Film concert with Frank Strobel

A conductor whose international reputation is built on repertoire of unusual stylistic diversity, Frank Strobel has long been recognised as a leading figure in the space where film meets music. In particular, he has played a crucial role in bringing film concerts into leading opera houses and concert halls.

The 2024/25 season includes the premiere of Gance’s Napoléon epic in Paris, concerts tributing Ennio Morricone as well as the German premiere of Bram Stoker’s Dracula with music by Wojciech Kilar at the Film Festival Braunschweig.

His most important film projects include Nosferatu (2023), Ivan The Terrible (2016), J’accuse (2014), Metropolis (2010), Nibelungen (2010), Battleship Potemkin (2009), Rosenkavalier (2006), Romeo & Juliet (2006) and Alexander Nevsky (2003). He was a founding member of the Europäische FilmPhilharmonie in 2000, an institution dedicated to the artistic development of music and film in the concert hall. This has given rise to such ambitious projects as Matrix Live at London’s Royal Albert Hall.

He has conducted such orchestras as the London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Filarmonica della Scala, Staatskapelle Dresden, HR-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, as well as Seattle and Sydney Symphony. Frank Strobel held recently the position as Chief Conductor of the WDR Funkhausorchester.

Within his vast discography the series with film suites by Alfred Schnittke, to which Strobel retains the adaptation rights, were received to great critical acclaim. The fifth release of this series received an Opus Klassik Award in 2022.

Georg Streuber studied classical singing with Matthias Weichert at the Hochschule für Musik “Carl-Maria von Weber” in Dresden, where he was able to deepen his knowledge as a student in the lied classes of Ulrike Siedel and Olaf Bär as well as in masterclasses with guest lecturers such as Gerold Huber, Peter Schreier, Evelyn Herlitzius, Camilla Nylund among others. After graduating in 2013, Magdalena Hajossyová, Allison Oakes and since 2018 Verena Rein have been important mentors in his vocal development.

At the national competition “Jugend Musiziert” he was awarded prizes in the solo competition in 2005 and as a member of an a cappella ensemble in 2007. In 2011 he won 1st prize at the international Duschek Competition in Prague, and in 2012 he received a special prize for song interpretation at the Lions Singing Competition in Bad Endorf, Bavaria.

Since 2003, lieder recitals and oratorio performances have been the focus of his activities as a concert singer. He has worked with conductors such as Christian Kluttig, Peter Schreier, Georg Christoph Biller, Hermann Max and Robin Ticciati. Invitations to  recitals have taken him to several German cities, to the Netherlands and to Romania.

In 2007 he made his debut as Papageno in a Chemnitz studio production of Mozart’s “Magic Flute”. Guest engagements have taken him to opera theatres and festivals in Dresden, Berlin, Bad Hersfeld, Plauen/Zwickau and most recently to Chemnitz as Falke in “Die Fledermaus”.

Georg Streuber was an academist in the RIAS Chamber Choir in 2011 and has been engaged in the Rundfunkchor Berlin since 2012. He was also a member of the Bayreuth Festival Choir from 2012-18.

In recent years, Staatsoper Unter den Linden Children’s Choir has made a name for itself as an ensemble on the opera stage and in concert appearances in Germany and abroad. Repeated invitations to guest tours (to Dresden, Hamburg, Italy, France, Luxemburg, Poland, the Baltic States, and to Vietnam) and prizes at several competitions (including the gold medal at the international competition »Siauliai Cantat« in Lithuania, First Prize, Landeschorwettbewerb Berlin 2013, first prize at Deutscher Chorwettbewerb in Weimar 2014 and two gold medals at the international Choral Competition in Hoi An/Vietnam 2015) attest to the growing artistic quality of the choir, which has been under the direction of Vinzenz Weissenburger since 2007.

For some time now, the musical repertoire and the public presence of the chorus has been constantly expanding. Central are the chorus’ regular appearances on the stage at the Staatsoper in operas such as La Bohème, Un ballo in maschera, Tosca, Turandot, Boris Godunov, Pique Dame, Der Rosenkavalier and Carmen. In addition, the chorus also appears in its own concerts, with a cappella programs and a concert with the Staatskapelle Berlin once every season.

The chorus meets twice a week for rehearsal, and offers a thorough basic musical training for its young singers. Vocal training takes place with several experienced vocal teachers, who together with the choir conductor and his assistants work at improving the artistic standards. Recent concert tours have taken the chorus to Argentina, China and to the U.S.

The conductor and choirmaster Vinzenz Weissenburger works with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Gustavo Dudamel, Andris Nelsons and Sir Simon Rattle and conducts orchestras such as the MDR Symphony Orchestra Leipzig, the Staatskapelle Berlin and the Lautten Compagney in concerts and operas.

At the Staatsoper in the Schiller Theater, he conducted the workshop productions of “Puss in Boots” by César Cui, “Eisenhans!” by Ali N. Askin and Wolf-Ferrari’s “Cinderella” as well as the traditional Christmas concert with the Staatsoper’s children’s choir and the Staatskapelle Berlin since 2011. In Dresden, he conducted Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” in 2010 and Lortzing’s “Der Wildschütz” with the Neue Elbland Philharmonie in 2011. In June 2012, he made his debut at Theater Hof with Rossini’s “Il barbiere di Siviglia”.

He has conducted the children’s choir of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin since 2007 and has since developed it to such an extent that it won the gold medal at Siaulia Cantat in Lithuania in 2013 and first prize at the German Choir Competition in 2014. At the international choir competition in Hoi An (Vietnam), the children’s choir was awarded two gold medals and Vinzenz Weissenburger was awarded the Conductor’s Prize for outstanding achievement. In September 2015, he founded the youth chamber choir Junges Consortium Berlin, which won three gold medals at the Grand Prix of Nations in 2017. Here, he also received a special prize for “excellent conducting”. In November 2016, he took over the artistic direction of the Junges Ensemble Berlin choir.