Joel, General Music Director of the Staatstheater Braunschweig, conducts in 2009/10 guest performances at Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden (Die lustige Witwe, Macbeth, a new production of Faust), at Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Tosca), at Hamburgische Staatsoper (Carmen) as well as at the Oper Köln (La Boheme). Furthermore he will conduct the new production of Don Carlo at the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp.
In 2008/09 Alexander Joel debuted at New National Theatre Tokyo and conducted numerous concerts with Staatsorchester Braunschweig, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker and Duisburger Philharmoniker. At Staatstheater Braunschweig he conducted the premieres of Manon Lescaut and Simone Boccanegra as well as the revival of Otello. He gave again guest performances at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Dresden, Hamburgische Staatsoper and Oper Köln.
During the last seasons Alexander Joel gave his concert debuts with the Staatskapelle Dresden, DSO Berlin and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, opened the 150th anniversary season of the Teatro Municipal Santiago de Chile with a new production of Don Carlo and conducted the new production of Gounod’s Faust at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. At the Bayerische Staatsoper München he celebrated the Mozart year by conducting every Entführung aus dem Serail production and gave guest performances at Finnish National Opera Helsinki, Komische Oper Berlin and at Teatro Regio di Parma.
Alexander Joel had conducted numerous renowned orchestras such as Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Gürzenich Orchester Köln, MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, RSO Wien, Bruckner Orchester Linz, Orchestre de Nancy and has collaborated with prominent artists such as Yuri Bashmet, Julian Rachlin, Mischa Maisky, Sabine Meyer, Juan Diego Florez, Sir Thomas Allen and Catherine Malfitano.
Alexander Joel was Erster Kapellmeister at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in the 2001/02 season. Already at the age of 24 he gave his debut at Opernhaus Nürnberg and further engagements led him to Baden, Klagenfurt and at 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. Shortly after he gets prize winner at European Conducting Competition Spoleto (Italy), attended numerous master-classes and participated 1996 conducting master-classes in Tanglewood. After university he worked as an assistant to Julius Rudel, Muhai Tang (Royal Opera Stockholm) and Gustav Kuhn.
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