- Jun Märkl
Jun Märkl (born 11 February 1959,
Munich ) is a German conductor, the son of a German violinist father and a Japanese pianist mother. He studiedpiano and theviolin as a youth. Beginning in 1978, at the Musikhochschule Hannover, he continued his piano and violin studies, and also began to study conducting. He later attended theUniversity of Michigan , where his mentors included Gustav Meier. He was also a pupil ofSergiu Celibidache , and he later won a conducting stipend toTanglewood , where he was under the tutelage ofLeonard Bernstein andSeiji Ozawa . [cite news | url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE3DD1730F937A3575BC0A961948260 | title=Perle's 'Songs' At Tanglewood Festival | publisher="New York Times" | author=John Rockwell | date=4 August 1987 | accessdate=2007-09-08]From 1991 to 1994, Märkl served as Music Director of the Saarländischen Staatstheaters (Saarland State Theatre) in Saarbrücken. From 1994 to 2000, he was "Generalmusikdirector" and director of opera at the Mannheim National Theatre. In the US, he made his
Metropolitan Opera conducting debut in February 1999 with "Il trovatore ", [cite news | url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CEEDB123AF936A25751C0A96F958260 | title=The Met Takes Up A Verdian Challenge | publisher="New York Times" | author=Anthony Tommasini | date=15 February 1999 | accessdate=2007-09-08] and returned in December 2000 with "Turandot ". [cite news | url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A05E0DC113FF937A25751C1A9669C8B63 | title=A Soprano Put to the Test Shifts in Tone and Intensity | publisher="New York Times" | author=Anthony Tommasini | date=14 December 2000 | accessdate=2007-09-08]In 2005, Märkl began his tenure as music director of the Orchestre National de Lyon. In September 2007, he became principal conductor of the MDR Symphony Orchestra in Leipzig.
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External links
* [http://www.mdr.de/klangkoerper/2847634.html MDR German language biography of Jun Märkl]
* [http://www.intermusica.co.uk/markl Intermusica agency biography of Jun Märkl]
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