Garrett Keast

The career of American conductor Garrett Keast, who is based in Berlin, began with performances of Faust at the Opéra National de Paris, the acclaimed production of Georg Friedrich Haas’ Bluthaus at Oper Bonn, and Die Zauberflöte at Deutsche Oper Berlin. These were followed by debuts with, among others, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, the MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, and the Belgian National Orchestra. Today, Garrett Keast appears successfully as a guest conductor throughout Europe. He was born in Houston, Texas, and was mentored by Christoph Eschenbach at the Houston Symphony Orchestra.

A sought-after conductor, Garrett Keast works with many renowned ensembles, including the Tonkünstler Orchestra Vienna, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the SWR Symphony Orchestra, the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony, the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Danish Orchestra, several Danish symphony orchestras, the Prague Philharmonia, the Finnish National Opera Orchestra, the Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Aspen and Pacific Music Festivals.

Highlights of the 2019/20 season included debuts at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, with the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, the Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, the Sinfonietta Lausanne, and the TONALi Orchestra. He also returned to the Chile Symphony Orchestra, the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra, and the Hamburg Ballet.

Garrett Keast has conducted opera and ballet productions at houses such as the Opéra National de Paris, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opéra National de Lorraine, Finnish National Opera, Aspen Music Festival, Theater Erfurt, Theater Bremen, Oper Bonn, Hamburg Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Staatsoper Hannover, Opera San Antonio, Fort Worth Opera, New Orleans Opera, and Virginia Opera. His repertoire includes works such as La Bohème, Der fliegende Holländer, Rigoletto, Carmen, Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, Ariadne auf Naxos, and numerous ballet productions.

As a young conductor, he trained at the Aspen and Tanglewood festivals and received the Bruno Walter Career Development Grant while working as a conductor at New York City Opera. Garrett Keast also served as an assistant at the Opéra National de Paris, the Vienna State Opera, and Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Quelle: https://www.tonali.de/profile/garrett-keast/