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Helge Dorsch

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Helge Dorsch was born in Penzberg, Germany.
He studied cocducting, piano and composition at the Music Academy in Munich.
In addition, he completed several summer master courses with Professor Hans Swarowsky in Ossiach and Vienna.
His career began with a position as repetiteur at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. He gained more experience as an assistant to conductors such as Claudio Abbado and Riccardo Muti at the Music Festivals in Salzburg, Bayreuth and Bregenz, where he later was appointed Head of Music Staff.

Since then, various engagements have taken Helge Dorsch around the world, to places including Hamburg, Berlin, Köln, Bonn, Essen, Düsseldorf, Köln, Mannheim, Helsinki, Reykjavik, Tehran, Ankara, Istanbul, Budapest, Bucarest, Moscow, Minsk, Riga, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Barcelona, Rome, Venice, Torino, Reggio nell’Emilia, Bologna, Catania, Cagliari, Nizza, Paris (Opéra Bastille and Opéra Garnier), as well as to the USA, South America and to many cities in China.

At the age of only 28, he was appointed to a professorship at the State Music Conservatory in Detmold/Germany.
2003, he was appointed to a professorship at the Robert-Schumann State Music Conservatory in Düsseldorf/Germany.
In 1997/98 he worked as a Guest Professor at the State Music Academy in Munich, the same Music Academy where ha had studied.
He also worked as a Guest Professor at the State Conservatory “Franz Liszt” in Weimar.
In 2006, he was appointed to a professorship at the State Music Conservatory “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin.

He has drawn attention through conducting appearances in Munich (The Merry Wives of Windsor at the newly-opened Prinzregententheater), then opening the 1998/99 concert season of the Tchaikovsky Radio Symphony Orchestra in Moscow,  afterwards in Budapest with a double debut (State Opera and Erkel Theatre), in Shanghai also with a double debut (Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and Shanghai Opera House).

Furthermore he conducted Symphony- and New-Year’s concerts in China (Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang, Harbin). and concerts and opera productions in New Jersey/USA.

In addition, he conducted New-Year’s concerts in Germany, USA, Italy and China including a Gala Concert with Katia Ricciarelli, Franco Bonisolli in Hamburg.

Since 1998, Helge Dorsch has been the CHIEF CONDUCTOR of the Loreley Festival in Germany. Under the auspices of this festival, founded in 1997, he has celebrated
great successes conducting Fidelio (1997), Carmen (1998), Der Freischütz (1999), Die Zauberflöte (2000), Nabucco (2001).and La Traviata (2002).

In 2000, he was appointed PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR of the Lyric Opera of New Jersey, USA, where he began his tenure with Il Trovatore in March, 2000.

Since 2006, he has also worked as the Head of Musical Studies for various German opera productions at the Opéra Bastille.

In 2008, he conducted a Gala Concert at the Grand National Theatre in Beijing on occasion of the opening of the Olympic Games.

In 2009, he prepared Alban Bergs“Wozzeck” at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow. In 2010, he was invited by Valery Gergiev for a Masterclass at the Mariinsky Theater St. Petersburg. 
He held Masterclasses at the conservatories in Lucca (Accademia di Montegral) and Mantova/Italy, Rimini/Italy (Instituto Superiore di Studi Musicali G. Lettimi) as wall as in Buenos Aires/Argentina (IUNA, Instituto Universitario Nacional de Arte), followed by the Tyrolian Winter-Festival 2014/15 and an engagement at the Teatro Colon/ Instituto Superior de Arte, also in Buenos Aires.

Daniel Barenboim has contracted him for a Masterclass at the Opera Studio of the Staatsoper Berlin unter den Linden, where he has been reinvited five times so far.
In 2015, he is also engaged at the Tyrolian Summer Festival; followed by a Tour of China with the same Festival including Peking and Shanghai.

In 2016, he was appointed CHIEF CONDUCTOR of the “New Opera of Peking” (Laiyin Opera), where he began his tenure with New Productions of “La Traviata” and “Turandot”.

In 2018, he was additionally appointed CHIEF CONDUCTOR and MUSIC DIRECTOR of the Opera Festival Buenos Aires, where he so far has conducted opera productions of Turandot, Tosca, Don Giovanni, Otello and various Symphony Concerts.
In 2023, he will give his debut at the Vienna Staatsoper.

As an accompanist for Lieder recitals he has worked with singers such as Hermann Prey, Luciano Pavarotti, Jose Carreras, Katia Ricciarelli, James King, Francisco Araiza, Edith Mathis, Karl Ridderbusch, Oskar Hillebrandt, Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Jon F. West, Ortrun Wenkel, Kurt Moll and many others.

Helge Dorsch has been praised in the international press not only for his detailed and brilliant interpretations, but also for his enthusiastic, temperamental and expressive musicianship, which lends each score new brilliance and fresh élan.

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