SINFONIEORCHESTER WUPPERTALMendelssohn / Paulus
May 20, 2013
Christof Perick, conductor
In the season 2011/12
Christof Perick conducted numerous concerts with the Beethoven Orchester Bonn and the Staatsorchester Braunschweig, Kassel and Darmstadt.
With the Staatskapelle Halle he conducted at the Brucknerhaus Linz and the
Saarländische Staatsorchester at the Festival of Saint-Malo. He also leads the
Philharmonic Orchestra of Magdeburg and Kiel
and the Symphony Orchestra Münster.
Conducting new productions of Tosca and Fledermaus as well as revivals of Tannhäuser, Ariadne on Naxos, Zauberflöte and Entführung aus dem Serail, Christof Perick will finish his function as chief conductor of the Bayerische Staatstheater Nürnberg after six years in 2010/11. Together with the Nürnberger Philharmoniker he will guest in six concerts at Neuschwanstein Castle (Mozart-Wagner-Richard Strauss) and he will conduct Strauss’ Heldenleben, Bruckner’s Symphony N°8, Mahler’s Symphony N° 2 and Lied von der Erde in Nürnberg.Further engagements will lead Christof Perick to the San Diego Opera and Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, where he will prolong his ten-year-long function as chief conductor for one more year at the request of the orchestra. Christof Perick also will conduct concerts with the Staatskapelle Halle, with the Niedersächsische Staatsorchester, with Orchestre Philhamonique de Nice and with Jena Philharmonic.
During his carreer Christof Perick collaborated with nearly all the top-orchestras in North America, among them New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra Washington, Houston Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal as well as in Atlanta, Dallas, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Phoenix, St. Louis, San Antonio, San Diego and Seattle. In Europe he worked with such renowned orchestras as Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre National de Lyon, Orchestre Philharmonique de Montpellier, Philharmonische Staatsorchester Hamburg, the Radio Symphonies of the MDR Leipzig, WDR Köln, NDR Hamburg, SWR Stuttgart as well as the Philharmonic orchestras of Bremen, Dortmund and Stuttgart.
Christof Perick has conducted at the Opernhaus Zürich, the Wiener Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Deutsche Oper am Rhein and the Hamburgische Staatsoper as well as numerous new productions at the Semperoper Dresden (Freischütz, Capriccio, Tannhäuser, Parsifal, Fidelio, Tristan und Isolde, Salome, Schweigsame Frau, Falstaff). In the USA he is a frequent guest performer at the Metropolitan Opera New York (Fidelio, Tannhäuser, Frau ohne Schatten, Hänsel und Gretel, Meistersinger) as well as the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the San Francisco Opera (Der Fliegende Holländer and Parsifal).
Born in Hamburg, Christof Perick studied there at university under Professor Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg. He was General Music Director of the Staatstheater Saar-brücken (1974-77) and Karlsruhe (1977-86) as well as at the Niedersächsische Staatsorchester and the Staatsoper Hannover 1993-96. 1992-95 he was Music Direc-tor of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. In autumn 1999 he was awarded a Pro-fessorship of Conducting as chair of his former professor’s department in Hamburg.
Conducting new productions of Tosca and Fledermaus as well as revivals of Tannhäuser, Ariadne on Naxos, Zauberflöte and Entführung aus dem Serail, Christof Perick will finish his function as chief conductor of the Bayerische Staatstheater Nürnberg after six years in 2010/11. Together with the Nürnberger Philharmoniker he will guest in six concerts at Neuschwanstein Castle (Mozart-Wagner-Richard Strauss) and he will conduct Strauss’ Heldenleben, Bruckner’s Symphony N°8, Mahler’s Symphony N° 2 and Lied von der Erde in Nürnberg.Further engagements will lead Christof Perick to the San Diego Opera and Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, where he will prolong his ten-year-long function as chief conductor for one more year at the request of the orchestra. Christof Perick also will conduct concerts with the Staatskapelle Halle, with the Niedersächsische Staatsorchester, with Orchestre Philhamonique de Nice and with Jena Philharmonic.
During his carreer Christof Perick collaborated with nearly all the top-orchestras in North America, among them New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra Washington, Houston Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal as well as in Atlanta, Dallas, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Phoenix, St. Louis, San Antonio, San Diego and Seattle. In Europe he worked with such renowned orchestras as Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre National de Lyon, Orchestre Philharmonique de Montpellier, Philharmonische Staatsorchester Hamburg, the Radio Symphonies of the MDR Leipzig, WDR Köln, NDR Hamburg, SWR Stuttgart as well as the Philharmonic orchestras of Bremen, Dortmund and Stuttgart.
Christof Perick has conducted at the Opernhaus Zürich, the Wiener Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Deutsche Oper am Rhein and the Hamburgische Staatsoper as well as numerous new productions at the Semperoper Dresden (Freischütz, Capriccio, Tannhäuser, Parsifal, Fidelio, Tristan und Isolde, Salome, Schweigsame Frau, Falstaff). In the USA he is a frequent guest performer at the Metropolitan Opera New York (Fidelio, Tannhäuser, Frau ohne Schatten, Hänsel und Gretel, Meistersinger) as well as the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the San Francisco Opera (Der Fliegende Holländer and Parsifal).
Born in Hamburg, Christof Perick studied there at university under Professor Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg. He was General Music Director of the Staatstheater Saar-brücken (1974-77) and Karlsruhe (1977-86) as well as at the Niedersächsische Staatsorchester and the Staatsoper Hannover 1993-96. 1992-95 he was Music Direc-tor of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. In autumn 1999 he was awarded a Pro-fessorship of Conducting as chair of his former professor’s department in Hamburg.
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