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Biography

Hartmut Haenchen's high intellect and musical integrity have secured his place in the forefront of musical life.
Born in Dresden, Hartmut Haenchen has been a member of the Kreuzchor Dresden. Following his studies at the local conservatory and as a trainee for Pierre Boulez and Herbert von Karajan, as well as consecutive studies with Arvid Jansons and Evgeni Mrawinski, he became the conductor of the Robert-Franz-Singakademie and the Staatskapelle Halle.

Engagements at medium houses were quickly followed by his debut at the State Opera Berlin with Boris Godunow and the appointment as conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic from 1973 until 1976. During this period he appeared as a permanent visitor of the Semperoper Dresden. From 1976 until 1979 he led the Mecklenburgische Staatskappel Schwerin, as well as the Staatstheater, followed by a time as freelance artist.
In 1986 he moved to the Netherlands and was appointed Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Philharmonic and Chamber orchestras, and Music Director of Dutch National Opera, where he conducted a broad repertoire from Gluck’s Alceste to B.A. Zimmermann’s Die Soldaten.
Furthermore, he has been on the conductor’s stand of the Chamber orchestra Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach for almost 35 years. (1980-2014).

Guest engagements led him to renowned houses, such as the Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Theater an der Wien, Opéra National de Paris, Bayerische Staatsoper München, the three opera houses in Berlin, Théâtre Royale de la Monnaie Brussels, Teatro Real de Madrid, LA Opera, New National Theatre Tokio, as well as the Bayreuth Festival, Warsaw Autumn and Kirishima Festival in Japan.
He worked together with the world’s greatest orchestras including the Berlin and Munich Philharmonics, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, all great orchestras of Paris, such as the Orchestre de Paris and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre symphonique de la Monnaie Brussels, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Rome, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, Royal Danish Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and Japan Philharmonic Orchestra.

Engagements in the season 2021/22 lead him i.a. to the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Opéra de Paris, as well as to Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and the BOZAR in Brussels.

In the 22/23 season, Haenchen will conduct symphony concerts at the Staatsorchester Halle with Nederlands Philhalmonisch Orkest at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and further concerts at La Fenice in Venice and with the Belgian National Orchestra. Furthermore, he is conducting Salome in the Teatro Pertuzelli in Bari.

Hartmut Haenchen has made over 130 recordings with different orchestras for Berlin Classics, Capriccio, OpusArte, Pentatone, Philips, Sony Classical, Vanguard and ICA Classics. These include a substantial discography with his Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. His DVD of Mahler’s Symphony No.6 (Orchestre symphonique de la Monnaie / ICA Classics) was awarded a Diapason d’Or. He is also the author of many books on music.
Besides a number of awards, Hartmut Haenchen was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit of the Republic of Germany, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to music and the arts.

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Artist Website

www.haenchen.net

Management

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Artist Manager

Boris Orlob
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Repertoire

Repertoire Opera

Bartók	Bluebeard's Castle
Beethoven	Fidelio
Berg	Lulu
	Wozzeck
Berlioz	La Damnation de Faust
Bizet	Carmen
Dessau	Die Verurteilung des Lukullus
Gluck	Alceste
	Iphigénie en Aulide
	Iphigénie en Tauride
	Orfeo ed Euridice (Vienna and Paris Version)
Goldmann	Hot
Handel	Giustino
Humperdinck	Hansel and Gretel
Janácek	From the House of the Dead
Leoncavallo	Pagliacci
Mascagni	Cavalleria Rusticana
Matthus	Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke (UA)
Mozart	Bastien et Bastienne
	Così fan tutte
	Der Schauspieldirektor
	Die Entführung aus dem Serail
	Die Zauberflöte
	Don Giovanni
	Idomeneo
	La Clemenza di Tito
	Le nozze di Figaro
	Mitridate
Mussorgsky	Boris Godunov
	Khovanshchina
Orff	Carmina Burana
Paisiello	IL Babriere di Siviglia
Puccini	La Bohème
Reimann	Lear
Saint-Saens	Samson et Dalila
Shostakovich	The Nose
	Lady Macbeth of Mzensk
Smetana	The Bartered Bride
Strauss, J.	Die Fledermaus
Strauss, R.	Ariadne auf Naxos
	Capriccio
	Daphne
	Der Rosenkavalier
	Die Frau ohne Schatten
	Die Liebe der Danae
	Elektra
	Salome
Szymanowski	Król Roger
Telemann	Pimpinone
Tchaikovsky	Eugene Onegin
	Mazeppa
Verdi	Don Carlo
	Otello
Wagner	Faust Ouverture
	Liebesmahl der Apostel
	Das Rheingold
	Der fliegende Holländer
	Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
	Die Walküre
	Götterdämmerung
	Lohengrin
	Parsifal
	Siegfried
	Tannhäuser
	Tristan und Isolde
Weber	Abu Hassan
	Der Freischütz
	Euryanthe
	Oberon
	Silvana
Wolf	Der Corregidor
Zimmermann	Die Soldaten

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Hartmut Haenchen's repertoire of symphonic and chamber music ranges from the baroque to the contemporary. Please follow the links below to find the complete repertoire:
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Chamber Orchestra - Repertoire

News

Brahms German Requiem with the NNO

After successful concerts of Bruckner's 8th Symphony with the BNO in Brussels, Hartmut Haenchen returns to the NNO, where he will work with baritone Domen Krizaj for the first time. From the 1st of February 2024, Brahms' German Requiem will be performed there under the direction of Hartmut Haenchen and the baritone part of Domen Krizaj.
The soprano part will be sung by Ying Fang.

Further information and performance dates can be found at:

www.nno.nu

Reason to celebrate

Hartmut Haenchen conducts the Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest with Bruckner 7 and works of Wagner and Larcher at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw on March 18 and 20 and at Tivoli Vredenburg on March 19, 2023.

There are various reasons for the artist to celebrate these concerts.

On the occasion of this series of concerts the Philharmonisch Orkest appoints him honorary conductor. Following the second concert at the Concertgebouw on March 20 Hartmut will celebrate into his 80th birthday with the orchestra, his friends and guests. We wish him all the best, good health and joy in his musical projects!