RECENT PERFORMANCES have included

9 August 2011	International Festival of Gilbert & Sullivan Butson Festival - Buston Opera House
Guest Conductor	Iolante
15 October 2009	Sinfonieorchester der TU Dresden, Dresden
Robert Farnon	March
Alexander Glasunow	Autumn from "The Seasons"
Benjamin Britten	Four Sea Interludes from "Peter Grimes"
12 July 2009	TU-Kammerphilharmonie, Dresden
Etienne Méhul	Symphony no. 1
Robert Schumann	Konzertstück for 4 horns (soloists Jörg Brückner, Michael Schneider, Torsten Gotschalk, Dietrich Schlät)
Louise Farrenc	Symphony no. 3
10 July 2009	The Great Pretender, Sinfonieorchester der TU Dresden, Salzgitter
Queen Classic Night
21 June 2009	Sinfonieorchester der TU Dresden, Dresden
27 June 2009	Peterskirche, Görlitz
Ethel Smyth	Overture "The Wreckers"
Edward Elgar	Sea Pictures (soloist Mojca Vedernjak)
Benjamin Britten	Four Sea Interludes from "Peter Grimes"
28 March 2009	The Newnham Ensemble, Cambridge
Jennifer Higdon	Celestial Hymns
Charles Ives	The Unanswered Question
Mahler	Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
6 March 2009	Sinfonieorchester der TU Dresden, Marienkirche, Pirna
8 March 2009	Kreuzkirche, Dresden
Joachim Raff	Overture "Eine feste Burg"
Frank Martin	Sechs Monologe aus "Jedermann" (soloist Robin Buck)
Arthur Honegger	Symphony no. 3 "Liturgique"
5 February 2009	TU-Kammerphilharmonie, Judeich-Bau, Tharandt
8 February 2009	Lukaskirche, Dresden
Darius Milhaud	Saudades do Brasil
Ney Rosauro	Concerto for marimba and strings (soloist Babette Haag)
Jean Françaix	Sept danses après "Les malheurs de Sophie"
Maurice Ravel	Suite: Ma mère l'oye
11 & 12 January 2009	Ensemble Or chadasch, St. Peter, Zurich
Sandra Goldberg	Musical: Judah, Judah!
8 December 2008	Unichor and Sinfonieorchester der TU Dresden, Dresden
Nicolai	Christmas Overture on "Vom Himmel hoch"
Tchaikovsky	Nutcracker Suite op.71a
Vaughan Williams	Hodie
16 October 2008	Sinfonieorchester der TU Dresden, Audimax, Dresden
Clara Schumann	March in E flat
J.G. Rheinberger	Academic Overture Op. 195
Jennifer Higdon	Machine
4 July 2008	Sinfonieorchester der TU Dresden, Festival ORNÖ, Kraftwerk Mitte, Dresden
Alexander Mosolov	Zavod
Arvo Pärt	Silouans Song
Jennifer Higdon	Machine
Arvo Pärt	Festina lente
Ferde Grofé	Power of Niagara
27 June 2008	Kammerphilharmonie der TU Dresden, Villa Teresa, Coswig
28 June 2008	Dreikönigskirche, Dresden
Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn	Overture in C
Bohuslav Martinu	Rhapsody Concerto (soloist Ulrich Eichenauer)
Ludwig van Beethoven	Symphony no. 7
8 June 2008	Sinfonieorchester der TU Dresden, Lukaskirche, Dresden
5 July 2008	Marienkirche, Grossenhain
Felix Mendelssohn	Overture, Ruy Blas
Ludwig van Beethoven	Violinkonzert (soloist Eva Dollfuss)
Antonin Dvorak	Symphony no. 8
10 May 2008	St. Paul, Strasbourg
11 May 2008	St. Etienne, Rosheim, Alsace
Joint concert with Gemeinsames Orchestre Universitaire de Strasbourg and Kammerphilharmonie, TU Dresden
Peter Tchaikovsky	Dornröschen (Strasbourg)
Jean Sibelius	Finlandia (both orchestras)
Johannes Brahms	Violin concerto (Dresden, soloist Kai Vogler)
6 April 2008	ars cantata zürich, Kirche Oberstrass, Zurich
Aaron Copland	In the Beginning
William Billings	Songs from "The Singing Master's Assistant"
Leonard Bernstein	Chichester Psalms
9-11 November 2007	St. Paul's Church, Weymouth
Fauré	Requiem
15 April 2007	ars cantata zurich, Capriccio, Zurich
JS Bach	Cantata BWV 66 "Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen"
	Cantata BWV 192 "Nun danket alle Gott"
	Mass in A, BWV 234
31 January 2007	Orchestre du Conservatoire neuchâtelois, La-Chaux-de-Fonds
CPE Bach	Flute concerto
Mozart	Piano concerto K. 449
30 January 2007	Orchestre du Conservatoire neuchâtelois, La-Chaux-de-Fonds
Mozart	Violin concerto K. 218
Haydn	Cello concerto in D
Mozart	Arias from Le Nozze di Figaro
15 & 19 June 2006	Musica Viva, Paul Klee Zentrum, Bern
William Walton	Facade
29 April 2006	Orchestre du CSAMTV, Riddes
Grétry	Flute concerto
Mozart	Horn concerto no. 4 K. 495
Bärmannn	Adagio for clarinet and orchestra
Françaix	Theme & variations for clarinet and orchestra
Neruda	Trumpet concerto
25 March 2006	ars cantata Zurich, La Chapelle Ancienne, Zurich
Zelenka	Lamentations and Responsories for Holy Week
13 November 2005	ars cantata Zurich, Zurich
JS Bach	Singet dem Herrn
Willy Burkhard	Kleiner Psalter Op. 80
Frank Martin	Mass for double choir
9 October 2005	Orchestre du CSAMTV, Sion
Mendelssohn	Violin concerto
Beethoven	Symphony No. 3
23-26 August 2005	Orchestre du CSAMTV, Sierre & Murten (Murten Classics Festival)
Mozart	Symphony K 16
JC Bach	Symphony Op 3 No. 4
Britten	Serenade for tenor, horn & strings
Mozart	Symphony K 201
5 June 2005	Lehrergesangverein Zurich, Capriccio, Tonhalle Zurich
Mozart/Rejcha	Overture, Le nozze di Figaro
Mozart	Bella mia fiamma
Mozart	Drei geistliche Hymnen K 345
Schubert	Magnificat
Vorisek	Missa solemnis
2 & 10 April 2005	Ars Cantata, Orchestre du CSAMTV, Sion & Zurich
Mozart	Missa brevis K. 49
Mozart	Misericordias Domini K. 222
Mozart	Ave verum corpus K. 618
Arvo Pärt	Magnificat
Arvo Pärt	Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen
20-23 January 2005	Orchestre du CSAMTV, Sion, Basel, Zurich, Bern
Jacqueline Fontyn	Vent d'est
	Per archi
	Battements d'ailes
26-28 November 2004	Bläsersolisten Aargau
Dvorak	Serenade Op. 44
Mussorgsky	Pictures at an Exhibition
30/31 July, 1 August 2004	Orchestre du CSAMTV, Sion, St. Blasien. Basel
Vejvanovsky	Serenada
Margaret Lucy Wilkins	Musica Angelorum
Bach	Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Pärt	Silouans Song
Holst	St Paul's Suite
27 June 2004	Orchestre du CSAMTV, Sion
Mozart	Piano concerto K. 414
	Violin concerto K. 216
	Symphony K. 201
20 June 2004	Tonhalle Orchestra, Jugendmusikschule der Stadt Zurich, Tonhalle Zurich
Stravinsky	Suite No. 2
Mozart	Concert Rondo, K. 382
Schubert	Symphony No. 8, "Unfinished"
16 June 2004	Tonhalle Orchestra, Zurich
Bernstein	Overture, Candide
Copland	Fanfare for the common man
Bartok	Rumanian Dances
Bizet	L'Arlesienne
19 May 2004	Lehrergesangverein Zurich, Tonhalle Orchestra, Tonhalle Zurich
Alexander Borodin Suite from Prince Igor
William Walton	Belshazzar's Feast
4 May 2004	Bläsersolisten Aargau, Wettingen
Janos Tamas	Serenade
28 March 2004	Orchestre du CSAMTV, Sion
Elgar	Introduction & Allegro
Alfred Felder	Vision
Suk	Serenade
20 November 2003	Tonhalle Orchestra, Zurich
Concert for schools
Brahms	Hungarian Dance
Sibelius	Karelia
Bizet	L'arlesienne
Langmeier	3 songs
Grieg	Holberg Suite, In the hall of the mountain king
20/21 September 2003	ars cantata zurich, Filharmonie Bohuslav Martinu, Zlin & Brno
Honegger	Le roi David
1 June 2003	Ten Tors Orchestra, Chard Festival of Women in Music, GB
Francesca Caccini	Overture and Sinfonia from "La liberazione di Ruggiero"
Wilhelmina von Bayreuth	Harpsichord Concerto
Louisa Lasdun	Fractal
Caroline Charrière	Dies irae
M. Roesgen-Champion	Aquarelles
Margaret Lucy Wilkins	Musica Angelorum
5 April 2003	Lehrergesangverein Zurich, Tonhalle-Orchester, Tonhalle Zurich
Hermann	Suter Le Laudi
11 January 2003	ars cantata & friends, Zurich
Handel	Messiah
20 December 2002	ars cantata Zurich, La Chappelle Ancienne, Zurich & Stäfa
J.S. Bach	Cantata 140
	Overture in D
	Magnificat
6/7 September 2002	Filharmonie Bohuslava Martinu, Zlin (CD recordings)
Madeleine Ruggli	Zugrundegetrauert
Katharina Rosenberger	White with rectangular objections
12 August 2002	Orchestergesellschaft Biel, Biel
Rossini	Overture, Otello
Krommer	Concerto for Flute and Oboe
Mendelssohn	Symphony 5
16 June 2002	Lehrergesangverein Zurich, Capriccio, Tonhalle Zurich
J.S. Bach	Mass in B minor
17 March 2002	Lehrergesangverein Zurich, Albisrieden
Vaughan Williams	Five Mystical Songs
S.S. Wesley	Ascribe unto the Lord & The Wilderness
Purcell	Praise the Lord O my soul & O praise God
26 January 2002	ars cantata zurich, La Chappelle Ancienne
Purcell	King Arthur
1 November 2001	Filharmonie Bohuslava Martinu, Zlin
Husa	Symphonie concertante
Kompholc	Harp concerto
Fauré	Requiem
25 August 2001	Gstaad Festival (Chorus Master)
Mozart	Le Nozze di Figaro

REPERTOIRE PERFORMED

OPERATIC

ORCHESTRAL WORKS
Bartók	Concerto for Orchestra
Beethoven	Overtures: Fidelio, Prometheus
	Symphonies 2, 6, 7
Benda	Symphony in B flat
Bizet	Symphony 1, Suite, L'Arlesienne
Brahms	Symphony 1, Serenade Op. 16
Aaron Copland	Symphony 3
Corelli	Concerto grosso Op 6 No 4
F. Domazlicky	Suita Danza
Durante	Primo concerto per orchestra d'archi
Dvorák	Symphony 8, Czech Suite
	Serenades Opp. 22 & 44
Elgar	Introduction and Allegro, Serenade
	Overture, Cockaigne
Gade	Noveletter Op. 53
Grieg	Symphony, Holberg Suite
Haydn	Symphonies 83, 93, 94, 103
Fanny Hensel	Overture in C
Holst	St Paul's Suite
Honegger	Symphony 3
Ireland	Concertino Pastorale
Janácek	Suite for Strings
Marcello	Concerto grosso Op. 1 No. 4
Martinu	Partita
Felix Mendelssohn	Symphony 4
Mozart	Symphonies K. 504, 543, 551
Myslivecek	Wind Serenade
Nicolai	Overture: Lustige Weiber
Puccini	Crisantemi
Purcell	Suite, Dioclesian
Rachmaninov	Symphony 2
Richter	Symphony in e minor
Rota	Concerto per archi
Schmelzer	Die Fechtschule
Schoeck	Sommernacht
Schubert	Symphonies 4, 9
Schumann	Overture: Manfred
Shostakovich	Symphony 9
Sibelius	Rakastava
Joh. Strauss I	Radetzky Marsch, Indianer-Galopp
Joh. Strauss II	Overture: Die Fledermaus
	Waltzes: Blue Danube, Wiener Blut,
	Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald, Donauweibchen
	Polkas: Explosions; Donner und Blitzen
Josef Strauss	Polkas: Die Emanzipierte, Eingesendet
Stravinsky	Octet
R. Strauss	Till Eulenspiegel, Don Juan,
	Rosenkavalier Suite Op. 59
Suk	Serenade for Strings, Pohádka
Tchaikovsky	Serenade for Strings
Telemann	Don Quixote, Overture in D
Vivaldi	Concerto grosso Op. 3 No. 11
Wagner	Prelude, Die Meistersinger
Weber	Overture: Oberon
Webern	Symphony Op. 21
Weill	Kleine Dreigroschenmusik

CONCERTANTE WORKS
Bach	Concerto for 2 Violins in d minor
Brahms	Violin concerto
Chausson	Poème
Chopin	Variations sur "Là ci darem la mano"
Domazlicky	Violin concerto 2
Giuliani	Guitar concerto Op. 30
Gordon Jacob	Suite for treble recorder and strings
Liszt	Piano concerto 1
Mahler	Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen,
	Rückert-Lieder
Marcello	Oboe concerto
Martin	6 Monologe aus Jedermann
Martinu	Rhapsody Concerto
Albert Moeschinger	Miracles de l'Enfance
Mozart	Exsultate Jubilate, Violin concerto K.219
Paganini	Violin concerto 1
Poulenc	Organ concerto
Ravel	Tzigane
Rachmaninov	Piano concerto 2
Rodrigo	Concierto de Aranjuez
Saint-Saëns	Violin Concerto 3
Sarasate	Zigeunerweisen
Schumann	Cello concerto, Konzertstück (4 horns)
Tchaikovsky	Piano concerto 1
Telemann	Suite in a minor
Vieuxtemps	Violin concerto 5
Vivaldi	Piccolo concertos RV 443 & 444
Weill	Violin concerto

MAJOR CHORAL WORKS
J.S.Bach	Johannespassion, Magnificat, Motets
Leonard Bernstein	Chichester Psalms
Lili Boulanger	Psaume 24
Brahms	Ein deutsches Requiem
Bruckner	Mass in e minor
Dvorák	Stabat Mater, Mass in D
Fortunat Frölich	Missaverde
Handel	The Messiah, Dixit Dominus,
	Coronation Anthems
Haydn	Harmoniemesse
Honegger	Le roi David
Hans Huber	Aus Goethes west-östlichem Divan
Kodály	Missa Brevis
William Mathias	A May Magnificat
Mendelssohn	Motets: Aus tiefer Not, Hör mein Bitten
Orff	Carmina Burana
Arvo Pärt	Berliner Messe
Poulenc	Gloria, Mass in G
Rossini	Petite Messe Solennelle
Schubert	Mass in G D.167
Schütz	German Magnificat, Psalmen Davids
Stravinsky	Mass
Hermann Suter	Le Laudi
Vaughan Williams	Five Mystical Songs
Vivaldi	Gloria, Magnificat

NEW MUSIC
Deborah Barnekow	Deep peace of the quiet earth to you
Felix Baumann	Quintet
Susan Burkey	My Masters' Voices
Caroline Charrière	Trauerfarben und Verklärung
H-C von Dadelsen	Kamel
Roshanne Etezady	Static
Denise Fedeli	Miraggi
Alfred Felder	Vision
Morton Feldman	The viola in my life
Noriko Hisada	Landscape
Ursula Jansveld	Lied der Einsamkeit
Rudolf Kelterborn	Vier Nachtstücke, Sappho-Lieder,
	Gesänge zur Nacht, Erinnerungen an Orpheus,
	Ensemble-bücher II & III
Louisa Lasdun	Fractal, In meinen Träumen...
Andrew Lovett	Octet, Aria d'Arturo
Yoritsune Matsudaira	Katsura
Jost Meier	Mouvement dans l'immobile
Mela Meierhans	Vagabundinnen, Almah, Jingles, Na?
Messiaen	Couleurs de la cité céleste
Ch. Neidhöfer	August Stramm Lieder
Maria Niederberger	Oboe Concerto
Arvo Pärt	Silouans Song, Festina Lente, Summa
Felix Profos	Variationen
Jean-Claude Schlaepfer	Chant de lune
Bettina Skrzypczak	SN 1993 J
Matthias Steinauer	Visionen
Markus Wettstein	Nah-fern/leicht-schwer-leicht
A.K. Zwicker	Vom Klang der Bilder

COMPETITIONS & AWARDS

Valiant Forum prize of the Murten Festival (with CSAMTV orchestra) 2004
Prizewinner, Leeds Conductors' Competition 1994
First Prize, Schweizerische Tonkünstlerverein Conducting Competition 1992 & 1993
Tillett Trust award to attend Basel Music Academy 1990
Basel Music Academy Scholarship 1990
Finalist, National Association of Youth Orchestras Conducting Competition 1989
First Sue Williams Bursary 1988

CONDUCTING POSITIONS HELD

Artistic Director, Universitätsorchester Dresden 2008-present
Music Director, Lehrergesangverein Zürich (one of the 4 Tonhalle choruses) 2001-2005
Assistant Conductor, Gstaad Festival summer 2001
Conductor, coramor Chur 2000-2003
Permanent Guest Conductor, Filharmonie Bohuslava Martinu Zlín, Czech Republic 1992
Guest Conductor, Slovak Sinfonietta, Zilina, Filharmonia Sudecka, Walbrzych, Poland 1994
Music Director, ars cantata zürich, Switzerland 1992-2009
Music Director, Orchestre de chambre jurassien 1997-1999
Conductor of Motettenchor Region Basel 1992-1999
Assistant Conductor, Filharmonie Bohuslava Martinu Zlín, Czech Republic 1992-1993
Musical Director, Cambridge University Gilbert and Sullivan Society 1986-1989
Conductor of Newnham College and Trinity Hall Music Societies, Cambridge, England 1983-1988

Concerts as guest conductor with:
Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich; Zürcher Kammerorchester; Radio-Sinfonieorchester Basel; Basler Sinfonieorchester; Stadtorchester Winterthur; Symphonisches Orchester Zürich; Bläsersolisten Aargau; Theater am Gleis; Conservatoire orchestras in Zurich, Bern and Winterthur, Switzerland.
Westbohemian Symphony Orchestra, Mariánské Lázne; Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic, Pardubice; Severoceská Filharmonie, Teplice; Leos Janácek Filharmonie, Ostrava; Filharmonie Bohuslava Martinu, Zlín, Czech Republic;
Slovak Sinfonietta, Zilina, Slovakia;
State Philharmonic, Wroclaw; Filharmonia Sudecka, Walbrzych, Poland;
Divertisment, St Petersburg, Russia.
Roosevelt Ensemble, Washington, D.C.
CD recordings and radio broadcasts in Switzerland and the Czech Republic.

EDUCATION

Basel Music Academy (1989-93), Postgraduate Diploma in Conducting (conducting teachers Ralf Weikert, Horst Stein, Lothar Zagrosek, Wilfried Boettcher; composition teacher Rudolf Kelterborn)
Orchestergesellschaft Biel, Stadtorchester Winterthur, Basler Sinfonieorchester, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Basel, International Opera Studio Zurich
Newnham College, Cambridge (1983-87), M.A. Hons in Music (conducting teachers Robin Page and Simon Johnson)
Master Classes
American Academy of Conducting at Aspen, summer 2000 (with David Zinman, Murry Sidlin, Michael Stern and Jorma Panula)
Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, October 1996 (with David Zinman)
Musik-Akademie der Stadt Basel, New Music Workshops (with Witold Lutoslawski, Werner Heider)
Symphonic Workshops 1992, Marienbad and Zlín, Czech Republic (with Kirk Trevor, Zdenek Bílek and Karol Stryja)
Wiener Meisterkurse 1989, Vienna (with Julius Kalmar)
Hereford Summer School 1988, 1989, 1992, Hereford (with Simon Johnson)

ORCHESTRAL

Permanent Guest Conductor of Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonie Zlín since my Assistantship during the season 1992-93; since then 17 concerts, tours to Switzerland and Austria and CD recordings.

Organised, raised funding for and conducted tour of BMP to Switzerland in November 1994: three concerts of symphonic and choral music.

At Aspen (2000), conducted Saint-Saëns' Violin Concerto 3 and Mendelssohn Symphony 4 in Festival concerts; conducted Brahms' Serenade in D, Schumann's Konzertstück for four horns and the Stravinsky Octet in concerts I organised myself.

Stepped in at short notice to replace chief conductor Petr Skvor for tour of four concerts with the Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic in November 1993.

Invitations to guest conduct orchestras in Switzerland, Poland, Russia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

Invited to be first guest conductor of the Aargauer Kammersolisten (now Bläsersolisten Aargau): concert, rehearsal and interview were broadcast on Swiss TV. Since then further tours.

Formed own symphony orchestra for 2 concerts in the Cambridge University Music School while a student, and a wind ensemble for 2 concerts outside the university.

Formed own string orchestra (Collegio) in Basel; a debut concert of Czech music included the first performance in the west of Domazlicky's Suita Danza.

Conductor of the Newnham College Raleigh Music Society between 1983-87, for 7 choral and/or orchestral concerts; invited to conduct Trinity Hall Music Society in 5 concerts 1985-86.

NEW MUSIC

At Aspen, conducted My Masters' Voices, a work for ensemble by Susan Burkey and the first performances of Static by Roshanne Etezady and Deep Peace of the Quiet Earth to You by Deborah Barnekow.

Conducted the first performance of Na?, a work for wind ensemble by Mela Meierhans in a concert for the Millenium Eve entitled "Visions" and including works by Prokofiev, Alfred Felder and Matthias Steinauer.

Conducted the first performances and recording of Missa Verde, a 60-minute orchestral and choral work by Fortunat Frölich, in November 1999.

Recorded a CD of orchestral music by young Swiss composers, to be released in 2000.

Conducted new series of orchestral jingles for Swiss Radio DRS by Mela Meierhans, summer 1998.

Performed pieces by Alfred Felder and Louisa Lasdun with Divertismento St. Petersburg in May 1998.

Conducted pieces by Rudolf Kelterborn and Bettina Skrzypczak in the last-ever concert of the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Basel in June 1997.

Conducted Miracles de l'enfance as part of the Swiss Radio DRS Festival of music by Albert Moeschinger, March 1997.

Premiered Vom Klang der Bilder, a 74-minute orchestral cycle by A K Zwicker. This involved a first performance in Zlín (3 May 1996), followed by a tour to Zürich and St Gallen. The concert was broadcast by Swiss Radio DRS2, who co-produced the CD with MGB (CD 6151, released August 1998).

First performances include pieces by Felix Baumann, Andrew Lovett, Louisa Lasdun, A K Zwicker, Markus Wettstein, Felix Profos and Christoph Neidhöfer: this last in a concert by the Basel Musik Forum.

Conducted pieces by Morton Feldman, H-C von Dadelsen and Werner Heider as part of course in twentieth-century chamber music at Basel Music Academy.

Participated in a course with Witold Lutoslawski at the Basel Music Academy, concentrating on the Cello concerto and Jeux vénitiens.

THEATRE

1995-1997 Assistant on productions of Don Giovanni, Marriage of Figaro and Paul Bunyan.

Musical Director of three productions by Cambridge University Gilbert and Sullivan Society, fully-staged and with a cast of 30 and a professional orchestra, at the Minack Theatre, Cornwall, and the Arts Theatre Cambridge.

Musical director of fully-staged productions of musicals with a cast of 40 amateurs in Potton, Beds.

Stage manager and/or musical director in Cambridge student theatre (1984-86).

CHORAL

Commissioned and conducted the first performance of "In meinen Träumen..." by Louisa Lasdun, spring 1998.

Invited to direct a year's project in Allschwil (near Basel) to develop community music-making, and leading to performances of Hermann Suter's Le Laudi, involving around 180 experienced and inexperienced singers and instrumentalists of all age-groups.

Wide experience of choral music, having sung regularly in 10 choirs (including The Bach Choir and the National Youth Choir of Great Britain) and been conductor of 9, ranging from church or college chapel choirs to auditioned chamber choirs to large choral societies which give concerts with professional orchestras.

Singing weekend workshops held regularly with choirs in England and Switzerland.

OTHER

Teacher at Stevenage Music School, 1988-1989.

Private teacher of conducting students, 1994-present.

Member of Incorporated Society of Musicians (England) and Schweizerischer Berufs-dirigentenverband (Switzerland).

Languages: English (mother tongue), German, French, some Italian, Czech.

BIOGRAPHY

The British-Swiss conductor Monica Buckland Hofstetter grew up in England, and studied at Newnham College, Cambridge, the Basel Music Academy and the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen.

In 1992-93, she served as Assistant Conductor to the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonie Zlín (Czech Republic), and since then she has been its Permanent Guest Conductor. She frequently appears as a guest conductor with several orchestras in Poland, Slovakia, Russia, and the Czech Republic. In Switzerland, she works regularly with the Bläsersolisten Aargau and Ars Cantata Zürich, and has conducted the Tonhalle Orchestra, Zürcher Kammerorchester, Musikkollegium Winterthur, Theater am Gleis Ensemble, Basel Sinfonieorchester, and the Symphonisches Orchester Zürich. In June 1997, Ms. Buckland Hofstetter had the honor of conducting the farewell concert of the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Basel. In summer 1999, she made her US debut conducting a program of new music by women composers in Washington, DC.

Her first two CDs, Vom Klang der Bilder (an orchestral cycle by the Swiss composer AK Zwicker) and missaverde (a large choral work by Fortunat Frölich), reflect Ms. Buckland Hofstetter's commitment to contemporary music. She has conducted many first performances of music by living composers, and has worked closely with composers such as Witold Lutoslawski, Rudolf Kelterborn, Andrew Lovett, Mela Meierhans, and Helmut Lachenmann on interpretations of their music. A third CD of new Swiss music is scheduled for release later this year.

Monica Buckland Hofstetter has won several awards, including a scholarship to the Basel Music Academy, a prize at the Leeds Conductors' Competition (England) in 1994, and the conducting prize of the Swiss Musicians' Association / Kiefer-Hablitzel Foundation in 1992 and 1993.

PRESS ACCLAIM

"In selecting Weill's second symphony, Monica Buckland and her musicians set themselves a difficult challenge, which they pulled off with great panache. The edge, aggression, intransigence and tragedy of the work came over perfectly. The performance showed how modern this music can still sound today, if it is presented with intensity and interpretative quality like this."

Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten
February 1, 2010

"Buckland understands how to handle musicians, and takes an unmistakable pleasure in bold, passionate action. The precise and balanced performance in Dvořák's 8th Symphony was pre-eminently the long viola and cello legatos that reflected her interpretation. Buckland enchantingly molded the dynamic developments, often playing sudden contrasts against each other. Cheerfulness and melancholy wrapped round one another. First impressions bode well for Monica Buckland's ability to combine her amazing power with the orchestra's no less sizeable strength."

Sinfonieorchester der TU Dresden:
Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Dvořák Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten
June 10, 2008

"Under the masterful leadership of Monica Buckland, the Tonhalle Orchestra achieved a rich and colourful sound."

Tages-Anzeiger, May 22, 2004

"Monica Buckland possesses a differentiated and expressive technique, and her conducting is analytical and acute. The Tonhalle Orchestra reacts swiftly and subtly, fully responsive to the energy of the conductor."

Der Zürcher Oberländer - May 21, 2004

"My sincere admiration for a performance glowing with inner fire."

NZZ - May 21, 2004

"Antonin Dvořák, Léos Janáček, Bohuslav Martinu, Petr Eben and Josef Bohuslav Foerster ... seldom have these pieces, so rarely heard, been performed so convincingly. An hour of celebration for the creators of these works and an all-too-short one for the audience. As usual, many small and apparently trivial details are actually decisive for such a convincing success. There was one fundamental reason - certainly not a detail - for this superb result: the conducting of Monica Buckland. It may appear invidious to pick out someone from the overall concept - but nevertheless, the marked signature, the line, the character, all indicate that the reason for success lay in the hands of conductor Monica Buckland. Her unshowy authority [is] a style of conducting that allows the audience time and space to concentrate entirely on dramaturgy of the pieces."

Domenic Buchli, Bündner Tagblatt, 19 February 2002

"...this semi-staged production [of Purcell's King Arthur] was a rewarding and spectacular performance. Monica Buckland conducted the Chapelle Ancienne and the choir Ars Cantata energetically and with consummate authority. ... This was altogether an enormous musical pleasure."

Michael Eidenbenz, Tages-Anzeiger, 28 January 2002

Fremdes Japan
Ensemble Theater am Gleis, Winterthur:

"The conductor Monica Buckland piloted the TaG Ensemble safely through the varied depths of this contemporary Japanese music."

Der Landbote 28.11.00

Vivaldi & Telemann, recorder concertos
Shostakovich Symphony No. 9
Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonie Zlín:

"The likeable conductor ... presented the orchestra not just as a completely reliable accompanist, but also brought out its melodic line and harmonic fullness. ... Monica Buckland Hofstetter presented herself not just as a talented conductor who makes orchestral works sound like chamber music, but her performance was particularly convincing when she brought out particular passages [of the Shostakovich] in their various shadings."

DNES 7.2.00

Luzerner Zeitung 11.1.00
Mela Meierhans, Na?:

"Exciting, commited and authoritative music-making."

Alfred Felder, Vision

Mela Meierhans, Na? (UA):

"...the conductor, Monica Buckland Hofstetter - who by the way was exemplary throughout the whole evening, precisely and sensitively mastering the difficult task of conducting..."

Ostschweizer Tagblatt 4.1.00

Fortunat Frölich, missa verde:

"Missa verde was premiered in a committed performance under the supremely" good conducting of Monica Buckland Hofstetter.

Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 29.11.99

Fortunat Frölich, missa verde
Premiere: basel sinfonietta, Ars Cantata Zürich, Coramor and Kammerchor Chur:

"A discovery and a great prize for the concert was the musical director, Monica Buckland Hofstetter. This director... is a very good orchestral conductor. Every entry was given, the choir was actively supported, the soloists were able to rely on her. And thus the interpretation of Missa verde also became an experience that will long remain."

Die Südostschweiz, 30.11.99

The Roosevelt Ensemble, NMWA, Washington, D.C.:

"...an elegant and polished performance."

Washington Post, 22.6.99

CD: Alfons Karl Zwicker, Vom Klang der Bilder
Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonie Zlín:

"The dynamic conductor Monica Buckland Hofstetter...relies on her extraordinary ability, which rapidly gains respect from even hardened professionals...Her latest CD...demonstrates her thorough understanding of modern music's expressive possibilities."

Blick, 12.4.99

Gioacchino Rossini, Petite messe solennelle Motettenchor Basel :

"...[Monica Buckland Hofstetter] understood how to present the ...Petite Messe Solennelle with passion and conviction. Precise entries, the choir's harmonious articulation...gave the necessary strength to the singing and delighted the plentiful audience."

Basler Zeitung, 30.3.99

Gioacchino Rossini, Petite messe solennelle Motettenchor Basel :

"...the carefree nature of the composition was mirrored in her interpretation...it was a pleasure to listen. The invigorating freshness of the overall interpretation was highly welcome, and above all, believable."

BZ, 29.3.99

J. Brahms, Ein deutsches Requiem
Ars Cantata Zürich, Motettenchor Basel & Bohuslav
Martinu Phiharmonic Zlín:

"...an impressive effect: the conductor led the orchestra in an exciting intensification, fully conveying the drama of the subject and music."

BZ, 17.11.98

Radio-Sinfonieorchester Basel, farewell concert: (Kelterborn and Skrzypczak):

"Monica Buckland Hofstetter was much more impressive. She led the musicians effortlessly, at the same time giving them the support they needed...she and the Radio-Sinfonieorchester achieved an emotionally exciting interpretation, demonstrating above all the poetry of the music."

BZ, 28.6.97

A. Moeschinger, Miracles de l'Enfance Basel Music Academy:

"This very delicate and subtle work requires simplicity and transparency. Under Monica Buckland Hofstetter the performers were able to demonstrate exactly this."

Bastler Zeitung, 11.3.97

R. Strauss, Don Juan Tonhalle Orchestra:

"The energetic dynamism of Monica Buckland Hofstetter was completely convincing...her individual approach to the interpretation was apparent very rapidly, a good testimonial for this conductor."

Muzik + Theater, Tonhalle Forum, November 1996

A.K. Zwicker, Vom Klang der Bilder
Bohuslav Martinu Filharmonie Zlín:

"In the end, Vom Klang der Bilder was produced in close partnership with Monica Buckland Hofstetter, who prepared and led the Bohuslav Martinu Filharmonie Zlin excellently. The orchestra members gave the impression of playing their handwritten parts precisely to the last detail."

Die Ostschweiz, 11.5.96

Bernstein, Chichester Psalms
ars cantata zürich, Elisabethenkirche Basel:

"The conductor, Monica Buckland Hofstetter, grasped this piece in an unforced way, naturally and confident of the desired effects...a beautiful mood."

BZ, 23.4.96

H. Suter, Le Laudi KulturFrühling Allschwil:

"The greatest share of the success was earned by musical director Monica Buckland Hofstetter. Her unobtrusive conducting gestures demonstrated both staying power and impressive volume in this mature performance. Her interpretation was without flourishes and apparently effortless: Le Laudi shone without false glitter. The enormous effort has paid off and deserves infinte praise."

Basler Zeitung, 22.5.95

Dvorák, Stabat Mater
ars cantata & Stadtorchester Winterthur
Tonhalle, Zürich:

"Discipline, rhythmic and dynamic precision and excellent expressive ability... this young conductor, whose future promises success, proved herself this evening not only as a skilled choirmaster, but as a confident orchestral conductor, who led the Winterthurer Stadtorchester in a convincing performance..."

NZZ, 31.5.94

Weill evening
Aargauer Kammersolisten
Künstlerhaus Boswil:

"What Monica Buckland Hofstetter conjured out of the orchestra was more than worth hearing. This effervescent music was given with such a sensitive interpretation, in all its detail...that this famous suite never became a showy potpourri, but instead a striking work of art."