Eckehard Stier (Conductor, APO)
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Eckehard Stier is the Chief Conductor and Music Director of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in New Zealand, General Music Director of the city of Görlitz and Music Director of the New Lausitz Philharmonie. With a repertoire of 70 stage works and twice as many symphonic works, Eckehard Stier is without a doubt a remarkable figure in the newest generation of young conductors. Today's musical personality, Eckehard Stier, is the logical consequence of a lifetime of experience, beginning as a boy soprano as the section leader in Dresden's world renowned "Kreuzchor". As a student in the music conservatory "Carl Maria von Weber" in Dresden he was the leader of the Conservatory Orchestra, and at the young age of 25 staff conductor with the Opera Theater of Chemnitz Germany. After his success in a new production of Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer in Görlitz he was named Chief Conductor of the New Lausitz Philharmonic Orchestra. His broad concert repertoire has made him a popular guest with such orchestras as the Sächsischen Staatskapelle Dresden, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Staatskapelle Halle, Robert Schumann Philharmonie Chemnitz, MDR- Sinfonieorchester, Dresdner Sinfonikern, Münchner Symphonikern and the NRT Radio Orchester Zagreb. His keen sense for the opera stage has led to guest appearances where he has conducted such works as La Bohéme, Der fliegende Holländer, Fidelio and Die Jungfrau von Orleans in such Theaters as the Comic Opera Berlin, the Nurmberg Opera, the Staatsoper Hannover and the Strassbourg Opera. In addition to his conducting activities in all areas of classical music, his enormous affinity for jazz music has made him a popular guest in "Big Jazz Concerts" with philharmonic forces. He conducted the German premier of Howard Brubeck's Dialogues for Jazz-Combo and Orchestra in the Kurt Weill city of Dessau. His appearances as pianist in various jazz formations in the last year led to a recording of a "Jazz Ballad CD" with saxaphonist Ive Kanew. Source: Eckehard Stier |
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