Arthur Fagen
Arthur Fagen has rightly earned the reputation as one of the most versatile conductors before the public today. He has conducted operas at the world's major opera houses, including at the Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera, and Deutsche Oper Berlin, and many others. He has guest conducted around the world and has held several important posts with opera companies and orchestras.
Fagen was born in New York City on February 24, 1951. He began conducting studies there with Laszlo Halasz and later enrolled at Curtis Institute, where he studied under Max Rudolf. He took further courses at the Salzburg Mozarteum and studied with Hans Swarowsky in Vienna. At 23, Fagen won the first Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Conductors Competition; he also won Italy's Gino Marinuzzi International Conductor Competition. Following his Baltimore win, Fagen became an assistant at the Frankfurt Opera under Christoph von Dohnányi and at the Met under James Levine. From 1989-2004, Fagen served as the music director of the Queens Symphony Orchestra. Fagen also held conducting posts in Kassel and Brunswick, Germany, and served as the chief conductor of the Flanders Opera.
From 2002-2007, Fagen was the music director of the Dortmund Philharmonic and Dortmund Opera. In the 2008-2009 season, he was the principal guest conductor of Italy's Haydn Orchestra. Beginning in 2008, Fagen has served as a professor of music at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. In 2010, he was appointed the music director of the Atlanta Opera. Fagen has guest conducted major orchestras around the world, including the Tokyo Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony, Munich Radio Symphony, and major orchestras in Israel, Italy, South America, and elsewhere. As a conductor of opera, Fagen has a repertory of more than 70 operas and has led performances of the major works of Verdi, Puccini, Wagner, Strauss, and Mozart, as well as lesser-known fare by Menotti (Maria Golovin), Glass (Akhnaten), and others. In the concert realm, his repertory is similarly broad, taking in many of the standards but also including less popular fare like the symphonies of Martinu and concertos of Edward MacDowell.
Fagen has primarily recorded for Naxos, though he has also recorded for RCA and Thorofon. One of his earliest recordings was a 1997 Naxos disc of The Caucasian Sketches and other works by Ippolitov-Ivanov. Fagen's more acclaimed recordings include a pair of 2010 Naxos releases containing the complete piano concertos of Bohuslav Martinu, with the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra and pianist Giorgio Koukl. Fagen led the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony in a pair of Naxos recordings in 2020: one of music by Morton Gould and one of music by William Dawson and Ulysses Kay.
© Robert Cummings & Keith Finke /TiVo
Ähnliche Künstler
Diskografie
13 Album, -en • Geordnet nach Bestseller
-
Concertos pour piano (Volume 1)
Giorgio Koukl, Bohuslav Martinů, Arthur Fagen
Klassik - Erschienen bei Naxos am 26.01.2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Concertos pour piano (Volume 2)
Giorgio Koukl, Bohuslav Martinů, Arthur Fagen
Klassik - Erschienen bei Naxos am 16.11.2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Dawson & Kay: Orchestral Works
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Arthur Fagen
Klassik - Erschienen bei Naxos am 26.06.2020
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Gould: Symphonettes Nos. 2-4 & Spirituals for String Choir & Orchestra
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Arthur Fagen
Klassik - Erschienen bei Naxos am 27.03.2020
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
David Diamond: Symphony No. 6, Rounds & Music for Romeo and Juliet
Indiana University Chamber Orchestra, Indiana University Philharmonic Orchestra, Arthur Fagen
Klassik - Erschienen bei Naxos am 11.05.2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Caucasian Sketches / Turkish Fragments
Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra, Arthur Fagen
Klassik - Erschienen bei Naxos am 02.06.1997
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Lim Fantasy of Companionship for Piano and Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra, Tedd Joselson, Arthur Fagen
Klassik - Erschienen bei Signum Records am 23.04.2021
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Symphonies Nos. 1 and 6
Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra, Arthur Fagen
Klassik - Erschienen bei Naxos am 01.11.1997
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / Witches Dance
Stephen Prutsman, Aisling Drury Byrne, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Arthur Fagen
Klavierkonzerte - Erschienen bei Naxos am 02.10.2000
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Angulo: Conciertos para Guitarra "El Alevin"
Michael Troster, Arthur Fagen, WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln
Symphonieorchester - Erschienen bei Thorofon Records am 01.01.1999
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Rhapsodies Hongroises
Weimar Staatskapelle, Arthur Fagen
Klassik - Erschienen bei Naxos am 30.10.2007
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4
Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra, Arthur Fagen
Klassik - Erschienen bei Naxos am 01.12.2000
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Symphonies Nos. 3 and 5
Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra, Arthur Fagen
Klassik - Erschienen bei Naxos am 20.01.2002
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo