Vita

"Brillant evening, high-quality concert! The beauty of the versatile concert led by Ingmar Beck, a rich performance of the orchestra's sentiments and colors. Beck [...] has also managed to conjure up the noble sparkle of the Brahms' 1st Symphony, which burns from romantic passion and is filled with emotion" (Szabadsag Cluj)

Ingmar Beck is an internationally acclaimed conductor and winner of the Aspen Conducting Prize and the Robert J. Harth Conductor Prize at the Aspen Music Festival (USA), as well as the Audience Award winner at the Operetta Competition of the Leipzig Opera. He is currently Kapellmeister at the Landestheater Linz and is the founding conductor of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra "Concerto Sacro" and the Munich Baroque Orchestra "Asam Classical Soloists."

Beck regularly performs at renowned international venues, including the Hamburg State Opera, the Orchestre de Paris, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Opéra de Lyon, the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto, and the Bregenz Festival. He also performs with orchestras such as the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, and the Bonn Classical Philharmonic. He is particularly committed to exploring contemporary operatic material; In recent years, he has conducted eight opera premieres at the Hamburg State Opera, the Landestheater Linz, and with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra.

Beck was Assistant Conductor at the 2017 Aspen Music Festival (USA) and made his debut with the Vienna Radio Orchestra in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein in 2016. Further assistantships have taken him to the Châtelet Theatre in Paris and the Theater an der Wien, and in 2009 he made his Salzburg Festival debut. From 2012 to 2017, he was Artistic Director of the Klosterneuburg/Vienna City Choir. His musical mentors include Daniel Harding, Johannes Debus, Daniele Rustioni, Bernard Labadie, and Robert Spano.

Ingmar Beck began his musical career with the Augsburg Cathedral Boys' Choir. After completing his cello studies in Weimar with top marks, he continued his studies in orchestral conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Prof. Mark Stringer, graduating with distinction in 2016. He has also won prizes in international chamber music competitions as a cellist and piano accompanist. Beck has held scholarships from the Vienna Philharmonic, the Conductors' Forum of the German Music Council, the Richard Wagner Foundation, and the "Akademie Musiktheater heute" of the Deutsche Bank Foundation.

In the 2024/25 season, Ingmar Beck will take over the musical direction of the season premiere of Mozart's "Magic Flute" at the Landestheater Linz. He will also conduct the rarely performed opera "Die heilige Ente" by the ostracized composer Hans Gál, the baroque opera "I portentosi effetti della madre natura" by Giuseppe Scarlatti, and the world premiere of Helmut Jasbar's "Kinder der Nacht," directed by artistic director Hermann Schneider. Further highlights include performances of Janáček's "The Cunning Little Vixen," Puccini's "Madame Butterfly," and Lehár's operetta "Paganini." In June 2025, Beck will make his debut at the renowned styriarte festival in Graz.