MAHLER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA GGMBH - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the MANAGEMENT TEAM
- Development and Management Assistant
Andreas Klein was born in St. Wendel, Germany. He received his first trombone lessons from Joachim Lorek and subsequently from Werner Schrietter. After two years studying law, he began a course of study at the Musikhochschule Freiburg, Germany, which he finished in 2001 at the Musikhochschule Hannover. He has studied with Branimir Slokar and Jonas Bylund, and has also had private lessons with Joseph Alessi in New York. Andreas was a member of the Bundesjugendorchester (National Youth Orchestra of Germany), the RIAS-Jugendorchester and the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester.
In 1996, he landed the role of principal trombonist of the Düsseldorf Symphony. He moved to Berlin in 1999, where he has since been principal trombonist of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester (DSO) Berlin. In 2001, Andreas joined the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. He is a member of the DSO brass quintet (CD recording "Round midnight" under the Label Cappriccio) and the brass ensemble brass partout, which has recorded three CDs under Swedish label BIS.
Andreas won first prize in the first International Trombone Competition in Aachen, Germany, in 1995. In 1993, his trombone quartet won the city of Leonberg's music award. He was awarded a fellowship from the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb (German Music Competition) Berlin in 1999, and was selected to perform in the Konzerte Junger Künstler (German Young Artists Concerts).
Andreas Klein has been principal trombonist of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra since 2007. He was a guest professor at the Universität der Künste (University of Arts) in Berlin from 2004 to 2017.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Anna Puig Torné has been a member of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra since 2009. She is also principal viola player of Camerata Bern and Camerata 432, and collaborates with other orchestras, including the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Orchestra Mozart, Maggio Fiorentino Musicale, and the Spanish ensemble BandArt under the leadership of Gordan Nikolic.
Anna has been invited as guest leader in the major orchestras of Spain, has made several solo appearances with orchestras, and is a member of various chamber music ensembles. She was previously the viola player of Dalia Quartet. Anna is regularly invited regularly to join chamber music festivals around Europe where she has the opportunity to play with fantastic musicians.
Anna is involved in a variety of music education projects around the world, including her position teaching viola and chamber music at the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu in Barcelona, and collaborates regularly with associations and organisations that develop projects to integrate and educate children at risk of exclusion.
She is presently recording the solo viola repertoire of Catalan composer Jordi Cervelló.
Born in Cervera, Spain, in 1982, Anna started her musical studies at the age of five with Paul Cortese. She continued her studies first with Walter Küssner and then with Tabea Zimmermann in Berlin.
Job Titles:
- Accountant
- Member of the MANAGEMENT TEAM
Job Titles:
- Business Development Manager
Christopher Dicken is the solo trumpet player of both the Mahler Chamber Orchestra (since 2003) and Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen (since 2000) and a member of the Luzern Festival Orchestra (since 2007). He is a founder member of WorldBrass and its Artistic Director.
Chris was born in Manchester England. From 1989 to 1994, he studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, during which time he was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, the European Union Youth Orchestra, the World Youth Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. Whilst in Scotland, Chris played regularly with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, as well as appearing in numerous performances with baroque and contemporary music ensembles. In 1997 he moved to Berlin, where he studied with Prof. Konradin Groth and a year later he enrolled in the Soloists' course at the State University of Music in Saarbrücken, studying with Prof. Peter Leiner.
Job Titles:
- ARTISTIC PARTNER
- Conductor / Conductor Laureate
Daniel Harding has played an integral role in the history and development of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra since the very beginning.
Since 1998, he has held different titles with the orchestra, shaping the MCO's sound through intensive work on repertoire ranging from opera and symphonic compositions to world premieres. Under the leadership of Daniel Harding, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra has traveled to 21 countries on 3 continents.
From 1998 to 2003, Daniel Harding was the MCO's Principal Guest Conductor. During this time, he led the MCO in extended residencies at the Festival International d'Art Lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence. Some of the most important opera productions staged during this time include Mozart's Don Giovanni and Britten's The Turn of the Screw. In 2003, Daniel Harding became the MCO's Music Director. In the next four years, he would play a formative role in shaping the orchestra's interpretation of core repertoire, especially the works of Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn. He also began to explore pieces from the Second Viennese School together with the MCO. In 2007, Daniel Harding assumed the position of Principal Conductor. Some notable projects undertaken during this period include a three-week residency at the Wiener Festwochen with Berg's Wozzeck and recordings with esteemed artists such as Janine Jansen and Isabelle Faust. Since 2011, Daniel Harding has been Conductor Laureate of the MCO.
At the Lucerne Festival, where the Mahler Chamber Orchestra appears as the core of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and can be heard in its own concert every year, some of the most memorable MCO concerts - featuring world premieres and performances of oratorios - were led by Daniel Harding. Some of these highlights include: the world premieres of Matthias Pintscher's Transir for Flute and Chamber Orchestra with Emmanuel Pahud (2006) and Wolfgang Rihm's Horn Concerto with Stefan Dohr (2014), as well as performances of Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri (2009), Mendelssohn's Elias (2010) and Schubert's Mass no. 6 (2012).
In March 2019, Daniel Harding and the MCO embarked on an extensive tour that brought them to Adelaide, where the MCO was orchestra in residence at the Adelaide Festival; to Tokyo; and to Shanghai. Since, the MCO and Daniel Harding have enjoyed regular collaborations with a wide span of repertoire and concert halls. In the season of 2023/2024, they will tour a number of prestigious summer festivals together with start pianist Daniil Trifonov.
Biography
Daniel Harding is the Music and Artistic Director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He was Music Director of the Orchestre de Paris from 2016 - 2019 and Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra from 2007 - 2017. He is honoured with the lifetime title of Conductor Laureate of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, with whom he has worked for over 20 years. In 2020, he was named Conductor in Residence of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande for the 2021-22 and 2022-23 seasons.
He is a regular visitor to the world's foremost orchestras, including the Wiener Philharmoniker, Berliner Philharmoniker, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Dresden Staatskapelle, London Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala. In 2005 he opened the season at La Scala, Milan, conducting a new production of Idomeneo. He later returned to conduct Salome, Il Prigioniero, Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci (for which he was awarded the prestigious Premio della Critica Musicale ‘Franco Abbiati'), Falstaff and Le nozze di Figaro. He has conducted Ariadne auf Naxos, Don Giovanni and Le nozze di Figaro at the Salzburg Festival with the Wiener Philharmoniker; The Turn of the Screw and Wozzeck at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Der fliegende Holländer at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Die Zauberflöte at the Wiener Festwochen, Pelléas et Mélisande at the Wiener Staatsoper and Wozzeck at the Theater an der Wien. Closely associated with the Aix-en-Provence Festival, he has conducted new productions of Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, The Turn of the Screw, La Traviata, Eugene Onegin and Le nozze di Figaro.
His recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, Mahler Symphony No. 10 with the Wiener Philharmoniker and Orff's Carmina Burana the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks both received widespread critical acclaim. For Virgin/EMI he has recorded Mahler Symphony No. 4 with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Brahms' Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen; Billy Budd with the London Symphony Orchestra (winner of a Grammy Award for best opera recording), Don Giovanni and The Turn of the Screw (awarded the "Choc de l'Année 2002", the "Grand Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros" and a Gramophone award) with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra; works by Lutosławski with Solveig Kringelborn and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra and works by Britten with Ian Bostridge and the Britten Sinfonia (awarded the "Choc de L'Annee 1998"). For BR Klassik he has released critically acclaimed recordings of Schumann Szenen aus Goethes Faust and Mahler Symphony No. 6. His performances of Mahler Symphony No. 1 and Beethoven Violin Concerto with Frank Peter Zimmerman are available on the Berliner Philharmoniker label. A regular collaborator with Harmonia Mundi, his latest recordings with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra include ‘The Wagner Project' with Matthias Goerne; Mahler Symphonies no. 5 & 9, Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem and a newly released Britten disc.
Daniel takes up the post of Music Director of Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome alongside his recent appointment as Music Director of Youth Music Culture the Greater Bay Area, as well as his role as Music and Artistic Director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, a position he will relinquish in 2025 after nineteen seasons.
In 2002 Daniel was awarded the title Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government and in 2017 nominated to the position Officier des Arts et Lettres. In 2012, he was elected a member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Music. In 2021, he was awarded a CBE in the New Year Honours. He is a qualified airline pilot.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- ARTISTIC PARTNER
- Conductor
- Conductor / Artistic Advisor
Daniele Gatti was appointed Artistic Advisor of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in 2016.
Daniele Gatti graduated as a composer and orchestra conductor at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan. He is Music Director of the Orchestra Mozart, Artistic Advisor of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Chief Conductor of the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and from 2024 he will be Chief Conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden.
He was Music Director of the Opera di Roma and held prestigious roles at musical institutions like Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Royal Opera House (London), Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Zürich Opernhaus and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and Filarmonica della Scala are just a few of the symphonic institutions he works with. Daniele Gatti was awarded Premio Abbiati as best conductor in 2015, and in 2016 was awarded Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in France and Grand Officer of Merit of the Italian Republic.
Some of the numerous and important new productions he has conducted include the Falstaff staged by Robert Carsen (in London, Milan, and Amsterdam); the Parsifal staged by Stefan Herheim opening the 2008 Bayreuther Festspiele (one of the very few Italian conductors to have been invited to the Wagnerian festival); the Parsifal staged by François Girard at the Metropolitan Opera in New York; four operas at the Salzburger Festspiele (Elektra, La bohème, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Il Trovatore).
Under Sony Classical, he has recorded works by Debussy and Stravinsky with the Orchestre National de France, and a DVD of the Parsifal staged at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Under the label RCO Live he has recorded Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, Mahler's Second Symphony, a DVD of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps together with Debussy's Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un Faune and La Mer, and a DVD of Strauss's Salome staged at the Dutch National Opera.
Job Titles:
- Principal
- Founding Member of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Emma Schied was awarded a scholarship to study with Celia Nicklin, Douglas Boyd and Christine Pendrill at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she graduated with First Class Honours.
She then studied at the Geneva Conservatoire de Musique with world-renowned teacher Maurice Bourgue.
Upon graduating, Emma was awarded a first prize with distinction, and in the same year won the Raymonnd Weil Prize. In 2004, she was nominated by Claudio Abbado for the European Förderpreis, which she was awarded. She has also won Her Royal Highness Princess Alice Prize, the Leila Bull Prize, the Macklin Bursary, and the John West Prize.
Emma is a founding member of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, with which she has played since 1997. In 2003 she became solo English horn in the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and, in 2009, solo oboe in the Budapest Festival Orchestra. She has been a member of the Bayerischer Rundfunk Orchestra since April 2016 and was solo Cor anglais at the Bayerischer Staatsoper from 2019 to 2021.
Emma is also a guest principal oboe and guest principal English horn in prestigious orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, Swedish Radio Orchestra, and the Westdeutscher Rundfunk Orchestra.
Emma has played with the Ensemble Paris Bastille and The Sabine Meyer Ensemble. She has also taught and coached musicians all over the world and is currently part of the Feel The Music programme, developed by the Mahler Chamber Orchestra for hearing-impaired children.
Job Titles:
- Member of the MANAGEMENT TEAM
- Senior Project Manager
Hélène Delanglez has been with the MCO since 2005. She started as an intern and spent several years working mainly on the administrative side of the orchestra's projects. Now, as project manager, she has a pivotal role - juggling all the different aspects of projects and working with all the tour's protagonists - which she enjoys very much.
Job Titles:
- Finance and Administration Manager
Job Titles:
- Member of the MANAGEMENT TEAM
- Director of Artistic Planning
Maggie Coe has been with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra since 2001. She began as an intern and then worked as production assistant and later Project Manager. She took on the role of Planning Manager in March 2015.
Maggie grew up in house where orchestral music was always on the radio or record player, and spent her free time playing trumpet and piano and singing in various choirs near her home in a suburb of Boston, USA. After graduating from college with a degree in Literature, she moved to Berlin.
Bearing rudimentary German skills and without the faintest idea of what was in store for her, she appeared at the MCO office (which at the time consisted of just 4 staff members) and was immediately assigned the task of sending out parts for entire operas like Pelléas et Mélisande, Fidelio, and Wozzeck.
She continued to work for the MCO while completing her studies in German literature at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin. Her responsibilities gradually expanded, and for several years during and after her studies she worked as Project Manager, organizing logistical details for the orchestra's tours all over Europe and world.
In her current position as Director of Artistic Planning, she is responsible for filling the orchestra's calender with projects, tours, and collaborations.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Orchestra in Gran Canaria
Mark has been a member of the orchestra in Gran Canaria ever since, and is also a founding member of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. He has played every project with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and has collaborated with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, NDR Hannover, Cadaquéz Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchester Zurich, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Ensemble Modern, and with most of the orchestras in Spain. This is in addition to solo performances at the Portuguese National Trombone Festival in Braga, and the Brazilian National Trombone Festival in Belem.
Job Titles:
- Stage Manager and Digital Project Coordinator
Matthias is the MCO's Stage Manager. As Stage Manager, he is usually the first person of the orchestra to arrive at the concert hall. He is responsible for setting up the stage, making sure that all musicians have enough space and feel comfortable while playing, as well as coordinating the logistics between the hall and the orchestra.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Member of the MANAGEMENT TEAM
- Geschäftsführer
Job Titles:
- ARTISTIC PARTNER
- Director of Marlboro Music Festival
- Founding Member of the Borletti - Buitoni Trust
Mitsuko Uchida, one of the greatest Mozart interpreters of our time, shares a long-term collaboration with the MCO, focused on Mozart's piano concertos. Mitsuko Uchida leads the orchestra from the keyboard.
The partnership brings Mitsuko Uchida and the MCO to major venues and multiple-concert residencies across the world. It kicked off in January 2016 with an extensive European tour with 5 concerts in Spain (Alicante, Valencia, Barcelona, Oviedo, and Bilbao) and further performances in Luxembourg, Salzburg and Frankfurt. Each concert included two piano concertos paired around Mozart's Divertimento K. 137, led by the MCO's concertmaster. The tour concluded with a chamber music concert with Mitsuko Uchida in Frankfurt.
In Autumn 2016, Mitsuko Uchida and the MCO toured Japan. This tour culminated in a residency at Tokyo's Suntory Hall on the occasion of the landmark venue's 30th anniversary. Mitsuko Uchida was featured with a Mozart cycle in the opening series of the hall in 1986. In Spring 2017, the MCO and Mitsuko Uchida performed in Perugia, Treviso, and Hamburg's newly-opened Elbphilharmonie.
Since 2016, Mitsuko Uchida has been an Artistic Partner of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, with whom she is currently engaged on a multi-season touring project in Europe, Japan and North America. She also appears regularly in recitals in Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, London, New York and Tokyo, and is a frequent guest at the Salzburg Mozartwoche and Salzburg Festival.
Job Titles:
- Member of the MANAGEMENT TEAM
- Director of Artistic Planning
Job Titles:
- Outreach and Education Manager
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- Principal Conductor of Orquesta Sinfónica Gurska
Vicente Alberola is Principal Conductor of Orquesta Sinfónica Gurska de Madrid, Guest Conductor of the Opera of Perm and Music Director of Orquestra Sinfónica Vigo 430. He is also Principal Clarinet of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Les Dissonances.
Vicente Alberola studied with Walter Boeykens at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, Belgium. At the same time, he took lessons with George Pieterson (of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra) and Larry Combs (of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra). For more than twenty years, Vicente Alberola was Principal Clarinet of the opera orchestras in Madrid and Galicia. In the past decade, he has been guest principal clarinet with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Les Dissonances and MMCK Tokyo Orchestra. With these groups, he has had the opportunity to perform the great symphonic repertoire under the batons of such conductors as Claudio Abbado, Mariss Jansons, Riccardo Muti, Daniele Gatti, Daniel Harding, Andris Nelsons, Gustavo Dudamel, Alan Gilbert and Nicolas Luisotti.
In 1996, Vicente Alberola's vocation as conductor began with Orquesta Joven de la Sinfónica de Galicia, of which he would be Artistic Director for eight years. In 2003, he was appointed Conductor of Joven Orquesta de la Ópera de Madrid; in 2007, he became Conductor of Joven Orquesta de Soria.
Vicente Alberola has conducted the following operas with Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid in Madrid's Teatro Real: Donizetti's Rita, Pucchini's La Bohème, Mozart's Don Giovanni, Stravinsky's Persephone, Montsalvatge's El Gato con botas, Tchaikovsky's Iolanta and Verdi's Macbeth. Most recently, he conducted performances of Donizetti's L'Elisir d'amore. At the same time, he has led symphonic concerts with Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid in the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, Orquesta Clásica Santa Cecilia, Opera Orchestra of Perm, Joven Orquesta Nacional de España, Orquesta Filarmónica de Valladolid, MMCK Tokyo and MusicaAeterna.