Steven Sloane

conductor

contact

Karoline Jacob

kj(at)karstenwitt.com

+49 30 214 594-221

Yan Dribinsky

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General Management (except USA; Opera EU: with Sorek Artists)

Dates

14.10. 20:00
Henry Crown Hall Jerusalem

Tzvi Avni, Moses on Mt. Nebo

Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 22 in E-flat major 'The Philosopher''

Udi Perlman, Vehigianu, for Soprano and Orchestra

Gustav Mahler, Sinfonie Nr. 1 D-Dur 'Titan'

Hila Baggio, soprano

Steven Sloane, conductor

Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra

biography

Steven Sloane, conductor

American-Israeli conductor Steven Sloane is a visionary whose creative concepts and outstanding artistic merits have garnered respect in artistic circles, as well as in the realm of cultural politics. A student of Eugene Ormandy, Franco Ferrara and Gary Bertini, he quickly set off for an international career and served as Music Director of the Spoleto Festival USA, of Opera North in Leeds, of the American Composers Orchestra, as Principal Conductor of the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, as well as Artistic Director of the Cultural Capital of Europe Ruhr.2010. Steven Sloane is a frequent guest with prestigious orchestras, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Sydney Symphony, Tokyo Metropolitan, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra London, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Steven Sloane has recently been named Music Director of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra beginning in the 2020/21 season, and he continues as Principal Guest Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Malmö Opera Sweden, where he will feature in a new production of Tosca in 2019/20.

As the long-term General Music Director of the Bochum Symphony, which he transformed into one of Germany’s leading orchestras, Steven Sloane was instrumental in the building and realization of the orchestra’s own music centre, the Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr, he inaugurated the hall in 2016 to international acclaim. Current highlights with the Bochum Symphony include a Ligeti Requiem at the RuhrTriennale Festival 2019, as well as the German Premiere of David Langs new opera Prisoner of the state in May 2020, co-commissioned with the New York Philharmonic, Rotterdam's De Doelen, London’s Barbican Centre, Barcelona’s l’Auditori, Bruges’s Concertgebouw and Malmö Opera.

A sought-after opera conductor, Steven Sloane’s engagements have taken him to the Royal Opera House Covent Garden (Le Nozze di Figaro), Los Angeles Opera (Goldenthal: Grendel), San Francisco Opera (Wallace: Bonesetter’s Daughter), Royal Danish Opera (Madama Butterfly), Houston Grand Opera (The Makropulos Case, The Magic Flute), Welsh National Opera (Iphigenie en Tauride), Deutsche Oper Berlin (The Love for Three Oranges), Stuttgart Opera (Macbeth), Israeli Opera (The Pearl Fishers), Grand Théâtre de Genève (Britten, A Midsummer’s Night Dream) as well as to festivals in Hong Kong (Salome), Santa Fe (Katja Kabanova), Edinburgh (Genoveva), Salzburg (Feldman: Neither) and New York (Lincoln Center Festival with Zimmermann’s Die Soldaten, Mark-Antony Turnage’s Anna Nicole at NYC Opera). Recent opera appearances include the outstanding Berlin premiere of Aribert Reimann’s Medea at the Komische Oper Berlin, Francesco Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur at the Frankfurt Opera, the Flying Dutchman at Malmö Opera and Salome at the Spoleto Festival USA.

Education and promoting young musicians have always been of great importance to Steven Sloane. He has regularly conducted youth orchestras such as Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, Bundesjugendorchester and Young Israel Philharmonic, and since 2013 has served as professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin, where he has founded the International Conducting Academy Berlin.

2019/20 season

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Reviews

Under the direction of Steven Sloane, the Latvian State Choir sang and Bochum Symphony Orchestra played with solemn serenity appropriate to the occasion, with a nearly ominous air, as though each individual groaned under the weight of such musical responsibility. Musically, it was less meditative than tremulous, piercing, reproachful.
Peter Jungblut, BR Klassik, 6 September 2019 (Ruhrtriennale, Ligeti Requiem)

The Latvian State Choir and Bochum Symphony Orchestra under Steven Sloane are startingly delicate in their approach to this music, which, in the surehandedness and musicality of their interpretation, also gets at something unyielding that touches the audience with an almost foreboding quality. A truly substantial evening.
Andreas Falentin, Die Deutsche Bühne, 6 September 2019 (Ruhrtriennale, Ligeti Requiem)

The opera and museum orchestra inevitably played an authoritative role once again in the inspiring experience of the (second) revival of this opera. Steven Sloane stood at the podium, with a good view on his former job as first conductor (nearly thirty years ago). With great oversight and passion, he led his orchestra through the demands of the dense task, making for delicate strings and dense, powerful brass.
Frankfurter Neue Presse, Matthias Gerhart, 29/5/2018 (Adriana Lecouvreur, Oper Frankfurt)

Mahler's eighty-minute final symphony is a work of haunting beauty. In Sloane´s sensitive and expressive interpretation as conductor, the marvel of timbres, polyphony, and symphonic structures was developed to perfection. And the canon of moods – drama and conflict, grief and tenderness – was kept in remarkable balance. […]Stunning! Given this bold performance, one nearly forgot that the exquisite graciousness with which the evening began.
Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, Jürgen Boebers-Süßmann, 12/3/2018

The house orchestra, under guest conductor Steven Sloane, executes the score’s broad palette of textures with impressive attention to nuance and balance, from gongs that crash in the outer aisles, to detuned, mocking flutes, to squealing brass. It may not always be a pleasant journey, but Reimann’s Medea offers the listener no escape.
Financial Times, Rebecca Schmid, 23/5/2017

Superb too, was the way conductor Steven Sloane co-ordinated with the soloists, making the seemingly incompatible compatible for two full hours, right from the very first notes.
Tagesspiegel, Frederik Hanssen, 23/5/2017

The real shock of Medea comes from Reimann’s orchestra. As in his Shakespeare opera Lear (…), all of the sound’s violence comes from the orchestral pit, which was released into the room with an incredible presence by Steven Sloane and the house orchestra – fierce, seething, wildly faltering string and brass figures, and raw and cracked percussion agglomerations. This was listening as a challenge and a dangerous exercise.
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Wolfgang Schreiber, 25/5/2017

Prégardien, Sloane and the Bochum Symphony are wonderfully matched. They bring a rare, dreamlike quality and sense of other-worldliness to Mahler‘s visions of love and war, life and death. Ghostly woodwind solos and distant trumpet calls make chamber music with Prégardien’s steady but supple lines of long breathed melody. Sloane’s conducting offers bracing support in its alertness to the underlying dance rhythms of so many of these setting.
BBC Music Magazine, Hilary Finch, 3/2014 “recording of the month”

The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under the baton of Steven Sloane let the elements of dreams and the spicy fundamentals, of the illustrious and the ridiculous of everyday life become a colourful arc of sound – and made it clear at every moment that Britten’s sound worlds live on melodic and lyrical inspiration.
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Rolf Urs Ringger, 25/11/2015

Steven Sloane moves through Britten’s music like a fish in the waters of a fresh, bubbly and crystal clear source. Immaculate entries from each musician, a rounded and delicate sound, orchestral flow, airy and brisk rhythms.
LE TEMPS, Sylvie Bonier, 21/11/2015

The conductor, Steven Sloane, drew pulsing, feisty and textured playing from the orchestra.
New York Times, Anthony Tommasini, 18/9/2013

Steven Sloane, who already led the baroque orchestra to delicate transparence, unleashed not only the abundance of colours but also the entire force of Bartók’s music.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Gerhard Schroth, 31/5/2013

Steven Sloane excelled at bringing out the mockery Prokofiev’s music makes of the theatre of illusion, with sharp contrasts and agility. This made listening to the singers an even greater pleasure.
Opernwelt, Albrecht Thiemann, February 2013

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repertoire

Programme ideas

R. WAGNER	Prelude to Parsifal
N. SHERIFF	'Akedah Die Opferung Isaaks' in memory of Itzhak Rabin
S. ODEH-TAMIMI	Halat Hissar - Belagerungszustand
R. STRAUSS	Death and Transfiguration Op.24

E. SCHULHOFF	Symphony No.2
A. ZEMLINSKY	Symphonic Songs Op.20
E. W. KORNGOLD	Symphonic Serenade Op.39
G. LIGETI	Lux aeterna
O. MESSIAEN	Lascension quatre meditations
R. WAGNER	Parsifal (3rd Act)

J. HAYDN	Symphony No.22 in E flat major 'The Philosopher'
F. ZAPPA	The Adventures of Greggery Peccary
H. BERLIOZ	Symphonie fantastique

R. STRAUSS	Metamorphosen
K. PENDERECKI	Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
L. v. BEETHOVEN	Symphony No.3 in E flat major Op.55 'Eroica'

L. BERNSTEIN	Symphony No.2 'The Age of Anxiety' for piano and orchestra
J. CORIGLIANO	Red Violin Concerto
J. ADAMS	Harmonielehre

J. HAYDN	Symphony No.59
G. LIGETI	San Francisco Polyphony
B. BARTÓK	Duke Bluebeard's Castle

T. TAKEMITSU	I hear the water dreaming
R. SCHUMANN	Symphony No.3 'Rhenish'
C. DEBUSSY	La Mer
A. BERG	Wozzeck, 3rd Act, Scene 4 and 5

F. SCHREKER	Prelude to a drama
A. WEBERN	Five pieces for orchestra Op.10
R. STRAUSS	Suite from 'Der Rosenkavalier'
I. STRAVINSKY	Rite of Spring

Projects at Ruhrtriennale

B. A. ZIMMERMANN	Die Soldaten, stage direction David Pountney

H. W. HENZE	Giesela! (world premiere)

H. GOEBBELS	Surrogate Cities

Cycle "Mahler meets Ives" - Excerpts

C. IVES	Three Places in New England
G. MAHLER	Symphony No.5 in C sharp minor

C. IVES	Fireman's Parade on Main Street
C. IVES	Symphony No.3 'The Camp Meeting'
G. MAHLER	Symphony No.1 in D major 'Titan'

G. MAHLER	Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (arr. Schoenberg 1920)
C. IVES	Fünf Lieder (arr. John Adams)
G. MAHLER	Symphony No.4

G. MAHLER	Adagio from Symphony No.10
G. MAHLER	Kindertotenlieder
C. IVES	Symphony No.4
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Operatic Repertoire

J. ADAMS	Nixon in China

S. BARBER	Anthony and Cleopatra

B. BARTÓK	Bluebeards Castle*

A. BERG	Wozzeck

L. v. BEETHOVEN	Fidelio

G. BIZET	Carmen
	The Pearl Fishers

B. BRITTEN	Midsummer Nights Dream
	The Rape of Lucretia
	Albert Herring

F. CILEA	Adriana Lecouvreur

R. DE RAAF	Waiting for Miss Monroe

W. GLUCK	Iphigénie en Tauride*

E. GOLDENTHAL	Grendel

E. HUMPERDINCK	Hansel and Gretel

L. JANÁ?EK	Katja Kabanova*
	Jenufa*
	Ossud
	The Cunning Little Vixen*
	The Makropoulos Case

D. LANG	Prisoner of State

R. LEONCAVALLO	Pagliacci

P. MASCAGNI	Cavalleria rusticana*

C. MONTEVERDI	LOrfeo

W. A. MOZART	Cosi fan tutte*
	La finta gardiniera
	La clemenza di Tito
	The Magic Flute
	Le nozze di Figaro*

M. MUSSORGSKY	Boris Godunov

J. OFFENBACH	The Tales of Hoffmann

G. B. PERGOLESI	La serva padrona

S. PROKOFIEV	The Love for Three Oranges*

G. PUCCINI	Il Trittico*
	Tosca*
	Turandot
	La Bohème
	Madama Butterfly*

H. PURCELL	Dido and Aeneas*

A. REIMANN	Medea

G. ROSSINI	Il barbiere di Siviglia

D. SHOSTAKOVICH	Moscow Cheryomushki

R. STRAUSS	Salome*
	Der Rosenkavalier

R. SCHUMANN	Genoveva

P. TCHAIKOVSKY	Eugen Onegin

M. A. TURNAGE	Anna Nicole

G. VERDI	La Traviata*
	Un ballo in maschera
	Falstaff*
	Rigoletto*
	Macbeth
	Simone Boccanegra

R. WAGNER	Tristan und Isolde*
	Lohengrin*
	The Flying Dutchman
	Parsifal*

S. WALLACE	The Bonesetters Daughter

K. WEILL	Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
	The Threepenny Opera
	The Eternal Road
	The Seven Deadly Sins

B. A. ZIMMERMANN	Die Soldaten

	*possible without pre-rehearsal
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Discography

Waiting for Miss Monroe - Robin de Raaff

Netherlands Chamber Orchestra (live recording by Dutch National Opera)
Challenge Classics CC 72685, 2015

Violin concertos - Ludwig van Beethoven, Alban Berg

Antje Weithaas (violin), Stavanger Symphony Orchestra
Avi LC 15080, 2013

Orchestral Songs - Gustav Mahler, Wolfgang Rihm

Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Bochum Symphony Orchestra
CPO 777 675-2, 2013BBC Recording of the Month

Komm zur Ruhr - Herbert Grönemeyer

Herbert Grönemeyer, Bochum Symphony Orchestra
EMI 5099962773928, 2010

Die Soldaten - B. A. Zimmermann

Claudia Barainsky (soprano) et al., Bochum Symphony Orchestra
Director: David Pountney
DORO/RuhrTriennale DVD-9, 2006

The Brothers: a one act opera - George Antheil

Rebecca Nelsen, Ray M. Wade Jr., William Dazeley, E. Mark Murphy, Piotr Prochera
Bochum Symphony Orchestra
CPO 777545-2, 2011

Frank Martin - Suite from “Der Sturm”, Six monologues from “Jedermann”, Symphonie concertante

Thomas Oliemans (baritone), Stavanger Symphony Orchestra
MD&G Records B003A6OHF0, 2010

Hans Werner Henze - Requiem, Neun geistliche Konzerte

Dimitri Vassilakis (piano), Reinhold Friedrich (trumpet), Bochum Symphony Orchestra
Cybele Records, ISBN 978-3-937794-10-5, 2010

Ernest Bloch - Baal-Shem, 2 Psalms, 3 Poèmes juifs, Suite hébraique

Christiane Oelze (soprano), Antje Weithaas (violin), Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Capriccio 1040775, 2009

"French cello concertos" - Frank Martin, Darius Milhaud, Camille Saint-Saens

Niklas Eppinger (cello), Bochum Symphony Orchestra
aulos AUL 66 148, 2007

Dmitri Shostakovich - Suite for Variety Orchestra, “Moscow Cheryomushki-Suite”, Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1, “Tahiti Trot”

Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Capriccio, CD 71096, 2006

Ernest Bloch - 20th Century Portraits “Hiver-Printemps“, “Proclamation“,“Poèmes d’automne“, Suite for Viola and Orchestra

Sophie Koch (mezzo), Reinhold Friedrich (trumpet), Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Capriccio, CD 67076, 2004

Joseph Marx - Complete Orchestral Music Vol. 4 “The Piano Concertos”

David Lively (piano), Bochum Symphony Orchestra
ASV, CD DCA 1174, 2004

Joseph Marx - Complete Orchestral Music Vol. 3 "Alt-Wiener Serenaden“, "Partita in modo antico", "Sinfonia in modo classico"

Bochum Symphony Orchestra
ASV, CD DCA 1158, 2003

Joseph Marx - Complete Orchestral Music Vol. 2 “Orchestral Songs”

Angela Maria Blasi (soprano), Stella Doufexis (mezzo), Bochum Symphony Orchestra
ASV, CD DCA 1164, 2003Nominated for the Grammy

Joseph Marx - Complete Orchestral Music Vol. 1 “Nature Trilogy”

Bochum Symphony Orchestra
ASV, CD DCA 1137, 2003

Piano Concertos - Arthur Honegger, Aaron Copland

Michael Rische (piano), WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne
Arte Nova Classics, B00005V4OS, 2002

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Jerusalem Calling – Steven Sloane on new journey

Steven Sloane will take up the position of Music Director of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra at the beginning of the 2020/21 season. From October 2019 he will be Music Director Designate, leading the orchestra in three symphony concerts and begin with artistic planning. Karsten Witt took this appointment as an opportunity to take a look into the future – as well as the past....

Noam Sheriff, 1935 – 2018

The Israeli composer and conductor Noam Sheriff shaped the music life of Israel more than almost any other person. He died on 25^th August at the age of 83. Shortly before the burial in Tel Aviv, the conductor Steven Sloane spoke to Karsten Witt about his memories of the great artist and mentor to following generations of Israeli conductors for many decades....

A new home for Bochum

This October, the Bochumer Symphoniker and their long-standing Music Director Steven Sloane celebrated a milestone with the opening of their long-awaited new home, the Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr....

Feedback for conductors: Steven Sloane and the International Conducting Academy Berlin

After the successful first round in the academic year 2014/15, young conductors can again apply for an internationally unique programme at Berlin’s University of the Arts (UdK): The International Conducting Academy Berlin (ICAB), conceived and directed by Steven Sloane, offers, alongside a two-year master's degree programme, a one-year postgraduate course, specifically tailored to the individual needs of the participants. It offers conductors with first work experience, who are already beyond the master’s level, a very focused way to improve upon their capabilities, benefitting from a variety of collaborations with orchestras and opera houses in Berlin and other German cities....