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Anthony Bramall (born 1957) is a British conductor.


Career

Born in London, Bramall studied singing at the
Guildhall School of Music and Drama The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is a conservatoire and drama school located in the City of London, United Kingdom. Established in 1880, the school offers undergraduate and postgraduate training in all aspects of classical music and jazz ...
and subsequently completed postgraduate studies in conducting there with Maestro Vilem Tausky. At the same time he was musical director of the Southend Symphony Orchestra and the New Westminster Chorus. In 1981, he became assistant to the general music director of the Stadttheater Pforzheim. In 1984, as part of the 3rd International Hans Swarowsky Conducting Competition Vienna, he was awarded the special prize for the interpretation of 20th century music. In 1987, he made his debut with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra at the
Vienna Konzerthaus The Konzerthaus is a concert hall located in Vienna, Austria, which opened in 1913. It is situated in the third district just at the edge of the first district in Vienna. Since it was founded it has always tried to emphasise both traditional and ...
. In 1985, he was Kapellmeister at the Städtische Bühnen Augsburg. From 1986 to 1989, he was study director and assistant to Bruno Weil at the Theater Augsburg. In 1989, he went to the
Landestheater Coburg Landestheater Coburg (Coburg State Theatre) is a medium-sized three-division (opera / operetta, drama, ballet) theatre in Coburg, Bavaria, Germany. Located on , a central square, the Neoclassical building has 550 seats. In 2008, the theatre ...
as 1st Kapellmeister. In 1990, he received an engagement as Kapellmeister and later became 1st Kapellmeister at the Staatstheater Hannover in Lower Saxony. There he cultivated a close collaboration with the
NDR Symphony Orchestra The NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra (german: NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester) is a German radio orchestra. Affiliated with the '' Norddeutscher Rundfunk'' (NDR; North German Broadcasting), the orchestra is based at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, G ...
in Hanover. In 1995, Bramall became general music director at the Theater Krefeld und Mönchengladbach. From 2002 to 2008 he was general music director at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. From 2008 to 2011, he was professor of the conducting class for
music theatre Music theatre is a performance genre that emerged over the course of the 20th century, in opposition to more conventional genres like opera and musical theatre. The term came to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s to describe an avant-garde approac ...
at the Musikhochschule Weimar. At the beginning of the 2011/12 season, Bramall became permanent guest conductor at the
Leipzig Opera The Leipzig Opera (in German: ) is an opera house and opera company located at the Augustusplatz and the Inner City Ring Road at its east side in Leipzig's district Mitte, Germany. History Performances of opera in Leipzig trace back to Sing ...
. Since September 2017, he has been chief conductor of the
Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz The Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz (''State Theatre at Gärtnerplatz''), commonly called the Gärtnerplatztheater, is an opera house and opera company in Munich. (The "Gärtnerplatz" is an urban square in the borough Ludwigsvorstadt-Isarvorstadt.) ...
, Munich.


Guest engagements

Guest engagements have taken him to the
Bayerische Staatsoper The Bayerische Staatsoper is a German opera company based in Munich. Its main venue is the Nationaltheater München, and its orchestra the Bayerische Staatsorchester. History The parent ensemble of the company was founded in 1653, under Ele ...
Munich, the
Semperoper The Semperoper () is the opera house of the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden (Saxon State Opera) and the concert hall of the Staatskapelle Dresden (Saxon State Orchestra). It is also home to the Semperoper Ballett. The building is located on the ...
Dresden (including musical direction of the new productions ''
La Cenerentola ' ('' Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant'') is an operatic ''dramma giocoso'' in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was written by Jacopo Ferretti, based on the libretti written by Charles-Guillaume Étienne for the opera ''Cendrillon'' ...
'' and '' Madama Butterfly''), the
Staatsoper Hannover Hanover State Opera (german: Staatsoper Hannover) is an opera company in Hanover, the state capital of Lower Saxony, Germany. The company is resident in the Hanover Opera House (), and is part of a publicly-funded umbrella performing arts organ ...
, the
Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz The Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz (''State Theatre at Gärtnerplatz''), commonly called the Gärtnerplatztheater, is an opera house and opera company in Munich. (The "Gärtnerplatz" is an urban square in the borough Ludwigsvorstadt-Isarvorstadt.) ...
Munich, the RIAS Radio Orchestra Berlin. He has also appeared as a guest conductor in Gothenburg, Bonn, Darmstadt, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Hanover, Karlsruhe, Wiesbaden, Bratislava, Bucharest, Poznan, as well as at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, with the
Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra The , also known as Tokyō (都響), is one of the representative symphony orchestras of Japan. The Orchestra was founded in 1965 by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, to commemorate the Tokyo Olympics (1964 Summer Olympics). Currently Kazushi ...
Japan, in Mexico City and in the US.


Recordings

Bramall recorded three CDs with the Slovak Philharmonic and the Slovak Radio Orchestra, followed by radio recordings with the RIAS Orchestra Berlin.Anthony Bramall
on Primephonic * Handel, ''
Israel in Egypt ''Israel in Egypt'', HWV 54, is a biblical oratorio by the composer George Frideric Handel. Most scholars believe the libretto was prepared by Charles Jennens, who also compiled the biblical texts for Handel's '' Messiah''. It is composed ...
'', Orchester der Deutschen Händel Solisten * Mahler, '' Symphony No. 8'' with the Badischen Staatskapelle


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Leipzig Opera The Leipzig Opera (in German: ) is an opera house and opera company located at the Augustusplatz and the Inner City Ring Road at its east side in Leipzig's district Mitte, Germany. History Performances of opera in Leipzig trace back to Sing ...
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bramall, Anthony British conductors (music) 1957 births Living people Musicians from London