| Ingo Ingensand |
 Ingo Ingensand was born in Hanover, where at the young age of 12 he was awarded a scholarship to study under Professor Alfred Koerppen. In Berlin he studied conducting, piano, composition, bassoon, violin and singing at university. Influential teachers included the conductors Herbert von Karajan, Carl Melles and Zubin Mehta, and composers Erhart Großkopf and Boris Blacher. Ingo Ingensand then forged long-lasting ties with the opera houses in Heidelberg, Basel, Cologne and Linz. As a guest conductor he toured extensively around Europe and performed at festivals in Italy, Spain, the Czech Republic, Austria and Germany. Concerts, CD recordings and radio recordings saw him conducting the SWR Radio Orchestra, the Slovak Philharmonia Bratislava, the orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin and the Cologne Gürzenich Orchestra. He is particularly dedicated to young musicians, whether in youth concerts, as visiting lecturer in Winterthur and Zurich, or in his conducting class at the Anton Bruckner Private University, where he also works with the orchestra. 20th century music is one focal point of his programmes. From September 2000 Ingo Ingensand was Artistic Director of the Bruckner Orchester Linz for two years, and he is now their Resident Conductor. |
