Rolf Beck
{{Short description|German conductor (born 1945)}}
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| birth_place = Michelstadt, Germany
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- Marburg University
- Lausanne University
- {{lang|de|Musikhochschule Frankfurt|italic=no}}
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- Conductor
- Culture and music administrator
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- Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
- {{lang|de|Internationale Chorakademie Lübeck|italic=no}}
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- Order of Merit of Germany
- Honorary professor of Schleswig-Holstein
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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 {{lang|de|Internationale Chorakademie Lübeck|italic=no}} (International Choral Academy Lübeck).
Career
Born in Michelstadt, Beck studied law at the Marburg University and Lausanne University. He studied conducting at the {{lang|de|Musikhochschule Frankfurt|italic=no}} with Helmuth Rilling. He founded and directed the {{lang|de|Marburger Vocalensemble|italic=no}} (Marburg Vocal Ensemble).
From 1981, Beck was intendant of the Bamberg Symphony, where he founded the choir {{lang|de|Chor der Bamberger Symphoniker|italic=no}} in 1983, and the instrumental ensemble Concerto Bamberg. From 1996 he was director of the sections orchestra and choir for the broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk. He was intendant of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival from 1999 to 2013. In 2013 he conducted with the festival choir and orchestra a charity concert of the President of Germany, Joachim Gauck, featuring Verdi's {{lang|it|Quattro pezzi sacri}} and Rossini's {{lang|la|Stabat Mater|italic=no}}. 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). He founded in 2015 a choral academy in Brazil, performing first Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. With the Lübeck academy, he conducted four of Bach's motets for the Rheingau Musik Festival at St. Stephan, Mainz on 27 August 2015.
He was awarded the {{lang|de|Bundesverdienstkreuz|italic=no}} in 1989, and was appointed honorary professor of Schleswig-Holstein in 2008.
References
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| url = http://www.allgemeine-zeitung.de/lokales/mainz/nachrichten-mainz/klangbrei-statt-bach-al-dente_16083169.htm
| title = Klangbrei statt "Bach al dente"
| newspaper = Allgemeine Zeitung
| date = 2 September 2015
| language = de
| access-date = 20 September 2015
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| url = http://www.abendblatt.de/kultur-live/article410185/Zur-Person-Rolf-Beck.html
| title = Zur Person: Rolf Beck
| newspaper = Hamburger Abendblatt
| date = 29 July 2006
| language = de
| access-date = 18 October 2014
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| url = http://www.chorakademie-luebeck.de/en/about/rolf-beck/
| title = Rolf Beck
| publisher = Internationale Chorakademie Lübeck
| access-date = 28 August 2015
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| url = http://www.bundespraesident.de/SharedDocs/Berichte/DE/Joachim-Gauck/2013/08/130727-Benefizkonzerte-Weimar-Luebeck.html
| title = Zur Person: Rolf Beck
| publisher = President of Germany
| date= 9 July 2013
| language = de
| access-date = 28 August 2015
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| url = http://www.shmf.de/de/Festival
| title = Das Festival
| publisher = Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
| language = de
| access-date = 18 October 2014
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Bundesanzeiger (in German), no. 151, p. 3869, 1989
| url = http://www.schleswig-holstein.de/DE/Fachinhalte/A/auszeichnungen/ehrenprofessur.html
| title = Auszeichnungen – Ehrentitel "Professorin" oder "Professor"
| publisher = Schleswig-Holstein
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| language = de
| access-date = 21 September 2015
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| url = http://www.mozarteum.org.br/chorakademie-lubeck-entrevista-rolf-beck-para-portal-mb/
| title = Inovadora e multicultural, a Chorakademie Lübeck traz destaques brasileiros
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| publisher = Mozarteum Brazil
| language = pt
| access-date = 21 September 2015
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| url = http://www.rheingau-musik-festival.de/bach-al-dente-rolf-beck-in-mainz-st-stephan,event.html
| title = Bach al dente
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| publisher = Rheingau Musik Festival
| year = 2015
| language = de
| access-date = 21 September 2015
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External links
- {{official website|URL=http://www.rolf-beck.com/index.php?page=home_en}}
- {{lang|de|[http://www.chorakademie-luebeck.de/en Internationale Chorakademie Lübeck]|italic=no}}
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Category:German male conductors (music)
Category:German choral conductors
Category:University of Marburg alumni
Category:University of Lausanne alumni
Category:Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts alumni
Category:Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Category:21st-century German conductors (music)