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From March 16-18, 2018, Ingmar Beck conducted and directed the 160^th anniversary festival of Stadtchor Klosterneuburg. Beck served as the choir’s Artistic Director from 2012-2017, leading them to remarkable musical and artistic heights. Years of development and growth was celebrated through this final collaboration. The first concert boasted an eclectic night of German opera, including ensembles, overtures, and arias from such works as J. Strauss’ Night in Venice, Mozart’s The Magic Flute, La Clemenza di Tito, and Abduction from the Seraglio, Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel, Kienzl’s Der Evangeliemann, and Wagner’s Lohengrin and Die Meistersinger. The festival culminated with an emotionally-riveting Brahms Requiem, premiered 150 years ago.

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From December 2017 until January 2018 Ingmar Beck acted as Lothar Koenig's Assistant Conductor for "Der Kreidekreis" by Alexander von Zemlinsky (director: Richard Brunel) and overtook a majority of rehearsals in the first three weeks of production. The internationally-renowned cast included Ilse Eerens (Belgium), Nicola Beller-Carbone (Italy), Stephan Rügamer (State Opera Berlin), and Martin Winkler (State Opera Vienna).

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From November 29 to December 4, 2017, Ingmar Beck and mezzo-soprano Annette Lubosch toured Israel, giving a celebrated concert in the Austrian Hospice of Jerusalem where Ingmar Beck accompanied Lubosch on the piano. The two musicians lead a masterclass program for five days in Jerusalem, targeted at the healthy development of young singers. Beck and Lubasch also traveled to Palestine to lead orchestral and vocal workshops at the Barenboim Said Foundation.

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The Baroque Ensemble Asam Classical Soloists celebrates its 10 year anniversary with a concert on October 21 at 8 pm in Himmelfahrtskirche München-Sendling. The ensemble will perform the first work from their first concert "Exsultate, jubilate" (soprano: "ECHO Klassik" winner Marie-Sophie Pollak) and the Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola (Soloists: Verena-Maria Fitz, violin / Benjamin Beck, viola) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and the Farwell Symphony by Joseph Haydn. Tickets can be ordered per mail via tickets@asamclassical.de.

The Asam Classical Soloists were founded in 2007 by Ingmar Beck who is leading the ensemble playing the hapsichord. The repertoire of the ensemble is mainly based on works of the times of Baroque and Classic. In the last years the Asam Classical Soloists performed at Forum "Alte Musik" Fürstenfeld, in the Münchner Residenz and in the Himmelfahrt Church München-Sendling, including two concerts with the Augsburg Boys' Chorus.

Ingmar Beck was conducting the final concert of the huge Bavarian scholarship program klasse.im.puls with Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra in May. On the program of the concert, which was sold out for weeks, was the 9th symphony "New World" of Antonín Dvořák, a medley of Gershwin's Porgy & Bess, and a hymn of the Nuremberg composer Heinrich Hartl. The Bavarian TV (BR) documented the whole project in a video clip:

 The summer programm of the Aspen Music Festival 2017 is released. Additionally to his work as Assistant Conductor Ingmar Beck will conduct various concerts, including a symphony orchestra concert and two family concerts.

Both family concerts are contributed to the season theme "Enchantment". On July 20 Beck will conduct a musical poem of the German story of the "Musicians of Bremen" by the American composer Bernard Rogers. On August 17 "Dirty Beasts" of the English composer Benjamin Wallfish will be performed - a very colourful orchestra piece commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra in 2013, with poems of Roald Dahl.

As highlight of the summer Ingmar Beck will conduct the Aspen Philharmonic Orchestra on July 26. The program includes the world-famous "Scheherazade" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and the Piano Concerto No. 25 K. 503 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Ingmar Beck was awarded with the Aspen Conducting Prize 2016 by Robert Spano (Chefdirigent Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Chefdirigent Aspen Music Festival) in August 2016. This prize is the highest award for conductors at the Aspen Music Festival and is one of the most prestigeous awards for young conductors in USA. Ingmar Beck will be the official Assistant Conductor at the Aspen Music Festival 2017.

In August 2016 Ingmar Beck was awarded with a fellowship of the "Academy Music Theatre Today" of the Deutsche Bank Foundation. This 2-year-fellowship contents workshops at various opera houses in Europe and a new production at the State Opera Hamburg.