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Biography
Frank Strobel
Conductor
www.frankstrobel.de
With his exceptional musicianship, versatility, technical expertise, knowledge and dedication,
Frank Strobel has established himself as one of the most multisided conductors of his
generation. Internationally renowned with world premieres and reproductions of works of
composers such as Sergei Prokofiev, Alfred Schnittke, Frank Schreker and Siegfried Wagner,
from which many debut recordings emerged, Frank Strobel opens up new insights into the
world of film music.
Strobel is strongly committed to the works of Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998) and is the
authorised editor of the work of the composer, whom he helped notating his works in his final
years. In 1992 he conducted the first performance of The End of St Petersburg at the Alte
Oper Frankfurt.
As well as editing and conducting the original music for silent film classics, Frank Strobel has
made a specialty of arranging and performing new scores. Vintage films he has worked on
include Battleship Potemkin, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, Faust, Intolerance, Im Kampf
mit dem Berge, The Knight of the Rose (Der Rosenkavalier), The Lodger, Dr Mabuse,
Metropolis, Alexander Nevski, The New Babylon, Nibelungen, Nosferatu, October, Pandora`s
Box, Richard Wagner, Romeo and Juliet, Tabu, a.o.
Frank Strobel edited the reconstructed original music by Prokofiev for Alexander Nevsky in
2003, which he then conducted and recorded for CD, winning the Preis der Deutschen
Schallplattenkritik 2004. He played a major part in the restoration of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis
and its score by Gottfried Huppertz as well as his music for Die Nibelungen. In 2010 Frank
Strobel conducted the world premiere of the restored Metropolis classic at the Berlinale,
Berlin’s Film Festival and subsequently he premiered the restored film October at the Berlinale
2012. Robert Wiene’s restored film Der Rosenkavalier with music by Richard Strauss has been
performed under the direction of Frank Strobel with renowned orchestras. A recording with the
Staatskapelle Dresden is available on DVD.
Frank Strobel enjoys particularly close professional relationships with the Berlin Radio
Symphony Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony
Orchestra, Iceland Symphony, Konzerthaus Vienna, London Symphony, MDR Radio Orchestra
Leipzig, NDR Radio Orchestra Hannover, Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestre Philharmonique
de Radio France, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Orchestre National de Lyon,
Philharmonie Cologne, Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Tivoli Copenhagen.
In the 2014/15 season Frank Strobel will realise the world premiere of the new score by
Philippe Schoeller for the film J’accuse with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France at
Salle Pleyel, Paris. He will return to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra to conduct the Australian
premiere of the Matrix Live. Frank Strobel has recently produced the music of the prizewinning
ARD Tatort television show with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Another
collaboration with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra is the ZDF/Arte production of
Chronik von Grieshuus. Other return engagements include the Staatskapelle Dresden with Der
Rosenkavalier, Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, NDR Radio
Orchestra Hannover with the Blancanieves film as well as a tour with the King’s Singers,
further engagements with the Iceland Symphony, Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestre
Philharmonique de Luxembourg, Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Spanish National Orchestra
and Staatskapelle Weimar. Debuts will take him to the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich and to the
ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna with the film Im Kampf mit dem Berge and the original
music by Paul Hindemith.
Until 1998 Frank Strobel was Principal Conductor of the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg.
Since 2000 he has been Artistic Director of the European FilmPhilharmonic Institute Berlin,
which distributes film music materials and manages film music productions and performances
worldwide. For many years he has been consulting the silent movie programs of ZDF/Arte.
Many of Frank Strobel’s core film projects have been recorded on DVD. Some recent releases
include Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, Metropolis, The New Babylon, Nibelungen and Der
Rosenkavalier.
2014/2015
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