Conductor Rubén Dubrovsky will take over the musical direction of a new production of Vivaldi’s Orlando Furioso at Oper Bonn (Premiere: 19. October 2008) this season. This production will open a Vivaldi-Cycle at the opera-house in Bonn. Later he will make his debut at one of the most prestigious opera-houses in Spain: the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia Valencia invited him to conduct the new production of Martin y Soler’s opera Arbore di Diana (Premiere: 21. December 2008). Ruben Dubrovsky will also appear regularly at the Wiener Musikverein together with his Ensemble, the Vienna Bachconsort. In October 2008 he can be heared together with mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink in a program of Lamento-scorings by Monteverdi, Purcell and Buxtehude.

 

Rubén Dubrovsky is the founder of the Bach Consort Wien, which under his leadership soon became one of the leading baroque ensembles in Austria. The press praised him for his “conceptual clarity” as well as his “sweeping virtuosity”.

 

Invitations with the Bach Consort Wien have thus far led him to the Brucknerhaus Linz, the Palau de la Música in Barcelona, the Lisinsky Saal Zagreb, the Festival RheinVokal, Festival für Alte Musik St. Pölten, Donau Festival, and many more. Numerous concerts have been recorded by the Österreichischer Rundfunk, Südwestfunk and Catalunya Música.

 

Rubén Dubrovsky enjoys close collaborations with renowned soloists such as Bernarda Fink, Emma Kirkby, Verónica Cangemi, Markus Schäfer, Carlos Mena, Florian Boesch, Daniel Johannsen, Georg Nigl and Christophe Coin.

 

Rubén Dubrovsky is not only an expert for baroque music. In November 2007 he conducted the production Lichtspuren with music by Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Stravinsky, Shostakovich und Arvo Pärt. It was performed at theatres such as the Theater Winterthur, the Staatstheater Darmstadt, Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Schlosstheater Fulda and the Lucent Danstheater Den Haag.

 

His intensive teaching activities include master-classes for instrumentalists, singers and ensemble conductors at the Austria Barock Akademie as well as the Tchaikovsky-Conservatory Moscow, the Gnessin-Academy Moscow, the Scuola Civica Milan, the University of Belgrade and the Conservatory Palma. He was invited to work as a conductor with the orchestra of the Vienna Conservatory and to offer modern instrumentalists experience in performing ancient music. He was also a member of the jury at both the Herbert-von-Karajan-Centrum and the Fidelio-Competition.

 

As a cellist, Rubén Dubrovsky has performed throughout Europe, giving solo concerts of Johann Sebastian Bach’s cello suites. The Musikkollegium Winterthur very kindly sponsored his rare violoncello by Jacobus Stainer from the year 1673.

 

Rubén Dubrovsky was born in 1968, the son of a Polish-Italian artists’ family in Buenos Aires. He began his studies at the Conservatorio Nacional in Buenos Aires, and continued from 1990 to 1995 at the Musikhochschule Detmold. Important augmentations to his education include violoncello courses with Bernhard Greenhouse, chamber music with Eberhard Feltz and conductorship with Mario de Rose.

 

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