City, Romeo and Juliet, The Lodger, Mr West, Intolerance, Foolish Wives, City Lights, The Gold Rush, Modern Times, The Circus and The Kid. For the Berlinale 2001, Berlin’s Film Festival he conducted the premiere of a new score by Bernd Schultheis for the restoration of Metropolis. In 2003 he edited the reconstructed original music by Prokofiev for Alexander Nevsky, which he then conducted and recorded for CD, winning the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik 2004. This production was subsequently performed at the Bolshoi Theatre. He has also worked on many new German, British and American films and TV movies, including The Young Poisoner’s Handbook, Victory, Meschugge, Gloomy Sunday, Blueprint, Die Buddenbrooks and Pope Joan.

Frank Strobel enjoys particularly close professional relationships with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon, NDR Radio Orchestra Hannover, Sydney Symphony and Konzerthaus Vienna. From 1997 to 1998 he was Principal Conductor of the German Filmorchestra Babelsberg. Since 2000 he has been Artistic Director of the European FilmPhilharmonic Institute Berlin, which distributes film music materials and manages film music productions and performances worldwide. His concert tours have taken him to Europe, to the USA, Canada, South America, Australia, the Far East and Asia. He has participated in numerous music festivals, including the Berlin and Vienna Festivals.

Highlights of the present season include debuts with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and “Metropolis” at the Chatelet, as well as London Symphony Orchestra, NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, Bamberger Symphoniker, Orquesta Sinfonica de Barcelona and the Filarmonica della Scala in Milan.

Frank Strobel is strongly committed to the works of Alfred Schnittke. In 1992 he conducted the first performance of The End of St Petersburg at the Alte Oper Frankfurt. He has also recorded Schnittke’s music for The Master and Margarita with the Moscow Philharmonic, and he led the first Russian performance of Concerto Grosso No 5 with Gidon Kremer and the Russian National Orchestra. At the request of the composer himself, Frank Strobel was arranging the Schnittke’s film music into concert suites. In association with DeutschlandRadio Kultur, the CD label Capriccio is releasing a series of these suites; the first and second issues were awarded the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik in 2005 and 2006.

An important part of Frank Strobel’s film projects have been recorded on DVD. Some recent releases include The General Line, The New Babylon, Der Schatz and Der Rosenkavalier.

Artistic Planning & Music Library

phone    :    +49 (0) 30 27890 - 196
fax         :    +49 (0) 30 27890 - 195

email: wuenschel(at)filmphilharmonie.de

Ulrich Wünschel M.A. completed his studies in musicology, music education and English Literature at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt. Lectures on film music and the work for the EUROPEAN FILMPHILHARMONIC INSTITUTE reflect his (still growing) fascination for this kind of art. His master’s thesis deals with the reconstruction of Sergey Prokofiev’s film score to ALEXANDER NEVSKY (by Sergey Eisenstein).

Junior Concert Manager

phone    :    +49 (0)30 27890 191
fax         :    +49 (0)30 27890 195

email: tellier(at)filmphilharmonie.de

Florence Tellier studied English and Spanish (Bachelor degree) in France and Norway and European Studies - Culture at the Europa-Universität Viadrina. Since 2011 she holds a Master of Arts.

In 2009 she attended EUROPEAN FILMPHILHARMONIC INSTITUTE as an intern. 2010 she was project assistant for some productions of EUROPEAN FILMPHILHARMONIC INSTITUTE.  Since 2011 she is Junior Concert Manager.

Public Relations

phone: +49 (0) 30 27890 190
email: publicrelations(at)filmphilharmonie.de

Following a degree in film studies and journalism at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Peter Moormann completed his PhD in 2007. Since 2008, he has worked as a research assistant at the Department of Musicology of the Free University of Berlin. He has published several books and articles on the subject of film music, including Klassiker der Filmmusik, Reclam 2009.

Administration

phone    :    +49 (0)30 27890 190
fax         :    +49 (0)30 27890 195

email: admin(at)filmphilharmonie.de

Friedemann Beyer - Consultant score productions

phone    :    +49 (0) 30 27890 - 190
fax         :    +49 (0) 30 27890 - 195

email: production(at)filmphilharmonie.de

Supervisor musical projects

Composer

phone    :    +49 (0)30 27890 190
fax         :    +49 (0)30 27890 195

email: lervik(at)filmphilharmonie.de
homepage: www.olavlervik.com

Olav Lervik was born 1982 in Strasbourg (France). He won several national competitions in Germany as a young composer. At the age of 16 he got his first composition-lessons with Prof. Spahlinger in Freiburg. He studied composition with Michael Obst in Weimar and with Michael Jarrell in Geneva. He at the same time completed his studies in opera-correpetition with Ulrich Vogel in Weimar. Since 2009 Olav Lervik studies with Marco Stroppa in Stuttgart.

He has worked and had his pieces performed by numerous renowned ensembles and musicians (a.o. SR-Orchestra Saarbrücken, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Recherche, Minguet-Quartett, Emsemble SurPlus). He also was invited to participate in Masterclasses with Tristan Murail, Brian Ferneyhough, Chaya Chernovin, Wolfgang Rihm, Helmut Lachenmann (et al.).

Olav Lervik has gotten a scholarship and residency at the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben. He obtained commissions from the piano festival Ruhr and the SWR.

He has assisted the EUROPEAN FILMPHILHARMONIC INSTITUTE with the Projects METROPOLIS, MATRIX and NIBELUNGEN.

Supervisor Musical Projects

Conductor

phone    :    +49 (0)30 27890 190
fax         :    +49 (0)30 27890 195

email: schuchri2(at)gmail.com

In March 2010, Christian Schumann made his debut at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, conducting two performances of Peter Eötvös’s latest opera Die Tragödie des Teufels. In January 2010, he conducted Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte in Würzburg. From 2007 until 2009, he was engaged at the Swizz company in St. Gallen, where he returned in April 2010 for the first local staging of Benjamin Schweitzer’s Jakob von Gunten.

Christian Schumann conducted orchestras such as Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra, Nürnberger Symphoniker, Philharmonia Orchestra London, Staatskapelle Weimar as well as the Ensemble Resonanz and the Austrian Ensemble for New Music (OENM).

In November 2010, Christian Schumann makes his debut at Teatr Wielki in Warszawa, conducting four performances of Eötvös’s Lady Sarashina and he will return to the Bavarian State Opera in
January 2011 for further performances of Die Tragödie des Teufels.

Christian Schumann will conduct concerts in Hanoi and Munich in 2010, in 2011 he will make his debuts with the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra as well as with the Hamburg Symphoniker and he will return to Weimar’s Kunstfest. In January 2011, he will work with ensembleKONTRASTE.