Samuel Bächli

Samuel Bächli (* 1954 in Uppsala , Sweden) is a Swiss conductor and theater director.

Life

Bächli studied piano with Walter Frey and conducting with Ferdinand Leitner in Basel . He continued his conducting studies with Otmar Suitner at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna . He had engagements as Kapellmeister at the Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen (1985-87), the Staatstheater Wiesbaden (from 1986) and Theater Ulm (1991-95).

From 1995 he was first conductor, 2001-2008 music director in Gelsenkirchen. In 2006 he received the Gelsenkirchen Theater Prize. As a guest conductor, he worked with the Bochum Symphony Orchestra and the Basel Symphony Orchestra, at the Komische Oper Berlin , the Opera in Glasgow and at the theater in Ludwigshafen am Rhein . During this time, Bächli was chief conductor of the then KinderOrchester Ruhr (today: KinderOrchester NRW ).

In 2007 he made his debut at the Erfurt Theater with Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo . In 2009 he became first Kapellmeister here. He directed the world premiere of Jeffrey Ching's opera Das Waisenkind (2009) as well as two of his own chamber operas: The Mastersingers (based on Richard Wagner ) and Triumph der Liebe based on the play by Pierre Carlet de Marivaux with music by Johann Sebastian Bach (2011).

In addition to his work as a conductor, Bächli also emerged as a chamber musician, especially a piano accompanist. In Wiesbaden, for example, he was involved as a pianist in a complete performance of Franz Schubert's songs . In 2015 he directed the operetta Pariser Leben at Theater Erfurt.

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SURNAME	Bächli, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss conductor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH	1954
PLACE OF BIRTH	Uppsala , Sweden