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Gregor Bühl

Conductor Gregor Bühl is known for his work in opera, having led a major production of Wagner's Ring Cycle at Sweden's Royal Opera House as well as the world premiere of an opera by rock artist Stewart Copeland. He has also conducted orchestral music widely. Bühl was born in Birkesdorf, near Düren in what was then West Germany, in 1964. He attended school in Düren, where he mastered the school's entire collection of percussion instruments, and then at the Burgau-Gymnasium. Bühl attended the Hochschule für Musik Robert Schumann in Düsseldorf, studying conducting with Wolfgang Trommer. He went on for master classes with Ferdinand Leitner, Gary Bertini, and Gerd Albrecht. Bühl served as the latter's assistant at the Hamburg Staatsoper, and in 1995, he became principal conductor of the Staatstheater Hannover, remaining in that post for six years. There, during the 1999-2000 season, he led a new production of Wagner's Ring Cycle. He won second prize at the Nikolai Malko Conducting Competition in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1995. In 2007, Bühl made his recording debut on the Berlin Classics label, leading Poland's Sinfonia Varsovia on the album The Romantic Clarinet and backing his wife, Sharon Kam, the clarinet soloist. Bühl is a well-known opera conductor in Germany and beyond. After the Hannover Ring, he was tabbed to lead a new Ring Cycle production at the Royal Opera House in Stockholm; that cycle concluded in 2007 with Götterdämmerung and was repeated several times in 2008 and also broadcast on Swedish television. Bühl has appeared with various other opera companies, including the Royal Opera in Copenhagen, the Hamburg State Opera, and the Stuttgart State Opera, leading a variety of German, Italian, French, and Russian works. In 2021, he conducted the world premiere of Copeland's Electric Saint at the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar. Bühl has also conducted instrumental music. He issued four volumes of orchestral music by 20th century composer Walter Braunfels on the Capriccio label, leading the Vienna Radio Symphony and the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz. He returned with the latter orchestra on Capriccio in 2024, leading a program of concert music by Miklós Rózsa.
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