Biography

Previously, Beck served as Kapellmeister at the Landestheater Linz, where he developed an exceptionally broad operatic repertoire within just a few years. He conducted premieres of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Handel’s Rinaldo and Giuseppe Scarlatti’s I portentosi effetti della madre natura, as well as the world premiere of Reinhard Febel’s Benjamin Button. He also conducted numerous repertoire performances, including Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, Korngold’s Die tote Stadt, Weber’s Der Freischütz, Beethoven’s Fidelio, works by Leoš Janáček and other major operas from the German-language and Italian repertoires. In total, he has conducted ten operatic world premieres at venues including the Hamburg State Opera and the Landestheater Linz, as well as with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra.

As a guest conductor, Ingmar Beck has worked with renowned opera houses and orchestras throughout Europe and North America. His engagements have taken him to the Hamburg State Opera, the Opéra de Lyon, the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto and the Bregenz Festival, among others. He has conducted orchestras including the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, the Klassische Philharmonie Bonn, recreation – Großes Orchester Graz, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre de Paris.

Beck has received several awards in recognition of his artistic achievements. He was awarded both the Aspen Conducting Prize and the Robert J. Harth Conductor Prize at the Aspen Music Festival in the United States and won the Audience Prize at the Leipzig Opera’s operetta competition.