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Canadian maestro Nathan Brock, who moved to Hamburg, Germany, in June 2015 to join the conducting staff of the Hamburg State Opera, has extended his two-year contract to a third season.
In June 2015 Brock joined the Hamburg State Opera. As Kapellmeister, he has performed revivals of L’Elisir d’Amore, Il Barbieri di Siviglia, Die Zauberflöte, Hänsel und Gretel, La Belle Hélène and Le Nozze di Figaro as well as the new production of Erzittre and Britten’s Let’s Make an Opera. He has also performed with the Hamburg Ballet John Neumeier on new productions of the choreographer’s ballets Eleonora Duse, Turangalila and Anna Karenina, and revivals of Gisele and The Concert. In addition, he has collaborated on productions of the operas Lohengrin, Tristan und Isolde, Les Troyens, Elektra, Pelléas et Mélisande, Stilles Meer (by Toshio Hosokawa), Die Frau ohne Schatten, Lulu and Salome, among other works, with General Music Director Kent Nagano.
“There have been so many highlights during these years,” said Maestro Brock. “Even my behind-the-scenes work was enormously rewarding – such as preparing for the world premiere of Jörg Widmann’s oratorio Arche for the opening of Hamburg’s stunning new Elbphilharmonie; and for our new production of Berg’s Lulu, which has just been awarded performance of the year by the German magazine Opernwelt.”
After his contract ends in July 2018, he will assist in a new production of Henze’s Die Bassariden at the Salzburg Festival, and conduct a touring production from Hamburg of Mozart’s Erzittre, an adaptation for young adults of Mozart’s Magic Flute by Intendant Georges Delnon, in China at the end of the summer.
Nathan Brock began his career as resident conductor of l’Orchestre symphonique de Montréal in 2009. During his five-season tenure, he was largely responsible for establishing the orchestra in its new hall, La Maison Symphonique, as well as for revitalizing the orchestra’s youth outreach programs – an initiative for which he was awarded Quebec’s Prix Opus. Over his more than 125 conducting performances, he shared the stage with many renowned artists, among them Maxim Vengerov and Stephen Hough.
As a guest conductor, he has performed in his native Canada with the symphony orchestras of Toronto, Québec, Edmonton, Nova Scotia, Victoria and Thunder Bay, and has toured extensively with the National Ballet of Canada. In Europe, he has conducted l’Orchestre National Pays de la Loire, Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino, Komische Oper Berlin and Royal Swedish Opera, and is a regular guest of l’Orchestre National de l’Île de France in Paris.
More information is available at www.nathanbrock.com.
Photo: Nathan Brock.
2017-10-12
Toronto: Toronto-born conductor Nathan Brock's contract extended at the Hamburg State Opera