Conductor Alexander Joel is the new Music Director of the Staatstheater Braunschweig, where he will begin the season with premieres of La Bohème and Lohengrin. In 2007/08 he will also give his concert debut at the Staatskapelle Dresden, his debut at the Staatsoper Hamburg with Bohème, and has been reinvited to conduct Macbeth at the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden. He will continue as guest conductor at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, where he triumphed with a new production of Gounod’s Faust, conducting numerous revivals as well as a new production of  Rossini’s Turco in Italia.
 
In 2006/07, Alexander Joel conducted the revival of Verdi’s Macbeth at the Staatsoper Dresden, gave his debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin with Puccini’s Tosca and opened the 150th anniversary season of the Teatro Municipal Santiago de Chile with a new production of Don Carlo. At the Bayerische Staatsoper München he celebrated the Mozart year by conducting every Entführung aus dem Serail production, including performances on Mozart’s 250th birthday at the Münchner Opernfestspiele. He also gave guest performances at the Finnish National Opera Helsinki, Oper Köln, the Komische Oper Berlin and the Teatro Regio di Parma.
 
Im the Spring of 2007, Alexander Joel conducted gala concerts with Juan Diego Florez at the Théâtre de Champs-Elysées and Torsten Kerl at the Litomysl Festival. He gave his debut  with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra at Suntory Hall Tokyo, conducting a Mozart/Beethoven programme. Alexander Joel has conducted numerous renowned orchestras such as the DSO Berlin, MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Gürzenich Orchester Köln, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, RSO Wien, Duisburger Philharmoniker, Bruckner Orchester Linz, Orchestre de Nancy and has collaborated with prominent artsists such as Yuri Bashmet, Julian Rachlin, Mischa Maisky, Sabine Meyer, Sir Thomas Allen and Catherine Malfitano.
 
Alexander Joel began as Erster Kapellmeister at the Deutschen Oper am Rhein in the 2001/02 season, conducting highly acclaimed premieres such as La Wally, Trittico, Macbeth, Hamlet und Entführung aus dem Serail. At the age of 24  he gave his debut at the Opernhaus Nürnberg. Immediately after completing his studies he won the European Conductors Competition Spoleto (Italy) in 1996. His first engagements led him to the Stadttheater von Baden and Klagenfurt as well as the Wiener Volksoper.
 
In 1990, Alexander Joel began studying piano (and later also composition) at the Vienna Academy of Music, before starting his conducting studies in 1991 at the Vienna Conservatory of Music (under Prof. Mark and Prof. Schwarz); he graduated with Honours in 1996. During this time he attended numerous master-classes with renowned conductors (such as Hans Graf, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Gustav Kuhn and Sergiu Celibidache), and participated in the 1996 conducting master-classes in Tanglewood. After university he worked as an assistant to Julius Rudel, Muhai Tang and Gustav Kuhn.
 
 
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