Steven Sloane
American conductor Steven Sloane is a versatile and dedicated musician. A visionary, Sloane's extraordinarily creative concepts have garnered him respect in artistic circles, as well as in the realm of cultural politics.
Steven Sloane, a former student of Eugene Ormandy, Franco Ferrara, and Gary Bertini, is currently head conductor of two dynamic ensembles. Since becoming music director of the Bochumer Symphoniker in 1994, Steven Sloane has transformed the ensemble into the leading orchestra of the German Ruhrgebiet region. He was also the driving influence behind the soon to be built Bochum Music Center, which will give the orchestra its own hall for the first time and provide a new cultural centre for the city.
In 2007, Steven Sloane also became principal conductor of the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra. His tenure began at a time of exciting cultural change for Stavanger, during which the city was named European Cultural Capital of 2008, the orchestra enjoyed a notable increase in size, and plans were made for the symphony to move to a new concert hall by 2012.
As artistic director of Ruhr 2010, Steven Sloane experienced an exciting year full of resounding highlights such as the successful Day of Song, the finale of which featured Steven Sloane conducting a choir of 65,000. For the Henze-Project, 40 institutions took part in over 200 performances of composer Hans Werner Henze's works, including the world premiere of the youth-opera Gisela, directed by Steven Sloane, in September 2010.
Steven Sloane's original programming concepts have been awarded twice with the title Best Concert Program by the Deutscher Musikverleger-Verband. One of his most noteworthy programs was his Mahler-Ives cycle with the Bochum Symphony in the Essener Philharmonie in 2007. His debut at the Salzburg Festival will mark the start of his 2011/2012 season, in which he will also conduct a Beethoven program at the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and give his debut at the Holland Festival.
A well-developed intuition for working with voices has made Steven Sloane a popular opera conductor. He has directed the Spoleto Festival (1996-2000) and was artistic director of Opera North in Leeds (1999-2003), where he conducted rarely performed works such as Shostakovich's operetta Cheryomushki and Schumann's Genoveva, in addition to traditional repertoire such as Tosca, Falstaff, and Tristan and Isolde. He has conducted at Covent Garden (Le nozze di Figaro), the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Das schlaue Füchslein), the Houston Grand Opera (The Makropoulos Affair), and at festivals in Hong Kong (Salome) and Santa Fe (Katja Kabanova). In 2011, he returned to Spoleto as guest conductor.
Steven Sloane has championed contemporary music throughout his career, most notably as music director of the American Composers Orchestra (2002-2006), with which he premiered many new compositions at Carnegie Hall in New York. In 2006, he premiered Elliot Goldenthal's opera Grendel at the Los Angeles Opera. That same year, he and the Los Angeles Opera opened the Lincoln Center Festival. In 2008, he returned to Lincoln Center with the Bochumer Symphoniker to perform the spectacular RuhrTriennale production of Bernd Alois Zimmermann's opera Die Soldaten. Also in 2008, he conducted the world premiere of Stewart Wallace's Bonesetter's Daughter at the San Francisco Opera.
Steven Sloane has worked with top orchestras since the beginning of his career, including in Israel where he took up residence in 1981. He was named first Kapellmeister of the Frankfurt Opera in 1988, conductor of the New York City Opera in 1990, and music director of the Long Beach Opera in Los Angeles in 1992. Steven Sloane regularly guest conducts the world's leading orchestras, including the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony, Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra, hr-Sinfonieorchester, Philharmonia Orchestra London, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Steven Sloane, a former student of Eugene Ormandy, Franco Ferrara, and Gary Bertini, is currently head conductor of two dynamic ensembles. Since becoming music director of the Bochumer Symphoniker in 1994, Steven Sloane has transformed the ensemble into the leading orchestra of the German Ruhrgebiet region. He was also the driving influence behind the soon to be built Bochum Music Center, which will give the orchestra its own hall for the first time and provide a new cultural centre for the city.
In 2007, Steven Sloane also became principal conductor of the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra. His tenure began at a time of exciting cultural change for Stavanger, during which the city was named European Cultural Capital of 2008, the orchestra enjoyed a notable increase in size, and plans were made for the symphony to move to a new concert hall by 2012.
As artistic director of Ruhr 2010, Steven Sloane experienced an exciting year full of resounding highlights such as the successful Day of Song, the finale of which featured Steven Sloane conducting a choir of 65,000. For the Henze-Project, 40 institutions took part in over 200 performances of composer Hans Werner Henze's works, including the world premiere of the youth-opera Gisela, directed by Steven Sloane, in September 2010.
Steven Sloane's original programming concepts have been awarded twice with the title Best Concert Program by the Deutscher Musikverleger-Verband. One of his most noteworthy programs was his Mahler-Ives cycle with the Bochum Symphony in the Essener Philharmonie in 2007. His debut at the Salzburg Festival will mark the start of his 2011/2012 season, in which he will also conduct a Beethoven program at the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and give his debut at the Holland Festival.
A well-developed intuition for working with voices has made Steven Sloane a popular opera conductor. He has directed the Spoleto Festival (1996-2000) and was artistic director of Opera North in Leeds (1999-2003), where he conducted rarely performed works such as Shostakovich's operetta Cheryomushki and Schumann's Genoveva, in addition to traditional repertoire such as Tosca, Falstaff, and Tristan and Isolde. He has conducted at Covent Garden (Le nozze di Figaro), the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Das schlaue Füchslein), the Houston Grand Opera (The Makropoulos Affair), and at festivals in Hong Kong (Salome) and Santa Fe (Katja Kabanova). In 2011, he returned to Spoleto as guest conductor.
Steven Sloane has championed contemporary music throughout his career, most notably as music director of the American Composers Orchestra (2002-2006), with which he premiered many new compositions at Carnegie Hall in New York. In 2006, he premiered Elliot Goldenthal's opera Grendel at the Los Angeles Opera. That same year, he and the Los Angeles Opera opened the Lincoln Center Festival. In 2008, he returned to Lincoln Center with the Bochumer Symphoniker to perform the spectacular RuhrTriennale production of Bernd Alois Zimmermann's opera Die Soldaten. Also in 2008, he conducted the world premiere of Stewart Wallace's Bonesetter's Daughter at the San Francisco Opera.
Steven Sloane has worked with top orchestras since the beginning of his career, including in Israel where he took up residence in 1981. He was named first Kapellmeister of the Frankfurt Opera in 1988, conductor of the New York City Opera in 1990, and music director of the Long Beach Opera in Los Angeles in 1992. Steven Sloane regularly guest conducts the world's leading orchestras, including the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony, Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra, hr-Sinfonieorchester, Philharmonia Orchestra London, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
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