Bruno Weil

Bruno Weil ( * November 24, 1949 in Hahnstätten ) is a German conductor.

Life and work

Bruno Weil is one of the last pupil of Hans Swarovsky. He became world -famous overnight by his jump-in for Herbert von Karajan at the Salzburg Festival. Because initially conducted in Wiesbaden and Braunschweig. In Augsburg, Duisburg, he was musical director. Since 2003 he directs the Cappella Coloniensis, with whom he produced numerous world premiere recordings for BMG. He was appointed as a professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich in 2001.

Bruno Weil conducted numerous internationally renowned orchestra, the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic, the Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Canadian Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, whose principal guest conductor he is, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra Sydney, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, Orchestre des Champs- Elysées, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Hamburg State Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Georgian Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestre Symphonique de Monte Carlo, the NHK Orchestra Tokyo, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.

At the Vienna State Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Dresden Semper Opera, the Cologne Opera, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, at the Hamburg State Opera and the Salzburg Festival ( debut with Don Giovanni as a stand-in for Herbert von Karajan ), he led a number of ideas. In 1992 he gave his debut with Così fan tutte at the Glyndebourne Festival. At the Vienna State Opera, he has conducted several hundred repertoire performances, mostly the operas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He also led numerous new productions at the Vienna Volksoper, the award-winning critique of the premiere of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro in a production by Marco Arturo Marelli 1992, which was broadcast live by numerous television and will be broadcast regularly to this day.

Many of Weil's CD recordings have received high and highest awards from the Critics. (Cannes Classical Award 1996 Absolute Sound magazine: Record of the YearCD Review: CD of the month, German Record Prize Classic - Echo Klassik Award 1996, 1997 and 1999, Choc de l' année du Monde de la Musique, Fono Forum: star of the Month. )

The focus of his repertoire is the Viennese Classicism. It also promotes the music in the sense of historical performance practice, so by its annually -find 1993-2011 in Irsee Monastery Festival Sound & Space. In addition, he directs the Bach Festival in Carmel -by-the -Sea. Weil is also a frequent guest conductor at international festivals.

Since 2008, Bruno Weil " pacemaker " of Tom Wahlig Foundation, which is committed to the research and cure of spastic paraplegia.

Pictures of Bruno Weil

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