Julia Jones (conductor)
Julia Jones ( born April 28, 1961 in Droitwich, England) is a British conductor.
Life
Julia Jones was educated partly due to the Chetham's School of Music Manchester, University of Bristol and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. Mid-1980s, Jones left their homeland. In Germany they put through their work as an accompanist at the Cologne Opera and the Stuttgart State Theatre, the foundation for a successful career as a conductor. From 1991 to 1995 she was second Kapellmeister and Assistant Music Director Alicja Mounk in Ulm. From 1995 to 1997 it was first Kapellmeister at the Staatstheater Darmstadt. After several successful guest conductor in 1998 she moved as chief conductor of the opera at the Theater Basel. Since 2002 she has worked freelance and often conducted at the opera houses of Vienna ( State Opera and Volksoper ), Genoa (Teatro Carlo Felice), Frankfurt ( Frankfurt Opera ) and Berlin ( Staatsoper Unter den Linden ). Her repertoire encompasses all styles, but a special emphasis on the works of Giuseppe Verdi and Mozart. The reputation as a special Mozart connoisseur has brought, among other things, during the Salzburg Festival 2004, the Singspiel to direct The Abduction from the Seraglio in addition to a Mozart - Matinee. This work they had recently brought out in 2003 with great success at the Frankfurt Opera.
In the season 2005/2006 Julia Jones took over, among others, the musical director of the new production of Janáček 's opera The Excursions of Mr. Broucek at the Volksoper in Vienna, the new production of Mozart's Idomeneo at the Hamburg State Opera, as well as Mozart's early work La finta semplice at the Frankfurt Opera. Further engagements lead in the season 2006/2007 at the Staatstheater Stuttgart ( new production of the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet and Otello by Giuseppe Verdi ) and again at the Frankfurt Opera ( new production of Le nozze di Figaro, Mozart).
From the season 2008 / 09-2011 Julia Jones was the Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa Titulardirigentin in Lisbon.
In June 2010, she led a performance of La damnation de Faust Legend dramatique by Hector Berlioz at the Frankfurt Opera in Frankfurt am Main. In the same year, she first conducted an opera performance at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London.
In March 2011, Julia Jones made her debut at the Semperoper Dresden with Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, and in April 2011 as conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden in an orchestra concert.