CV: Jonathan Stockhammer
Born in Los Angeles in 1969, conductor Jonathan Stockhammer is one of the most versatile conductors of the younger generation
and combines an already broad experience in the field of contemporary music with a unique and impassioned approach to the
classical symphonic and operatic repertoire. His professional debut came in 1994, substituting at short notice for a series
of concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. After this successful collaboration, he went on to assist Music
Director Esa-Pekka Salonen on the Orchestra's European tour the same year and in subsequent seasons in Los Angeles
Jonathan Stockhammer has worked with such renowned orchestras and opera companies as the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra,
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, National Opera of Lyon, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Dutch Touring Opera,
and has appeared in a variety of international music festivals, including Cologne's Triennale, Hamburg's Musikfest, Berlin
Festival, Young Euro Classic, UltraSchall, Norway's Ultima Festival, Belgium's Ars Musica, and the Holland Festival. Since
moving to Cologne in 1998 to take up a post at the Music Academy, he has begun close collaborations with well-known European
ensembles, including Ensemble Modern Frankfurt, MusikFabrik Cologne, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, Ensemble Resonanz Hamburg,
Ensemble Recherche Freiburg, Nederlands Blazers Ensemble, de Volharding Orkest and Oslo Sinfonietta. In addition, he has been
principal conductor of Holland’s Slagwerkgroep Den Haag since 2000.
Opera comprises a central part of Jonathan Stockhammer's musical activities. In past seasons, he led, to great acclaim, productions
of Carmen at the Freiburg Theater, Dreigroschenoper at Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Die Fledermaus in Aachen as well
as Gianni Schicchi at the Tanglewood Music Center. In the spring of 2002, he conducted performances of Eotvos' Three Sisters
at the Opera National de Lyon as well as on tour in Holland with the Dutch Touring Opera. In Berlin, he premiered Karl-Heinz
Dittrich's Zerbrochene Bilder and Enno Poppe’s Interzone, in Oslo, he conducted Marc Anthony Turnage's Twice Through the Heart
in the first production of Oslo's New Opera Company. In the season of 2005/2006, he returned to the Opera National de Lyon
for the French premiere of Dusapin’s Faustus. Furthermore, he was reinvited to the Ultima Festival Oslo to conduct the premiere
of Ophelias: Death by the Water Singing by Henrik Hellstenius
Highlights of season 2006/2007 are Jonathan Stockhammer’s debuts with the SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, Deutsches
Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France as well as Sydney Symphony Orchestra. With the Opera
National de Lyon and Dusapins Faustus, he appears in November 2006 at Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, and in April/May 2007,
he conducts Eine Florentinische Tragödie by Zemlinsky and Luci mie traditrici by Sciarrino in Lyon. Furthermore, he returns
to the Berliner Festspiele with Ensemble Resonanz and to the Ultima Festival Oslo with NRK Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Bodø
Sinfonietta and Opera Vest.
In November 2003, BMG Classics/RCA Red Seal released Greggery Peccary & Other Persuasions, a CD with works by Frank Zappa,
which was recorded by Jonathan Stockhammer and the Ensemble Modern after concerts in Germany and Paris. This CD received an
ECHO Classics Award in November 2004.
Jonathan Stockhammer studied Chinese and Political Science, before taking up his studies in Composition and Conducting. After
his graduation, he participated in master classes with Jorma Panula, Myung-Whun Chung, Ilya Mussin and Peter Eötvös. He received
grants and awards from the Accademia Chigiana Siena, the Dutch Kirill Kondrashin Foundation and Tanglewood Music Center, where
he worked with Robert Spano and Seiji Ozawa.
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