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Jonathan Stockhammer

Conductor Jonathan Stockhammer has been active mostly in Germany, where he has often led performances of contemporary music. He also conducts traditional repertory, but his varied recording catalog emphasizes contemporary works. Stockhammer was born on December 21, 1969, in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Hollywood. His father was a Los Angeles Philharmonic violinist, and he grew up around the world of film music. Stockhammer took courses in Chinese and political science before turning to music. He earned a degree in composition from the University of California, Los Angeles, and then a conducting degree from the University of Southern California. Stockhammer was a fellow at the Accademia Chigiana in Italy in 1996, earning a Merit Prize there. He also won the Kirill Kondrashin Award as a conductor that year. In 1998, he moved to Germany for good, although he has occasionally returned to his native country; he held a fellowship at the Tanglewood Music Center in 1999, and in 2013, he conducted a production of Thomas Adès' Powder Her Face at the New York City Opera. Stockhammer's teachers included Ian Krouse, Peter Eötvös, Daniel Lewis, Robert Spano, Jorma Panula, Myung-Whun Chung, and Esa-Pekka Salonen; on his website (in German only), he emphasizes the roles of Salonen and Eötvös, both of whom had an orientation toward contemporary music. After moving to Germany, Stockhammer found himself in demand as a guest conductor. He has appeared with major orchestras, including the Czech Philharmonic, the Oslo Philharmonic, and the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, as well as groups farther afield, such as the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony. He has often conducted productions at the Opéra National de Lyon in France, and he has collaborated with groups oriented toward contemporary music, such as Ensemble Resonanz, musikFabrik, and Ensemble Modern; with the latter group, he made his recording debut in 2004 on the album Greggery Peccary and Other Persuasions: The Ensemble Modern Plays Frank Zappa, released on the RCA Red Seal label. That album earned an ECHO Klassik award in 2004. In 2013, Stockhammer became conductor in residence at the Collegium Novum Zürich in Switzerland. He has led world premieres of works by major composers such as Wolfgang Rihm, Philip Glass, and Brian Ferneyhough. He has also collaborated across genre lines with the jazz duo of Chick Corea and Gary Burton, with the pop group Pet Shop Boys, and with slam poet Saul Williams. Stockhammer has recorded for ECM, Harmonia Mundi, Hänssler Classic, and other labels in addition to RCA, and in 2022, he moved to Deutsche Grammophon, backing violinist Mari Samuelsen on the contemporary recital album Lys.
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