Constantin Trinks
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Constantin Trinks (born 9 April 1975) is a German conductor.
Born in Karlsruhe, Trinks studied piano with Günter Reinhold at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe and conducting with Wolf-Dieter Hauschild. While still a student, Trinks worked as répétiteur and personal assistant to Kazushi Ōno at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe before becoming a permanent solo répétiteur and Kapellmeister there in 2000. In 2002, he was Christian Thielemann's guest conductor for the Bayreuth Festival's new production of Tannhäuser. In the same year, he moved to the Saarbrücken Theatre as 2nd Kapellmeister, with which he remained associated until 2009, from 2006 to 2009 as acting General Music Director. From 2009 to 2012, he was general music director at the Staatstheater Darmstadt. Since 2012 Trinks has been a freelance conductor. He regularly appears as a conductor at opera houses in Europe and the world: Komische Oper Berlin, New National Theatre Tokyo, Semperoper Dresden, Opéra National de Paris, Bayerische Staatsoper München, Oper Frankfurt, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opéra National du Rhin Strasbourg.[1][2][3]
