After having attended the "Richard Wagner-Gymnasium" in Baden-Baden, he studied piano at the Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg and at the same time philosophy and history of art at the University of Freiburg. He then continued his studies in Berlin, at the Hochschule der Künste, where he graduated in 1986. While still studying at the Hochschule der Künste, in 1985 he won the 1st International Arturo Toscanini competition for orchestra conductors, and then the first prize in the International Gino Marinuzzi competition for orchestra conducting. He was awarded later on a scholarship from the Tanglewood Music Festival, where he could study with Seiji Ozawa and Leonard Bernstein.
At the Bayerische Staatsoper München. Alban Berg: Lulu, 2004-2005
In the following years, he collaborated with some well-known Italian Orchestras (Orchestra Sinfonica di San Remo, Orchestra Regionale del Lazio). In 1999 he was then appointed as Music Director of the Teatro Massimo and held this title until 2003.
In 2005 Reck was invited to conduct two new productions at the New National Theatre Tokyo, Alban Berg's Lulu and Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
An intense concert and opera activity followed. Particularly noteworthy among all performances: the first European performance of the opera Dead Man Walking by Jake Heggie at the Semperoper Dresden, Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde at the Teatro Reggio di Torino, Der Ring des Nibelungen at the reopened Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, Debuts at the Hamburgische Staatsoper, the Oper Frankfurt; concerts with: the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Turin, the Orchestre National de Montpellier, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (Edinburgh Festival), the orchestras Gran Teatro la Fenice, Venice, of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra.
Among his more recent performances, in 2011 Tannhäuser by Richard Wagner at Teatro Comunale di Bologna.
With the 2013 production by Yannis Kokkos of the Fliegender Höllander by Richard Wagner, Stefan Anton Reck was tributed a special personal success both at Teatro Comunale of Bologna and at Teatro San Carlo of Naples.
He has been invited by the RAI National Symphony Orchestra to conduct a tribute concert for the 90th Birthday of M°Pierre Boulez in 2015, where he will conduct Pierre Boulez's "Livre pour Cordes" and "Notations" n.1, 2, 3, 4 and 7.
M°Reck is mostly renowned world-wide for his interpretations of Gustav Mahler’s work, as well as of the Second Viennese School’s (Berg, Schoenberg and Webern) and for his interest and support of contemporary music.
These features can be found in his vast painting production, characterised mostly by an abstract and synesthetical style, with contaminations and fascinations from the musical world.[1]
It is only recently that he decided to start exhibiting, in addition to his conducting activity, with dates in the most renowned galleries and museums. A selected choice of his works will be on display in Italy for the first time at the prestigious PAN Palazzo delle Arti of Naples, in a personal exhibition from 18 September to 19 October 2014.
Discography
R. Strauss, Daphne, Gran Teatro La Fenice, Dynamic, CD et DVD
Berg, Lulu, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, OehmsClassics
Wagner Portrait, Albert Dohmen, Orchestra del Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Arte Nova Classics
Schostakowitsch, Symphonie n° 1, op. 10; Skrjabin, Le Poème de l’Extase, op. 54, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Edition Zeitklang
Schönberg, Erwartung (Anja Silja); Poulenc, La voix humaine (Raina Kabaivanska), Orchestra del Teatro Massimo di Palermo
Mahler, Symphonie n° 7, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Preiser Records
Mahler, Symphonie n° 10, Adagio; Wagner, Wotans Abschied und Feuerzauber; Bartók, Der wunderbare Mandarin, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Preiser Records
Tutino, Riccardo III, Orchestre del Teatro Sociale di Rovigo, Ermitage
Press
Opéra international 255, mars 2001, Berg, Lulu
Die Opernwelt, März 2001, Berg, Lulu
FAZ Nr. 261, 9. 11. 2001, Lulu CD
Süddeutsche Zeitung Nr. 245, 24. 10. 2001, Lulu CD
Stuttgarter Zeitung, 13. 2. 2002, Lulu CD
FAZ Nr. 114, 18. 5. 2002, Schönberg, Moses und Aron
L’Hérault du jour, 10. 11. 2009, Mahler, Symphony n° 6
Midi libre, 10. 11. 2009, Mahler, Symphony n° 6
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