GREGOR BÜHL
Conductor
''Gregor Bühl not only led the formidably playing Staatsorchester safely through the depths of this score, but also animated the orchestra to make music that will not soon be forgotten: emphatic, gripping, urgent."
- Frank Armbruster, Stuttgarter Zeitung
Strauss, Bartok, Staatsorchester Stuttgart
''The orchestra und Gregor Bühl played with burning intensity. In the second act Bühl created wonderful soft orchestral colours, especially in the love duett between Tristan and Isolde.''
- Lars Hedblad, Svenska Dagbladet
Tristan, Stockholm
Fidelio act 1
Götterdämmerung Trauermarsch
Musical Discoveries - Walter Braunfels
Gregor Bühl is a distinguished conductor who gained international recognition with his “Ring des Nibelungen” cycle at the Royal Opera House in Stockholm. His interpretation was met with enthusiastic praise from both audiences and critics alike and he went on to conduct many notable performances in there: “Tristan und Isolde”, “Samson et Dalila”, “Werther”, “Figaro” and celebrated new productions of Bartók’s “Bluebeard’s Castle” as well as Leonard Bernstein’s “Trouble in Tahiti”.
In recent seasons, Bühl has been a regular guest at prestigious venues including the Royal Opera in Copenhagen, Hamburg State Opera, and Stuttgart State Opera with performances of “Fidelio”, “Madama Butterfly”, “Il Trovatore”, “La Cenerentola”, “Rigoletto”, “Pique Dame”, “L’elisir d’amore”, “Les Contes d’Hoffmann”, and “Tosca”. His long-standing collaboration with the Staatstheater Hannover has seen him conduct several acclaimed new productions, including the German premiere of Manfred Trojahn’s “Orest” and a highly praised staging of Verdi’s “La Traviata”. Additionally, he conducted the world premiere of Stewart Copeland’s opera ‘Electric Saint’ at the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar in 2021, which was highly celebrated.
Bühl’s impressive discography has included recordings of “Ring des Nibelungen” (Royal Opera House in Stockholm), Walter Braunfels’ orchestral works with the Vienna RSO and Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie (Capriccio label), as well as, American works for clarinet with Sharon Kam and the London Symphony Orchestra. Two of the latter recordings have received the ‘Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik’.
His North American debut took place at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto with “Fidelio”, and his South American debut followed at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires with Lehár’s “The Merry Widow”. Bühl has also guest-conducted at the Opéra National de Montpellier, Semperoper Dresden - where he led the rarely performed Strauss adaptation of Mozart’s “Idomeneo” - Deutsche Oper Berlin, and Leipzig Opera, among others.
Bühl’s extensive concert engagements have taken him across Germany, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, and Israel. He has worked with renowned radio symphony orchestras in Vienna, Berlin, Hamburg, Saarbrücken, Hilversum, and Hanover, as well as the Finnish and Danish radio orchestras. His guest conducting has also brought him to the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Staatskapelle Weimar, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra, and Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz.
Gregor Bühl began his conducting career as an assistant to Gerd Albrecht at the Hamburg State Opera before becoming Principal Conductor at the Staatstheater Hannover in 1995. During his six-year tenure, he conducted a wide-ranging repertoire including both classic German and Italian operas and significant contemporary works.
Bühl started his conducting studies at the Düsseldorf Musikhochschule under Wolfgang Trommer. He further honed his skills through master classes with Ferdinand Leitner, Gary Bertini, and Gerd Albrecht. In 1995, he received the second prize at the Nikolai Malko Conducting Competition in Copenhagen and, in 1993, the Culture Prize of the Berenberg Bank in Hamburg. He has been awarded scholarships from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and DAAD. From 2016-2022, Bühl was a professor at the Oslo Opera Academy.
"Bühl lifts Bruckner to new heights."
Karl Gunnar Ahlén, SvD
DISCOGRAPHY
“Under the baton of Gregor Bühl, the romantic sigh melodies blossomed more beautifully
and magnificently than ever before.”
Wolfram Goertz, WAZ
REPERTOIRE - OPERA
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Don Giovanni Idomeneo (Strauss Version) Le nozze di Figaro Die Zauberflöte
Giacomo Puccini La Bohème Gianni Schicchi Madama Butterfly Suor Angelica Il tabarro Tosca
Gioacchino Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia Il viaggio a Reims Elisabetta, regina d’Inghilterra Cenerentola
Richard Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos Elektra Der Rosenkavalier
Manfred Trojahn Enrico Was ihr wollt Orest
Peter Tchaikovsky Eugen Onegin Pique Dame
Giuseppe Verdi Simone Boccanegra Rigoletto La Traviata Il Trovatore Un ballo in maschera La Forza del Destino Don Carlo
Richard Wagner Der fliegende Holländer Tannhäuser Lohengrin Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Das Rheingold Die Walküre Siegfried Götterdämmerung Parsifal Tristan und Isolde
Giuseppe Verdi Simone Boccanegra Rigoletto La Traviata Il Trovatore Un ballo in maschera La Forza del Destino Don Carlo
Béla Bartók
Blaubart
Gaetano Donizetti
L’elisir d’amore
Albert Lortzing
Der Wildschütz
Camille Saint-Saëns
Samson et Dalila
Georges Bizet
Carmen
Friedrich Freiherr von Flotow
Martha
Jules Massenet
Werther
Alfred Schnittke
Historia von D. Johann Fausten
Ludvig van Beethoven
Fidelio
Engelbert Humperdinck
Hänsel und Gretel
Otto Nicolai
Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor
Bedřich Smetana
verkaufte Braut
Leonard Bernstein
On the Town
Trouble in Tahiti
Franz Lehár
Die lustige Witwe
Jaques Offenbach
Les contes d‘Hoffmann
Carl Maria von Weber
Der Freischütz
Udo Zimmermann
Die weiße Rose