GREGOR BÜHL
Conductor
''Gregor Bühl not only led the formidably playing Staatsorchester safely through the depths of this score, but also animated the orchestra to make music that will not soon be forgotten: emphatic, gripping, urgent."
- Frank Armbruster, Stuttgarter Zeitung
Strauss, Bartok, Staatsorchester Stuttgart
''The orchestra und Gregor Bühl played with burning intensity. In the second act Bühl created wonderful soft orchestral colours, especially in the love duett between Tristan and Isolde.''
- Lars Hedblad, Svenska Dagbladet
Tristan, Stockholm
Fidelio act 1
Götterdämmerung Trauermarsch
Musical Discoveries - Walter Braunfels
Gregor Bühl is a distinguished conductor who gained international recognition with his “Ring des Nibelungen” cycle at the Royal Opera House in Stockholm. His interpretation was met with enthusiastic praise from both audiences and critics alike and he went on to conduct many notable performances in there: “Tristan und Isolde”, “Samson et Dalila”, “Werther”, “Figaro” and celebrated new productions of Bartók’s “Bluebeard’s Castle” as well as Leonard Bernstein’s “Trouble in Tahiti”.
In recent seasons, Bühl has been a regular guest at prestigious venues including the Royal Opera in Copenhagen, Hamburg State Opera, and Stuttgart State Opera with performances of “Fidelio”, “Madama Butterfly”, “Il Trovatore”, “La Cenerentola”, “Rigoletto”, “Pique Dame”, “L’elisir d’amore”, “Les Contes d’Hoffmann”, and “Tosca”. His long-standing collaboration with the Staatstheater Hannover has seen him conduct several acclaimed new productions, including the German premiere of Manfred Trojahn’s “Orest” and a highly praised staging of Verdi’s “La Traviata”. Additionally, he conducted the world premiere of Stewart Copeland’s opera ‘Electric Saint’ at the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar in 2021, which was highly celebrated.
Bühl’s impressive discography has included recordings of “Ring des Nibelungen” (Royal Opera House in Stockholm), Walter Braunfels’ orchestral works with the Vienna RSO and Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie (Capriccio label), as well as, American works for clarinet with Sharon Kam and the London Symphony Orchestra. Two of the latter recordings have received the ‘Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik’.
His North American debut took place at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto with “Fidelio”, and his South American debut followed at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires with Lehár’s “The Merry Widow”. Bühl has also guest-conducted at the Opéra National de Montpellier, Semperoper Dresden - where he led the rarely performed Strauss adaptation of Mozart’s “Idomeneo” - Deutsche Oper Berlin, and Leipzig Opera, among others.
Bühl’s extensive concert engagements have taken him across Germany, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, and Israel. He has worked with renowned radio symphony orchestras in Vienna, Berlin, Hamburg, Saarbrücken, Hilversum, and Hanover, as well as the Finnish and Danish radio orchestras. His guest conducting has also brought him to the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Staatskapelle Weimar, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra, and Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz.
Gregor Bühl began his conducting career as an assistant to Gerd Albrecht at the Hamburg State Opera before becoming Principal Conductor at the Staatstheater Hannover in 1995. During his six-year tenure, he conducted a wide-ranging repertoire including both classic German and Italian operas and significant contemporary works.
Bühl started his conducting studies at the Düsseldorf Musikhochschule under Wolfgang Trommer. He further honed his skills through master classes with Ferdinand Leitner, Gary Bertini, and Gerd Albrecht. In 1995, he received the second prize at the Nikolai Malko Conducting Competition in Copenhagen and, in 1993, the Culture Prize of the Berenberg Bank in Hamburg. He has been awarded scholarships from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and DAAD. From 2016-2022, Bühl was a professor at the Oslo Opera Academy.
"Bühl lifts Bruckner to new heights."
Karl Gunnar Ahlén, SvD
DISCOGRAPHY
“Under the baton of Gregor Bühl, the romantic sigh melodies blossomed more beautifully
and magnificently than ever before.”
Wolfram Goertz, WAZ
REPERTOIRE - OPERA
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Don Giovanni Idomeneo (Strauss Version) Le nozze di Figaro Die Zauberflöte
Giacomo Puccini La Bohème Gianni Schicchi Madama Butterfly Suor Angelica Il tabarro Tosca
Gioacchino Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia Il viaggio a Reims Elisabetta, regina d’Inghilterra Cenerentola
Richard Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos Elektra Der Rosenkavalier
Manfred Trojahn Enrico Was ihr wollt Orest
Peter Tchaikovsky Eugen Onegin Pique Dame
Giuseppe Verdi Simone Boccanegra Rigoletto La Traviata Il Trovatore Un ballo in maschera La Forza del Destino Don Carlo
Richard Wagner Der fliegende Holländer Tannhäuser Lohengrin Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Das Rheingold Die Walküre Siegfried Götterdämmerung Parsifal Tristan und Isolde
Giuseppe Verdi Simone Boccanegra Rigoletto La Traviata Il Trovatore Un ballo in maschera La Forza del Destino Don Carlo
Béla Bartók
Blaubart
Gaetano Donizetti
L’elisir d’amore
Albert Lortzing
Der Wildschütz
Camille Saint-Saëns
Samson et Dalila
Georges Bizet
Carmen
Friedrich Freiherr von Flotow
Martha
Jules Massenet
Werther
Alfred Schnittke
Historia von D. Johann Fausten
Ludvig van Beethoven
Fidelio
Engelbert Humperdinck
Hänsel und Gretel
Otto Nicolai
Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor
Bedřich Smetana
verkaufte Braut
Leonard Bernstein
On the Town
Trouble in Tahiti
Franz Lehár
Die lustige Witwe
Jaques Offenbach
Les contes d‘Hoffmann
Carl Maria von Weber
Der Freischütz
Udo Zimmermann
Die weiße Rose
REPERTOIRE - ORCHESTRA
Bartók, Béla Concerto for Orchestra Divertimento Music for strings, percussion and celesta Tanzsuite Viola concerto
Beethoven, Ludwig van Concerto for Piano no.3 Concerto for Piano no.4 Concerto for Piano no.5 Coriolan Overture Egmont Overture Leonore 3, Overture Musik für Ritterballet Symphony no.s 1 - 9 Tripelkonzert Two romances for violin solo
Bernstein, Leonard Candide Overture On the Town Prelude, Fugue and Riffs Serenade
Brahms, Johannes Doppelkonzert Haydn Variationen Klavierkonzert no.1 and no.2 Symphony no. 1 - 4 Violin Concerto in D Major, op. 77
Braunfels, Walter Phantastische Erscheinungen eines Themas von Hector Berlioz, op.25 Sinfonia Brevis, op.69 Divertimento, op. 42 Serenade, op. 20 Don Gil von den grünen Hosen – Ouvertüre, op.35 Ariels Gesang, op. 18 2 Gesänge nach Hölderlin, op.27 Schottische Fantasie, op. 47 Präludium und Fuge, op.36 Hebridentänze, op.70 Hexensabbat, op.8 Konzertstück, op.64
Britten, Benjamin Piano concerto The Young Person’s Guide To The Orchestra Variations on a Theme of Frank Brigde
Dvorak, Anton Cello Concerto Der Wassermann Overture Streicherserenade Symphony no. 8 Symphony no. 9 (New World)
Elgar, Edward Cello Concerto King Olaf (Oratorio) Pomp & Circumstance
Haydn, Josef Symphony no. 88 Symphony no. 94 (Paukenschlag) Symphony no. 95 Symphony no.100 Symphony no.101 in D Major (The Clock) Symphony no.103 Symphony no.104 (London) Trompeten Konzert
Mendelssohn, Felix Bartholdy Hebrides Overture Sommernachtstraum Symphony no. 3 (Scottish) Symphony no. 4 Violin Concerto
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Clarinet Concerto Klavierkonzert Nr. 20 Klavierkonzert Nr.21 Klavierkonzert Nr.23 Klavierkonzert Nr.27 Sinfonia Concertante Symphony no. 35 Symphony no. 36 Symphony no. 38 Symphony no. 39 Symphony no. 40
Ravel, Maurice Bolero Daphne & Chloe Suite no. 2 Le tombeau du Couperin Ma mere l’oye Piano Concerto in G Valse nobles et sentimentales
Schubert, Franz Symphony no. 4 Symphony no. 5 Symphony no. 8 Symphony no. 9 (C Major) Symphony no.10 Wanderer Fantasie (Liszt)
Schumann, Robert Cello Concerto Klavierkonzert Konzertstück für 4 Hörner Manfred Overture Symphony no. 1 - 4
Strauss, Richard Also sprach Zarathustra Der Bürger als Edelmann – Suite Don Quixote Macbeth Till Eulenspiegel Tod und Verklärung
Stravinsky, Igor Apollon Musagete Circus polka Dumbarton Oaks Histoire du soldat L’oiseau de feu Le sacre du printemps Pulcinella (whole ballett) Suite für kleines Orchester
Tschaikowsky, Pioter Ilych Capriccio Italien Dornröschen Rokoko Variationen Symphony no. 5 Symphony no. 6 (Pathetique) Violin Concerto
Weber, Carl Maria von Clarinet Concarto no. 1 Clarinet Concerto no. 2 Concertino Euryanthe – Overture Oberon – Overture
Arutjunjan, A.G.
Trumpet Concerto
Atterberg, Kurt
Symphony no.5
Blech, Leo
Waldspaziergang
Bruch, Max
Double concerto for Viola and Clarinet
Debussy, Claude
L’apres midi d’un faune
Première Rhapsodie
Dukas, Paul
Der Zauberlehrling
Glinka, Mikhail
Ruslan und Ludmilla/Overture
Gould, Glenn
Derivations
Hindemith, Paul
Mathis der Mahler
(Symphony)
Symphonische
Metamorphosen
Ibert, Jean
Concerto for Flute
Mahler, Gustav
Symphony no 1
Milhaud, Darius
Le Carnaval d’Aix
Scaramouche
Respighi, Ottorino
Fontane di Roma
Rietz, Julius
Clarinet concerto
Shostakovich, Dimitri
Symphony no. 5
Symphony no. 7
Symphony no. 9
Sibelius, Jean
Finlandia
Symphony no 2
Violin Concerto
Berg, Alban
Violinkonzert
Chopin, Frédéric
Concerto for Piano no.1
Françaix, Jean
Thema con Variazioni
Grieg, Edvard
Peer Gynt Suite
Berlioz, Hector
Le Carnival romain
Bizet, George
Arlesienne Suites nos. 1 & 2
Copland, Aaron
Clarinet Concerto
Rodeo (Suite)
Creston, Paul
Marimba Concertino
Gade, Nils W.
Nachklänge zu Ossian
Symphony no. 8
Gershwin, George
An American in Paris
Hartmann, Karl Amadeus
Symphony no. 8
Lalo, Edouard
Symphonie Espagnole
Langgaard, Rued
Symphony no. 4
Lutoslawski, Witold
Cello Concerto
Concerto for Orchestra
Nielsen, Carl
Clarinet Concerto
Violinkonzert
Rimsky Korsakow,
Nikolaj
Sheherazade
Poulenc, Francis
Les Biches Orchestral Suite
Prokofiev, Sergei
Liebe zu den 3 Orangen
(Suite)
Second Violin Concerto
The Classical Symphony
Shaw, Artie
Jazz Concerto for Clarinet
Szymanowski, Karol
Second Violin Concerto
Taneyev, Sergey
Ivanovich
Violin Concerto
Verdi, Giuseppe
La Forza del Destino
(Overture)
Requiem
Wagner, Richard
Wesendonck Lieder
Webern, Anton
Passacaglia op. 1
Weill, Kurt
Kleine Dreigroschenmusik