Biography
Robin Engelen studied conducting with Wolf-Dieter Hauschild and Günter Wand at Karlsruhe Conservatory. He assisted conductors such as Philippe Auguin, Thomas Hengelbrock and Stefan Soltesz.He was engaged as first conductor and assistant of Lothar Zagrosek at Stuttgart State Opera and later as first conductor and deputy music director at Theater Bonn. He conducted important repertoire works and regularly conducted new productions, including Carmen, La Sonnambula, Il Trovatore, Norma, and Il Barbiere di Siviglia.
Engelen gave concerts both as pianist and conductor with orchestras such as Philharmonisches Orchester Südwestfalen, the Brandenburg and Düsseldorf Symphonic Orchestras, Staatsorchester Halle, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Stuttgart Philharmonics. He conducted the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Chamber Orchestra C.P.E. Bach Berlin as well as the orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin. From 1993 to 2003, he was engaged as musical director of the ensemble “Klangwerk”. In 2001, the ensemble Het Collektief appointed him their Principal Guest Conductor.
Furthermore, Engelen worked at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, leading the first show of the revised version of Eötvös` Radames at the international Schönberg-week in Brussels and at the Russian Japanese culture days in Dornach. In 2007, he was the musical director of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the festivities of the 150 years existence of the conservatory Stuttgart and gave his debut in the U.S. at the Oregon Bach Festival. Together with Helmuth Rilling, he also directed Britten’s War Requiem. As conductor of the Kammerorchester Stuttgart, he toured through Korea, Italy and Turkey.
Engelen conducted concerts at Concertgebouw Amsterdam, with the Het Collectief in Sao Paulo, Lima, Paris, and London, as well as at the festivals Ars Musica in Brussels and Antwerp, and de Saintes in France. Most recently, conducting engagements led him to the Opera Leipzig and the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock.
Since season 2015/16 Robin Engelen is first conductor and deputy music director at Opera Graz. Projects of the season, besides productions in Graz of Il barbiere di Siviglia, Luisa Miller and The Greek Passion by the composer Bohuslav Martinu, included Don Giovanni in Vladivostok, Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, Falstaff at Volkstheater Rostock, and Das Liebesverbot at the Opera Leipzig.
In the following season, Engelen led the new production of Norma as well as the two very successful and highly acclaimed productions of Tristan und Isolde and Roméo et Juliette in Graz.
In the season 2017/18 his projects in Graz included the new productions of Il trovatore and Eugene Onegin as well as the musical ‘Ragtime’ with music by Stephen Flaherty and the ballet ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ by Jörg Weinöhl. In addition, he conducted the ballet night ‚Don Juan / Mozart à deux‘ with music by Gluck and Mozart at Opera Leipzig.
Engagements in season 2018/19 include the new productions Martha and Szymanowski’s Król Roger at Opera Graz.
Management
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Boris Orlob
Managing Director
boris@orlob.net
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Ingunn Sighvatsdóttir
Artist Manager
ingunn@orlob.net
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Repertoire
Repertoire Concert
Adams, John | Chamber Symphony |
Bach, J. S. | Brandenburg Concerti |
Concerti | |
Ouvertures | |
Bartók, Bela | Concerto for orchestra |
Divertimento | |
Piano Concerto No 3 | |
Romanian Folk Dances | |
Violin Concerto No 2 | |
Beethoven, L. v. | Choral Fantasy |
Ouvertures | |
Piano Concerti | |
Symphonies 1- 9 | |
Tripelconcerto | |
Violin Concerto | |
Berg, Alban | Chamber Concerto |
Seven Early Songs | |
Bernstein, Leonard | Three Meditations from Mass |
Bizet, Georges | Carmen - Suite |
L'Arlesienne - Suite | |
Brahms, Johannes | Academic Festival Ourverture |
Serenades | |
Symphonies 1 - 4 | |
Britten, Benjamin | Four Sea Interludes |
Les Illuminations | |
Passacaglia | |
Serenade | |
War Requiem | |
Bruckner, Anton | Symphonies 1 - 9 |
Charpentier, M. A. | Le Malade imaginaire |
Musiques du Roi | |
Copland, Aaron | Appalachian Spring |
Billy the Kid | |
Clarinet Concerto | |
Fanfare | |
Debussy, Claude | La mer |
Nocturnes | |
Prelude à l'après midi d'un faune | |
Dvorák, Antonín | Serenade |
Symphonies 6 - 9 | |
Elgar, Edward | The Wand of Youth |
Grieg, Edvard | Peer Gynt Suites |
Piano Concerto | |
Gubaidulina, Sofia | Seven Words |
Haydn, Joseph | Concerti |
Symphonies | |
Hindemith, Paul | Die Harmonie der Welt |
Horn Concerto | |
Mathis der Maler | |
Symphony in E-Flat | |
Honegger, Arthur | Le Roi David |
Pastorale d'Été | |
Symphonies No 2, 3, 4 | |
Händel, G. Fr. | Concerti grossi |
Music for the Royal Fireworks | |
Water Music | |
Ibert, Jacques | Flute Concerto |
Jolivet, André | Flute Concerto |
Ligeti, György | Chamber Concerto |
Concerti for Violoncello, Piano & Violin | |
Ramifications | |
Lutoslawski, Witold | Concerto for Orchestra |
Funeral Music in memoriam Béla Bartók | |
Mahler, Gustav | Das Klagende Lied |
Kindertotenlieder | |
Songs of Des Knaben Wunderhorn | |
Mendelssohn, Felix | Incidental Music for Midsummer Night's Dream |
Ourvertures | |
Symphonies No 3, 4 | |
Messiaen, Olivier | Éclairs sur l'Au-delà |
Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum | |
Milhaud, Darius | La création du monde |
Le Boeuf sur le toit | |
Mozart, W. A. | Divertimenti |
Piano Concerti | |
Requiem | |
Serenades | |
Violin Concerto | |
Symphonies | |
Nielsen, Carl | Clarinet Concerto |
Symphonies No 4, 5, 6 | |
Poulenc, Francis | Piano Concerto |
Sinfonietta | |
Rachmaninov, Sergej | Symphonies No 2, 3 |
Symphonic Dances | |
Rihm, Wolfgang | Abgesangsszenen |
Trauermusiken In Memoriam Luigi Nono | |
Saint-Saens, C. | Danse macabre |
Le Carnival des Animeaux | |
Schostakowitsch, D. | Cello Concerti No 1 & 2 |
Chamber Symphonies | |
Symphonies | |
Violin Concerto No. 2 | |
Schubert, Franz | Rosamunde Ballet Music |
Symphonies 1 - 7 | |
Schumann, Robert | Piano Concerto |
Symphonies 1 -4 | |
Schönberg, Arnold | Chamber Symphony |
Pierrot lunaire | |
Suite op. 29 | |
Transfigured Night | |
Sibelius, Jean | Symphonies No 1, 3, 6, 7 |
Tone Poems | |
Strauss, Richard | Also sprach Zarathustra |
Concerto for Oboe and Bassoon | |
Don Juan | |
Four Last Songs | |
Till Eulenspiegel | |
Strauß, Johann | Dances |
Ouvertures | |
Walztes | |
Stravinsky, Igor | Firebird |
L'histoire du soldat | |
Petrushka | |
Pulcinella | |
Symphonies pour vent instruments | |
Tango | |
Three Pieces for String Orchestra | |
Torke, Michael | Ecstatic Orange |
Tschaikovsky, Peter | Ballet Suites |
Symphonies No 4, 5, 6 | |
Vivaldi, Antonio | Four Seasons |
Wagner, Richard | Preludes and Interludes |
Walton, William | Variations on a Theme by Hindemith |
Webern, Anton | Fünf Stücke für Streichorchester |
Musikalisches Opfer (Bach) | |
Symphony |
Repertoire Opera
Beethoven | Fidelio |
Bellini | La Sonnambula |
Norma | |
Berg | Lulu |
Wozzeck | |
Bizet | Carmen |
Busoni | Doktor Faust |
Charpentier | Le Malade imaginaire |
Délibes | Lakmé |
Flotow | Martha |
Humperdinck | Hansel and Gretel |
Janacek | The Makropoulos Affair |
Kraus | Aeneas in Karthago |
Lortzing | Der Wildschütz |
Mozart | Così fan tutte |
Die Entführung aus dem Serail | |
Die Zauberflöte | |
Don Giovanni | |
Idomeneo | |
La finta giardiniera | |
Le nozze di Figaro | |
Nicolai | Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor |
Nono | Intolleranza 1960 |
Puccini | La Bohème |
Tosca | |
Turandot | |
Rossini | Il barbiere di Siviglia |
Schmidt | Notre Dame |
Schreker | Der ferne Klang |
Die Gezeichneten | |
Schönberg | Moses und Aron |
Pierrot lunaire | |
Smetana | The Bartered Bride |
Strauss, R. | Ariadne auf Naxos |
Der Rosenkavalier | |
Die Frau ohne Schatten | |
Elektra | |
Salome | |
Strauß, J. | Die Fledermaus |
Szymanowski | Król Roger |
Tchaikovsky | Eugene Onegin |
Verdi | Don Carlo |
Falstaff | |
Il Trovatore | |
La Traviata | |
Otello | |
Rigoletto | |
Wagner | Das Rheingold |
Der fliegende Holländer | |
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg | |
Die Walküre | |
Götterdämmerung | |
Lohengrin | |
Parsifal | |
Rienzi | |
Siegfried | |
Tannhäuser | |
Tristan und Isolde | |
Weber | Freischütz |
Media
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Press
Eugen Onegin / Oper Graz / 09.02.18 / deropernfreund.de
"verstand es [...], die musikalische Spannung wunderbar aufzubauen"
Norma / Oper Graz / 08.05.17 / meinbezirk.at
"Das Grazer Philharmonische Orchester unter der musikalischen Leitung von Robin Engelen bringen Vincenzo Bellini's Klänge einfühlsam unter das Publikum"
Tristan und Isolde und Roméo et Juliette (Gounod) / Oper Graz / 08.11.16 / pressreader.com (Salzburger Nachrichten)
"da in einer nicht physischen Meisterleistung Robin Engelen beide Abende mit Spannkraft dirigierte"
Roméo et Juliette (Gounod) / Oper Graz / 05.11.16 / bachtrack.com
"schien auch mit den Sängern regelrecht mitzuatmen, wodurch die Balance zwischen Bühne und Orchestergraben zu jedem Zeitpunkt ideal war"
Das Liebesverbot / Oper Leipzig / 20.05.16 / bachtrack.com
"led the Gewandhaus Orchestra with exciting momentum and luxurious sound"
Falstaff / Volkstheater Rostock / 02.05.16 / Ostsee Zeitung
"begleitet vom präzisen und witzigen Spiel der Norddeutschen Philharmonie unter Robin Engelen"