Since 2005, Christof Perick has been General Music Director and Chief Conductor at the Bayerische Staatstheater Nürnberg and the Nürnberger Philharmoniker, where this season he conducts philharmonic concerts as well as premieres of von Cosi fan tutte and Lohengrin and a Da Ponte cycle. Further performances this season include series of Lohengrin, Ariadne auf Naxos and Tannhäuser at the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden and a new production of Tannhäuser at the San Diego Opera.

Christof Perick gives guest performances with top US orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra Washington, Houston Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal as well as in Atlanta, Dallas, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Phoenix, St. Louis, San Antonio, San Diego and Seattle. In 2000 he was named Chief Conductor of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra in the capital of the state of North Carolina.

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 poerformer 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 und Parsifal).

In Europe, Perick frequently collaborates with renowned orchestras such as the Orchestre National de France, Orchestre National de Lyon, Orchestre Philharmonique de Montpellier, Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, 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.

Born in Hamburg, Christof Perick studied at university under Professor Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg. He was General Music Director of the Staatstheater Saarbrücken (1974-77) and Karlsruhe (1977-86) as well as at the Niedersächsische Staatsorchester and the Staatsoper Hannover 1993-96. 1992-95 he was Music Director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. In autumn 1999 he was awarded a Professorship of Conducting as chair of his former professor’s department in Hamburg.

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