Steven Sloane

Steven Sloane, conductor

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. A student of Eugene Ormandy, Franco Ferrara and Gary Bertini, he has served as Music Director of the Spoleto Festival USA and of Opera North in Leeds. He also served as music director of the American Composers Orchestra and principal conductor of the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra (2007-2013). Steven Sloane is a frequent guest with prestigious orchestras, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, 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, São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, China Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

The Bochum Symphony will move into its own new music centre in October 2016. The 2014/15 season marked Steven Sloane’s 20^th anniversary as General Music Director of the orchestra which has been transformed into one of Germany’s leading orchestras under his direction. As Artistic Director for the Performing Arts of the European Capital of Culture RUHR 2010, his projects brought international recognition to arts in the Ruhr region. His commitment to the Bochum Symphony and to the region has repeatedly been acknowledged; he was made an honorary citizen of the Ruhr, for example. In 2006, he directed the critically acclaimed milestone production of Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s opera Die Soldaten for the Ruhrtriennale and at the Lincoln Center Festival in 2008.

Steven Sloane is a sought-after opera conductor, whose 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), Dutch National Opera (De Raaff: Waiting for Miss Monroe), Houston Grand Opera (The Makropulos Case, The Magic Flute), Welsh National Opera (Iphigenie en in Tauride), New York City Opera (Turnage: Anna Nicole), Seattle Opera (Carmen), Stuttgart Opera (Macbeth), as well as to festivals in Hong Kong (Salome), Santa Fe (Katja Kabanova), Edinburgh (Genoveva) and Salzburg (Feldman: Neither).

Recent opera highlights include a new production of The Love for Three Oranges at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Madama Butterfly at the Copenhagen Opera, Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Così fan tutte at the Copenhagen Opera Festival.as well as the pairing of Duke Bluebeard's Castle and Dido and Aeneas at the Frankfurt and L.A. Opera. In the 2016/17 season, Steven Sloane will conduct a new production of Aribert Reimann’s Medea at Komische Oper Berlin.

Steven Sloane’s discography contains a number of prizewinning records: his recording of orchestral songs by Joseph Marx has been nominated for the Grammy, and his latest CD with Lieder by Mahler and Rihm with Christoph Prégardien and the Bochum Symphony has been chosen as “CD of the Month” by the BBC Music Magazine.

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 fostered the training of young conductors. He initiates master classes and academies, and since 2013 serves as professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin, where he has founded the International Conducting Academy Berlin.

2016/17 season

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