Since 2005 Christof Perick has been General Music Director and Chief Conductor at the Bayerische Staatstheater Nürnberg and the Nürnberger Philharmoniker, where he conducts in 2009/10 the premieres of Tannhäuser, Die Zauberflöte and Ariadne auf Naxos as well as the revivals of Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Nozze di Figaro. This season Christof Perick appears in concert again with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker and Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice.

In the previous season Christof Perick conducted in Nürnberg the Philharmonic Concerts and the premieres of Entführung aus dem Serail and Aida. Furthermore he conducted performance-series of Lohengrin and Der fliegende Holländer at the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden and concert-series with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra (the capital of the state of North Carolina), where he has been chief conductor since 2000. Christof Perick worked 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.

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).

In Europe, Perick frequently collaborates with renowned orchestras such as the 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

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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