Sylvia Caduff

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Sylvia Caduff (born January 7, 1937 in Chur ) is a Swiss conductor .

Life

As a teenager, Caduff decided to study music and become a conductor. Although she encountered incomprehension among teachers and parents, she pursued this goal with passion. During his school days, Caduff met Herbert von Karajan on a conducting course . When she asked, he encouraged her to become a conductor. She studied piano and music theory at the Lucerne Conservatory until she graduated in 1961 . In conducting , she also attended master classes with Rafael Kubelík , Lovro von Matačić , Franco Ferrara and Willem van Otterloo in the years up to 1962 . From 1962 she did a three-year conducting internship with Karajan at the Berlin Conservatory. In 1965 she reached the final of the “ Guido Cantelli ” conducting competition in Stresa and in 1966 she received an “Honorary Mention” at the Nikolai Malko Competition in Copenhagen .

In 1966 she was the first woman to win the Dimitri Mitropoulos International Music Competition in New York. She prevailed against 34 conductors from 23 countries. This achievement enabled her to spend a year as an assistant with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic . During this time she conducted the orchestra several times. The Philharmonic's statutes had to be changed specifically for this purpose: they excluded the presence of women up to this point.

Back from New York, Caduff was a guest conductor and celebrated a. a. 1967 made her British debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra . From 1972 to 1976 she was a professor of conducting at the Bern Conservatory Music School . In 1973 she received the recognition award of the Art and Culture Prize of the City of Lucerne .

She led her first "own" orchestra from 1977 to 1986 as general music director in Solingen (Germany). As a guest conductor, she traveled around the world and in 1978 became the first woman to conduct the Berliner Philharmoniker after the Second World War . In addition, she conducted u. a. the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra , the Munich Philharmonic , the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin , the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Cologne Gürzenich Orchestra .

In 1996, in her hometown of Chur, she conducted the world premiere of Gion Antoni Derungs' opera Il semiader with the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana . In 2003 she was awarded the Bündner Kulturpreis.

literature

  • Le Page, Jane Weiner: Sylvia Caduff. Orchestral Conductor . In: Women Composers, Conductors, and Musicians of the Twentieth Century. Selected Biographies . tape 2 . Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, New Jersey 1983, pp. 56-66 (English).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Erich Singer: “You are crazy”. A conversation with Sylvia Caduff, the first female conductor at the Lucerne Festival. In: Soroptimist International Club Luzern. Retrieved March 25, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Christine Lemke-Matwey: The music, bright and beautiful. In: The time . March 18, 2020, accessed March 24, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Sylvia Caduff. In: European female conductors. Internationaler Arbeitskreis Frau und Musik eV, 2002, accessed on March 24, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Le Page, Jane Weiner: Sylvia Caduff. Orchestral Conductor . In: Women Composers, Conductors, and Musicians of the Twentieth Century. Selected Biographies . tape 2 . Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, New Jersey 1983, ISBN 0-8108-1597-4 , pp. 56-66 (English).
  5. ^ A b John Haag: Caduff, Sylvia (1937—) | Encyclopedia.com. In: encyclopedia.com. Retrieved March 24, 2020 .
  6. ^ Theodore Strongin: Woman Conducts Life With Brahms; At 28, Mitropoulos Winner 'Goes Steady' With Music. In: The New York Times . January 21, 1966, accessed April 28, 2020 .
  7. ^ Fritz Schaub: Television: Sylvia Caduff wrote history. In: Lucerne newspaper . October 6, 2016, accessed April 27, 2020 .
  8. ↑ a b Bündner Kulturpreis 2003 for Sylvia Caduff and Oscar Peer. In: Canton of Graubünden. September 18, 2003, accessed March 24, 2020 .
  9. ^ LP "Mozart in Solingen" with Sylvia Caduff at Discogs
  10. ↑ female conductors | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. In: Berliner Philharmoniker. Retrieved March 24, 2020 .
  11. ↑ New Music / Music Feature / SoundArt: The Radio Week from October 29th. until 05.11.2017. In: Neue Musikzeitung . ConBrio Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, October 29, 2017, accessed on March 24, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Sabine Weber: “At the Pult Maestra ...” - conductors (1). In: SWR2 . November 4, 2019, accessed April 28, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Caduff, Sylvia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss conductor
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Chur