Mateusz Molęda
Mateusz Krzysztof Maksymilian Molęda (born December 4, 1986) is a German-Polish conductor.
Life[]
Mateusz Molęda was born in Dresden, Germany, into a family of musicians. His parents Alicja Borkowska-Molęda (born 1952) and Krzysztof Molęda (born 1953) are both opera singers and sang for more than two decades title and major roles at European opera houses like the Semper Opera House, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Leipzig Opera, the Royal Opera Copenhagen and the Prague State Opera. Molęda holds the German and Polish citizenship and lives in Hanover, Germany. He is fluent in German, Polish, English, French and Russian.
Education[]
Molęda started to play the piano at the age of six and studied later at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover in the class of Prof. Arie Vardi, considered one of the most distinguished piano teachers of the world, who also serves as conductor of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for more than thirty years. He continued his studies in the area of historical keyboard instruments and historical performance practice in cooperation with Prof. Zvi Meniker.
Molęda has received important musical impulses from his mentor Marek Janowski, for whom he worked by personal request also as assistant with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Dresden Philharmonic. By sharing his varied experiences, Janowski has profoundly influenced Molęda's artistic development in the spirit of the traditional German conducting school. He received other decisive musical advices in close cooperation and as assistant and cover conductor of Teodor Currentzis and the SWR Symphony Orchestra.
Molęda was a scholarship holder of the German Music Council, the German Society for the Exploitation of Ancillary Copyrights, the Theodor-Rogler-Foundation, the Anna Ruths-Foundation, the Robert-Richard-Jaudes-Foundation and the International Forum for Culture and Economy Dresden.
In 2021, Molęda finished his PhD at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Cracow with a thesis on polyphonic compositional techniques in Sergei Rachmaninov's Symphony No. 2.
Collaboration with orchestras[]
Molęda conducted for the first time an orchestra at the age of nineteen. He guest-conducted renowned orchestras in more than 10 countries of the world, among others in Germany, the UK, Denmark, Spain, Poland, Albania, South Korea, Japan and South Africa. He has worked among others with the London Mozart Players, the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin, the Nuremberg Symphony,[1] the Jena Philharmonic, the Heidelberg Philharmonic, the Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen, the Staatskapelle Schwerin, the Carl Nielsen Academy Orchestra, the Aalborg Symfoniorkester, the Aarhus Symfoniorkester, the Odense Symfoniorkester[2] and the NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic.[3]
Notable concerts[]
With his performance of Beethoven's Choral Fantasy at the Ceremony of the Federal Government on the Day of German Unity on 3 October 2007, Molęda commanded attention throughout Germany. The concert was broadcast live by the German TV channel ZDF with over eight million spectators.[4]
On 10 June 2016, Molęda conducted a German-Polish friendship concert to mark the 800th anniversary of the city of Koszalin, during which orchestra musicians from the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra and the Koszalin Philharmonic Orchestra were on stage together. The Two Symphonic Pictures op. 19 by Karl Adolf Lorenz were premiered during this concert. The Bavarian Television made the documentary film "Die doppelte Heimat" about this event.[5]
On November 8 2018, Molęda conducted the world premiere of the Concerto for Hammond organ by Danish composer Anders Koppel, the first composition of this genre ever.[6][7][8]
Activity as lecturer[]
In addition to his work as a conductor, Molęda gives lectures throughout Germany on the topic of "United in diversity – How music strengthens the bonds between the Europeans", among others at the Forum Heiligenberg of the Schloss Heiligenberg Seeheim-Jugenheim Foundation[9] and the Hessian State Centre for Political Education in Wiesbaden.
TV and radio recordings[]
Numerous radio and television recordings are available, including for BR Klassik, MDR Kultur, DR 2, KBS, BR-Fernsehen, MDR Fernsehen and MBC.
CD releases (selection)[]
- 2010 Flügelschwingen (as pianist)[10]
References[]
- ^ "Nürnberger Symphoniker in Koszalin: Freundschaftskonzert zum Stadtjubiläum | BR-Klassik". 13 June 2016.
- ^ "Romantic Overload".
- ^ "NFM Wrocław Philharmonic in Legnica".
- ^ Mateusz Molęda - ZDF Live - 3.Oktober 2007. YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-08.
- ^ https://programm.ard.de/?sendung=2810717999142149
- ^ https://www.aarhussymfoni.dk/koncert/kaerlighed-doed-og-forvandling/
- ^ https://slippedisc.com/2019/01/the-first-concerto-for-hammond-organ-and-orchestra/
- ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Anders Koppel & Aarhus Symfoniorkester - Koncert for Hammondorgel og orkester (uropførelse). YouTube.
- ^ http://www.heiligenberg-jugenheim.de/programm-2019/
- ^ http://arrjayclassics.de/html/body_details_0.html
External links[]
- German male conductors (music)
- 1986 births
- Living people
- Musicians from Dresden
- 21st-century German conductors (music)
- 21st-century German male musicians