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.