FINANCIAL TIMES, 16/2/2010 --- Jonathan Stockhammer conducts with sophisticated poise.
DIE WELT, 17/2/2010 --- Jonathan Stockhammer conducts the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France with a refined sense of sound and aesthetic subtleness. Intermezzo with the Bochum Symphony Orchestra
RUHRNACHRICHTEN BOCHUM 15/6/2009 --- The Bochum Symphony Orchestra gave a brilliant closure to its concert series Intermezzo in the Thürmer-Saal. (...) The final programme of Intermezzo was completely dedicated to the element Air. A fresh wind blew through the hall with young conductor Jonathan Stockhammer, who offered to his audience the most extreme contrasts.
WAZ BOCHUM, 15/6/2009 --- To begin with, the audience witnessed a golden, spirited performance of Haydn's Symphony No.8, "Le soir". Conducted by Jonathan Stockhammer with elegance and gripping concentration. The third part, with the soloistic part of the lowest string instruments was particularly interesting here. Then followed a performance of "Landscapes VI (Cloudscapes)", by Toshio Hosokawa. Intially quite soft, it perpetually sounded as if a continuous wind was blowing through the orchestra. A swelling meditative music with great effect. Premiere of Wolfgang Rihm's Proserpina at Schwetzingen Festival / 2 May 2009
DAS ORCHESTER, 8/7/2009 --- The Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, every stand playing thoughtfully and with excellence, is conducted by Jonathan Stockhammer with a great feeling for the timbres of the score.
HANNOVERSCHE ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG, 5/5/2009 --- (...) the splendidly disposed SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and the ladies of the SWR Vocal Ensemble under the most proficient Jonathan Stockhammer (...).
DIE WELT, 4/5/2009 --- The SWR Vocal Ensemble and the SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra revealed under the baton of the precise Jonathan Stockhammer a wonderful sound on the finest golden background composed by Rihm. They endowed upon the splendid Schwetzinger Festspiele a significant (...) world premiere.
ESSLINGER ZEITUNG, 4/5/2009 --- Jonathan Stockhammer and the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra perform the new score including the quotations from Gluck's "Reigen seliger Geister" or Mozart's Aria "Queen of the Night" in bright clarity.
BADISCHE ZEITUNG, 4/5/2009 --- Jonathan Stockhammer, the musicians of the SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and the ladies of the SWR Vocal Ensemble perform this well-known but ever surprising score with utmost care and precision, and are most attentive, musical and ever-present accompanists of an exemplary soloist.
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KÖLNER STADT-ANZEIGER, 17/1/2009- Debut at WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne --- But Jonathan Stockhammer became the audience's favourite. (...) With each move, the agile, alert man radiates precision and ease which had a relaxing yet captivating effect on both the WDR Symphony Orchestra and the well attended Philharmonie. (...) Leonard Bernstein's Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story" seemed to grow from his body which danced from the soles of his feet to the tips of his fingers.
KLASSIK.COM, 23/12/2008 - Release of the Rihm CD with the RSO Stuttgart --- Under the baton of Jonathan Stockhammer, the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra demonstrates right from the beginning of the CD its knowledge of the works by the composition professor with the Symphony No.1 op.3, which was written in 1969....more
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GIESSENER ALLGEMEINE, 13/7/2008 - concert with the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn --- The concert was an adventurous journey through music history requiring high assurance of style both of musicians and conductor. (...) The petite Stockhammer demonstrated impressive abilities and charisma. ...more
HEILBRONNER STIMME, 15/7/2008 --- Stockhammer has performed the task perfectly from the very beginning and was noticably tuned to the same wavelength with the orchestra. The lively and on his own way elegant maestro conducted this cheerful Mozart evening....more
RUHR NACHRICHTEN, 20/4/2008 - of the concertante performance of Pascal Dusapin's opera Faustus, the last night in Essen --- The orchestra of the national opera of Lyon presented itself as a brilliant formation. Compliments must also be given here to the precise work of its conductor, Jonathan Stockhammer. He let the music flow as a continuous current of energy, never losing the tension, nor the balance of sound.
LEIPZIGER VOLKSZEITUNG, 18/12/2007 --- The guest conductor allows the orchestra room to breathe, bringing the strings organically to thrive, and setting gleaming highlights with impressive brass. With an unusual programme, an exceptional soloist and a cultivated orchestra, an exceedingly inspiring concert.
LAUSITZER RUNDSCHAU, 31/3/2007 --- In an exciting evening with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester under Jonathan Stockhammer, Frank Michael Beyer's Viola Concerto "Notte di Pasqua" (world premiere) was set against the Opus "Skyscape" by Toshio Hosokawa (first European performance). Despite rigorous virtuosity from the viola (Tabea Zimmermann was excellent), Beyer's reflection on the Easter vigil is characterised by a great profundity. In contrast to this, cumulating waves unfolding skywards in Hosokawa's tone poem evoke a buddhist aspiration to a unity with nature. An instructive dialogue between different cultures!"
TURUN SANOMAT, 7/2/2007 - concert with the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra --- Stravinsky's Petrouchka was an entertaining, yet sophisticated musical experience. Jonathan Stockhammer's conducting was very clear and meaningful, and the orchestra played at a correspondingly high level. Stockhammer styled the Hitchcockian thriller Petrouchka with countless exciting details, contrasts and thousands of colours.
LEIPZIGER VOLKSZEITUNG, 3/1/2007 - MDR New Year Concert, Gewandhaus Leipzig --- One cannot help but hear that rhythm and energy are at the very top of Stockhammer´s musical agenda - and for these dances (Dvořák) that's not a bad thing. But naturally there is more than that there. Opulent inner-voices bloom between the rattling of cymbals and chuntering of the double bass, in a way only Dvorak could have devised. The metre lurches again and again, spiritedly lending a stable platform to this romp. And it is on this platform that the elegant, precise and demanding Stockhammer moves so competently and sensuously as to let the ravishing strands of the cellos and violas, second violins, woodwind and brass flourish.
Finnish Radio debut, March 2006
HUFVUDSTADSBLAD 5/3/2006 --- The opening concert of Musica nova, which presented music by contemporary American composers, focused on the art of writing music for orchestra. All four works by three composers indulged in finely tuned treatment of the orchestra and the skill of making a big symphony orchestra sound great. (...) The conductor Jonathan Stockhammer who was born in America and lives in Germany, did a fantastic job. Under his baton, the RSO developed a brilliant sound, and this is exactly how new music has to be played - even when the score is complicated, every little detail was perfectly clear.
HELSINGIN SANOMAT, 5/3/2006 --- Three of the most important American composers were presented in the opening concert of Musica Nova. (...) Jonathan Stockhammer led the RSO brilliantly; in the two works by Thomas, it sounded like an enormous chamber orchestra.
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ANACLASE, 20/3/2006 - Faustus premiere at Opera National de Lyon --- Credit is definitely due to the Orchestre de l'Opera de Lyon under the baton of the American conductor Jonathan Stockhammer who gives us ninety minutes of remarkable homogeneity, precision and dramatic intensity....more
RESMUSICA, 18/3/2006 --- Subtly and intelligently led by Jonathan Stockhammer, the Lyon orchestra sounds admirable..."
