Frank Strobel
Frank Strobel (born in 1966 in Munich) is a German conductor known for premieres and performances of works by composers Sergei Prokofiev, Franz Schreker and Siegfried Wagner. He is authorized arranger and editor of works by the composer Alfred Schnittke and since 2001 has helped this composer built a reputation as a film composer in the German-speaking world. In addition, Strobel has been a pioneer in the interdisciplinary field of film and music for many years and is one of the protagonists of the "Film in concert" movement.[1]
Life
Having grown up in the environment of the cinema of his parents, Strobel came into contact with music at an early age. He learned to be a
He had a special artistic relationship with
Until 1998 he was chief conductor of the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg. Since 2000 he has headed the European Film Philharmonic[2] and is also artistic advisor to the silent film programme of ZDF/ARTE.
In the years after 2000, together with the RSB, he recorded several pieces by Schnittke, which he had edited at his request and presented to the public for the first time. In 2003 and 2004 he had great success in Berlin and Moscow with the concert to the film Alexander Nevsky based on the music of Sergei Prokofiev, which he performed again with the RSB. Here, too, it was a premiere edited by Strobel. He reconstructed the original score and reassembled it. In November 2004, Strobel received Russia's highest civilian award in the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
In 2006 the film
His conducting of the RSB at the world premiere of the reconstructed version of Metropolis on February 12, 2012 by the Berliner Philharmoniker received an outstanding media response. Friedrichstadt-Palast, where he also premiered Fritz Lang's film Der müde Tod in the 2006 digitally restored version with the new film music by Cornelius Schwehr commissioned by ZDF/ARTE.[3]
Strobel also works for new cinema and television films, conducting leading European orchestras such as those in the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as radio and record releases. The film concerts of the Hamburger Symphoniker in the Laeiszhalle under Strobel, with which he is touring Germany under the banner of the private radio station Klassikradio, are legendary. Strobel is a globetrotter who has travelled throughout Europe, parts of North, Central and South America and Asia through his music.
In 2020, he conducted, with the Orchestre National de Lyon the original soundtrack of Kaamelott: The First Chapter, a French movie released in July 2021 and directed by Alexandre Astier, who also wrote the soundtrack.
Sources
- Frank Strobel – Der Dirigent, ein Einzeltäter. Interview with S. Ilona Rieke. In Cinema Musica. Bremen 2006, issue 3 (January), p. 24–28. ISSN 1861-5309
References
- ^ Europäische Film Philharmonie
- ^ European Film Philharmonic
- ^ nmz (3 February 2016)