Lack Benjamin, Mag.

Subjects

Conductor of the Landeskonservatorium orchestra, conducting, choir, ensemble conducting, choir conducting, specialised didactics (choir/ensemble conducting), instrumental internship, chamber music/ensemble for singers, group voice training

Biography

Benjamin Lack received a sound musical education from an early age. After leaving school, he completed extensive studies at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart and the Vienna University of Music. He studied school music, horn, and orchestral conducting with Thomas Hauschild, Dieter Kurz, Per Borin, and Marc Stringer, among others. As a scholarship holder of the Conductors’ Forum of the German Music Council, Lack worked with personalities such as Mariss Jansons and Kurt Masur, who became important sources of inspiration for him.
As part of his teaching and artistic activities at the Stella Vorarlberg, Benjamin Lack performs a broad repertoire of choral and orchestral literature, in which new and contemporary music also plays an important role. He is also cathedral conductor at St Nicholas in Feldkirch, artistic director of the Bregenz Festival Choir and of the Feldkirch Chamber Choir.
Lack has conducted at the Bregenz Festival and the Vorarlberg State Theatre and is regularly active at both institutions. He has conducted the Southwest German Philharmonic Orchestra in Constance and the Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra, among others.