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 Entführung aus dem Serail and Aida. Further performances this season include series of Lohengrin and Der fliegende Holländer at the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden as well as concerts with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and several 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 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.

 

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 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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