St. Gallen Symphony Orchestra

The St. Gallen Symphony Orchestra is a symphony orchestra in Eastern Switzerland . It plays its concerts mainly in the Tonhalle St. Gallen .

history

Tonhalle St. Gallen

While St. Gallen already knew subscription concerts in the 1850s. For example, when Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner conducted a concert together for the first time, a professional symphonic orchestra was only founded in 1877, which was supported by the St. Gallen Concert Association and served as a theater and concert orchestra. It was Othmar Schoeck , the Swiss composer and conductor who directed the orchestra from 1917 to 1944. He was followed by u. a. Carl Schuricht , Paul Kletzki , André Cluytens , Samuel Friedman and John Neschling . In 2000, the symphony orchestra and the then joined the Municipal Theater of St. Gallen newly St. Gallen concert and theater together. In this way, a VAT optimization could be achieved, since the symphony orchestra provides services for the theater in operas, operettas and musicals.

management

In the management of the Konzert und Theater St. Gallen there is the function of concert director for the interests of the orchestra, which Florian Scheiber has performed since 2004. He is responsible for programming, engagements and finances and, together with two delegates from the orchestra and the chief conductor, for the selection of works. After Jiři Kout left the orchestra in 2008 after 12 years as chief conductor, David Stern took over the orchestra. Due to constantly growing international obligations, he only extended his three-year contract, which ended in 2011, for one more year until the end of the 2011/12 season. In May 2012 the first concert took place under the new chief conductor Otto Tausk . His contract in St. Gallen ended in summer 2018, and his successor is Modestas Pitrenas .

Guests

Guest conductors (selection)

• Alexander Lazarev
• Maurice Steger
• Leopold Hager
• Serge Baudo
• Yuri Aronovich
• Andrei Boreiko
• John Fiore
• Leif Segerstam
• Tang Muhai
• Petri Sakari
• Eiji Ōue
• Krzysztof Penderecki

Soloists (selection)

• Frank Peter Zimmermann
• Rudolf Buchbinder
• Elisabeth Leonskaja
• Imogen Cooper
• Boris Belkin
• Emmanuel Pahud
• Sharon Kam
• Renaud and Gautier Capuçon
• Alfredo Perl
• Christian Lindbergh
• Evelyn Glennie
• Akiko Suwanai
• Gerhard Oppitz
• Mihaela Ursuleasa
• Baiba Skride
• Rosemary Yiameos

Event series

In addition to subscription concerts and participation in almost all music theater productions of the St. Gallen Theater, there is also a focus on child and youth work as well as chamber music: In addition to the international master cycle , members of the orchestra play smaller music in the series of the same name on Sundays at 5 a.m. Cast presented.

literature

• Michael Bommer: 125 years of the St. Gallen Concert Association, 1877–2002. Concert Association St. Gallen, St. Gallen 2002, OCLC 76681819 .

Web links

• Website of the St. Gallen Symphony Orchestra

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: [The professional listener]. Interview. In: St. Galler Tagblatt . Retrieved July 5, 2010 (no mementos ; title taken from URL).
2. ↑ René Hornung: On the go. A small, fine piece of architecture has been created in the new street attendants' magazine in St. Gallen-Winkeln. It is garnished with tongue-in-cheek art on the building by Elisabeth Nembrini. In: St. Galler Tagblatt . June 1, 2010, accessed May 21, 2010.
3. ↑ Martin Preisser: Otto Tausk with a picture book start in St. Gallen. In: St. Galler Tagblatt . May 29, 2012 ( ottotausk.nl ( Memento from September 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 168 kB]).
4. ↑ Peter Surber: New to the executive desk: Modestas Pitrenas. In: Saiten Ostschweizer Kulturmagazin . Retrieved October 15, 2017 . 
5. ↑ About us. Website of the St. Gallen Symphony Orchestra, accessed on July 6, 2020.