Critical Acclaim Artist Website Artist Biography "His Mahler interpretation, depicting the special character of the music with untold coherence, is one of his best achievements during a relatively short time in office at Darmstadt. Similarly, this particular matinee is up there as one of the most perfect and most convincing performances in the history of the orchestra. The amazingly differentiated percussion and the almost permanently occupied brass instruments – except for the Adagietto – were balsam to ears otherwise put to some stress by this symphony." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "He conjured from the orchestra a music that literally brought out the inner soul, often driving the instrument sections to the edge of ever greater tonal things – but never losing sight of the varied motifs and melodic lines. It was nothing less than a feast of sound as well as a razor-sharp analysis of the inner essences. A truly splendid achievement ... and that goes for the orchestra too. [Premiere of Salome at the Staatstheater Saarbrücken] Saarländischer Rundfunk "Trinks spurs the orchestra on to the highest levels of performance: his sound design is as perfect as the mobility of dynamism and tempo, the Viennese tone, transparency, the rumbling and dramatic tones...like the deep musical insight into the souls of the leading characters, all culminating in an uniquely intense finale." [Der Rosenkavalier premiere at Staatstheater Darmstadt] Frankfurter Neue Presse "The sovereign ease with which this 32-year-old maestro strides through Wagner's "Sacred Festival Drama" is amazing, as though he had been conversant with it for decades. His profound and intimate knowledge of the work is thoroughly coherent in terms of timbre, balance and sound blend and of the pithy but never facile detailing of the leitmotifs." [Parsifal at the Staatstheater Darmstadt] Festspiele.de return to top Constantin Trinks, conductor Hailed for his symphony and opera performances from Frankfurt to Tokyo, conductor Constantin Trinks is considered one of the most promising young conductors performing today -- and his list of international engagements and re-engagements attest to this acclaim. In December of 2010 Constantin Trinks made his debut with the Paris Opera in a revival of Smetana’s The Bartered Bride. Following his major success in performances of Der Rosenkavalier with the Dresden SemperOper, he has been re-engaged to lead productions of Strauss' Capriccio and of Hansel and Gretel. A return engagement at the New National Theatre Tokyo for productions of Parsifal, Don Giovanni and La Bohème is also scheduled. Constantin Trinks' recent symphony engagements include performances with the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, Munich Radio Orchestra, and Stuttgart Philharmonic, as well as with the KBS Symphony Orchestra Seoul and Tokyo Philharmonic, among many others. The remarkable young German conductor Constantin Trinks is in his third season as Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Darmstadt Theater, where he will lead the complete Wagner Ring cycle in 2011. "Constantin Trinks – the new Chief Music Director at the Staatstheater Darmstadt – presents with the premiere of Verdi's wondrous Egypt opera his first production. Both he and his musicians managed the feat of making Aida sound at once sensitive and dynamically highly moving. Indeed, they even made it sound refined at those points where you have to pack a punch. Thus it was that Mr. Trinks was able to infuse the triumphal music with a hint of menace rather than with the usual pathos and, in the process, provided a much greater height of fall to the lyrical passages, during which he also revealed a soft spot for the deeper parts of the woodwind section." Frankfurter Rundschau [Premiere of Aida at the Staatstheater Darmstadt] "Constantin Trinks inspires the orchestra to bring Mozart's music to life....Trinks really pictures the music, teases out and re-integrates the contrasts..." Darmstädter Echo  [HR Symphony Orchestra] "The sovereign ease with which this 32-year-old maestro strides through Wagner's "Sacred Festival Drama" is amazing, as though he had been conversant with it for decades. His profound and intimate knowledge of the work is thoroughly coherent in terms of timbre, balance and sound blend and of the pithy but never facile detailing of the leitmotifs." [Parsifal at the Staatstheater Darmstadt] Festspiele.de