Simon Gaudenz

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Simon Gaudenz (born September 14, 1974 in Basel , Switzerland ; real name Simon Gaudenz Hunziker ) is a Swiss conductor.

Life

Simon Gaudenz received his first piano lessons from his grandmother. He studied clarinet at the Musikhochschule in Lucerne with Antony Morf and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz with Béla Kovács . Accompanying studies of the composition with Peter Benary and Dieter Ammann . He completed his training with a soloist diploma.

This was followed by conducting studies at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg with Scott Sandmeier and at the Mozarteum Salzburg with Dennis Russell Davies . Important artistic impulses through the collaboration with Kurt Masur , Mario Venzago , Leon Fleisher and Reinhard Goebel .

During his training, he was appointed chief conductor and artistic director of the Collegium Musicum Basel in 2004 and held this position until 2011. From 2010 to 2013 he was also principal guest conductor of the Odense Symphony Orchestra.

Simon Gaudenz has been chief conductor of the Hamburger Camerata since 2012 . Since the 2018/19 season he has also been General Music Director of the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra and has a contract until the end of the 2023/2024 season.

Since 2004 he has been married to Karin Löffler-Hunziker (* 1980), violinist in the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich.

Awards

1999 Award "Contribution to artistic creation" by the Aargau Board of Trustees
Since 2004 Funded by the Conductors' Forum of the German Music Council
2004 Scholarship from David Zinman and invitation to the Aspen Music Festival
2005 Scholarship from the Akademie Musiktheater heute of the Deutsche Bank Foundation
2006 First prize at the International Conducting Competition Gennady Roshdestvenski in Sofia
2006 Another award for “Contribution to Artistic Creation” from the Aargau Board of Trustees
2009 Winner of the German Conductor Award, the most valuable award for conductors in Europe
2009 Third award "Contribution to artistic creation" by the Aargau Board of Trustees

Discography (selection)

  • Dvorak Cello Concerto (with Sebastian Klinger, cello, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern , OehmsClassics , 2015)
  • Schumann The Symphonies (with Odense Symphony Orchestra, classic production osnabrück , 2015)
  • Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24 (with Lorenzo Soulès, piano, Orchester de Chambre de Genève, Nascor, 2014)
  • Mozart Piano Concertos Nos. 11 + 20 + 21 (with Vassily Primakov, piano, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Bridge Records, 2011)
  • Elgar Cello Concerto (with Istvan Vardai, cello, Orchester de Chambre de Genève, Ysaie Records, 2009)

Cooperations

As a guest conductor, he conducts numerous orchestras, including the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Orchester National de France , the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich , the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin , the Orchester National de Lyon, the Orchester Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, the Orchester Philharmonique du Luxembourg , the Orchester Philharmonique de Strasbourg , the Konzerthausorchester Berlin , the Russian National Philharmonic, the Orchester Musikkollegium Winterthur , the State Hermitage Symphony Orchestra St. Petersburg, the Düsseldorf Symphony , the Bremen Philharmonic, the Württemberg Philharmonic , the Philharmonic State Orchestra Mainz , the Nuremberg Philharmonic , the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn , the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck and the Stuttgart Philharmonic .

Simon Gaudenz made his debut as an opera conductor in Freiburg in 2003 with Arthur Honegger's Les Aventures du Roi Pausole , followed in 2004 by Strauss' One Night in Venice at the Fricktaler stage and two years later by Verdi's La traviata at the Altenburg-Gera Theater.

Appearances at various festivals such as the Berliner Festspiele , the European Music Month 2001, the Euroklassik Festival and the Festival de Gensac / Bordeaux, as well as numerous recordings for Bavarian Radio , West German Radio , Radio France , Radio Suisse Romande and Swiss Radio DRS .

References

  1. ^ Collegium Musicum Basel - History
  2. ↑ Principal Guest Conductor at the Odense Symphony Orchestra
  3. ↑ Christoph Forsthoff: The new chief conductor has good visions. In: The world . April 17, 2012 .;
  4. ↑ Simon Gaudenz becomes GMD in Jena. In: Swiss music newspaper . 2nd June 2017 .;
  5. ↑ Michael Groß: Jena Philharmonic in the future without artistic directorship. In: Thüringische Landeszeitung . January 17, 2020, accessed on January 18, 2020 (German).

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personal data
SURNAME Gaudenz, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss conductor
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel , Switzerland