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Lena-Lisa Wüstendörfer (* 1983 in Zurich ) is a Swiss conductor and musicologist . She is chief conductor of the Swiss Orchestra .

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Lena-Lisa Wüstendörfer grew up in Zurich . She is the daughter of actor Edzard Wüstendörfer .

Wüstendörfer studied violin and conducting at the University of Music in Basel . At the same time, she completed studies in musicology and economics at the University of Basel , where she did her doctorate on Gustav Mahler . It was sponsored by the Swiss Study Foundation , as well as by the Ernst Göhner Foundation and the Academy of Music Theater Today of the Deutsche Bank Foundation . Wüstendörfer deepened her conducting studies with Sylvia Caduff and Roger Norrington and was assistant conductor to Claudio Abbado .

Wüstendörfer is the founder and music director of the Swiss Orchestra , which performs Swiss symphonies nationwide with composers such as Edouard Dupuy , Hans Huber and Johann Carl Eschmann . The aim is to build musical bridges between the linguistic regions of Switzerland and bring about "a renaissance of Swiss symphonic music ". Wüstendörfer is also the artistic director of the Bernese Bach Choir and internationally active as a guest conductor.

The research focus of Wüstendörfer lies in the history of reception and interpretation, in particular Gustav Mahler and Felix Weingartner . She was a lecturer at the musicological seminar at the University of Basel and did her doctorate with Matthias Schmidt on the history of interpretation of Gustav Mahler's fourth symphony . The Neue Zürcher Zeitung described their anthology Mahler-Interpretation heute as "stimulating compulsory reading" which is "one of the most fascinating things that has been published in recent Mahler reception."

Sounding zeitgeist. Mahler's 'Fourth Symphony' and its interpretation at the turn of the millennium. edition text + kritik, Munich 2019.
Dispute over Fidelio. Gustav Mahler and Felix Weingartner in the dispute over consistency. In: All about Beethoven - interpretation research today, (music research at the Bern University of the Arts). Argus, Schliengen 2019.
Gustav Mahler and the Zeitgeist. Theses on the flourishing popularity of Mahler's work. Munich 2015.
Lived sounds. Gestures in the tension between choir and orchestra. In: Arne Stollberg, Jana Weißenfeld, Florian Henri Besthorn (Eds.): ConductorsBilder: Musical gestures - embodied music. Schwabe, Basel 2015 Basel, ISBN 978-3-7965-3478-2 .

↑ ^a ^b ^c Lena-Lisa Wüstendörfer: Klingender Zeitgeist. Mahler's 'Fourth Symphony' and its interpretation at the turn of the millennium. edition text + kritik, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-86916-723-7 .
↑ Ernst Göhner Foundation: Report 2011 , Zug 2012, p. 33, accessed on June 9, 2019.
^ Website of the Akademie Musiktheater heute: Alumni profile of Lena-Lisa Wüstendörfer , accessed on June 9, 2019.
↑ Aeschbacher, Kurt : Interview with Lena-Lisa Wüstendörfer , SRF 1 Aeschbacher, April 25, 2013, accessed on June 9, 2019.
↑ Website : Lena-Lisa Wüstendörfer's repertoire , February 20, 2019, accessed on June 9, 2019.
↑ Österreichische Musikzeitschrift (ÖMZ) 03/2015: The conductor - gender struggle in the orchestra pit? Hollitzer 2015, ISBN 978-3-9901-2208-2 , p. 10.
↑ Swiss Orchestra website: Schweizer Sinfonik Reloaded , accessed on June 9, 2019.
↑ ^a ^b Lena-Lisa Wüstendörfer (ed.): Mahler interpretation today. Perspectives on Reception at the Beginning of the 21st Century. edition text + kritik, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-86916-392-5 .
↑ Jörg Rothkamm: The true way to play this music. In Neue Zürcher Zeitung, January 19, 2016, accessed on June 9, 2019.