Carlos Spierer

Born in Stockholm in 1963, Carlos Spierer was raised in Berlin. Subsequent to his Violin Studies with Fredell Lack at the University of Houston he studied conducting from 1984 to 1990 with Klauspeter Seibel at the Conservatory for Music in Hamburg. He attended several Master Classes including the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival with Leonard Bernstein in 1987, where he came first in the Conducting Competition.

His first engagement as conductor and Assistant of the Music Director took him to the Kiel Opera for five years until 1995. Further positions as Artistic and Music Director included the Gävle Symphony Orchestra in Sweden from 1997 to 2000, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería in Mexico City from 2003 to 2005 as well as the Young Symphony Orchestra of Hessen in 2007. From 2003 to 2011 Carlos Spierer has been Music Director of the Giessen Theatre.
In 1999 Spierer's recording of "Paddington's First Concert" and Poulenc's "Babar the Elephant" together with the Hamburg Symphony was awarded the Echo Prize.

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Another recording with works of the Swedish Composer Oscar Byström together with the Gävle Symphony Orchestra was the "CD of the Year 1998" at the BBC Music Magazine.

Carlos Spierer held Guest Engagements with many renowned Orchestras and Opera Houses, including San Francisco Opera, Komische Oper Berlin, Frankfurt Opera, Estonian National Opera Tallinn, Karlsruhe Opera, German Chamber Philharmony Bremen, Brussels Radio Orchestra, Radio Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Buenos Aires, the Costa Rica National Symphony Orchestra, the Saaremaa Festival in Estonia, Symphony Orchestra Odense, Orquesta Sinfonica de Paraíba, Philharmonic Ensemble and NHK Tokyo, NRK Radio Orchestra Oslo, Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Stockholm as well as the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Beethoven: Fidelio
Berg: Lulu (3 Acts), Wozzeck
Bizet: Carmen
Donizetti: Don Pasquale, L'elisir d'amore, La fille du Régiment
De Falla: Master Pedro's Puppet Play
Floros: Gala Gala
Giordano: Andrea Chenier
Gomez: Lo Schiavo
Haydn: L’anima del Filosofo, Orlando Paladino
Heuberger: Der Opernball
Hindemith: Sancta Susanna
Humperdinck: Hänsel and Gretel
Kálman: Die Czardasfürstin
Lehár: The Merry Widow, Das Land des Lächelns
Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci
Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana
Massenet: Werther
Menotti: Goya
Mercadante: Il Giuramento
Mozart: Cosí fan tutte, Don Giovanni, Le nozze de Figaro, The Magic Flute,; Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann, Orpheus in der Unterwelt
Puccini: Manon Lescaut, La Bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Suor Angelica, Turandot
Schwemmer: Robin Hood
Smetana: The Bartered Bride
Smyth: The Wreckers
J. Strauss: Die Fledermaus
R. Strauss: Salome, Der Rosenkavalier
Tschaikovsky: The Maiden of Orléans
Valtinoni: Pinocchio, The Snow Queen
Verdi: Nabucco, Rigoletto, Ilt Trovatore, La Traviata, Don Carlos, Otello, Falstaff
Wagner: Tannhäuser, Tristan and Isolde,
The Ring in one night (special Version for the Giessen Opera)
Webber: Evita
Weber: Der Freischütz
Zador: X-Mal Rembrandt
Zemlinsky: Der Geburtstag der Infantin

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Alfven: Midsommervaka, Skogen sover
Arnold: Symphonietta Nr.1+2
Bach: Brandenburg Concerts and Suites, Double concerto for 2 Violins, Violin concerntos a-minor and E
Barber: Adagio for strings
Bartok: Concert for Orchestra, Dance Suite, Piano concerto Nr.3, Violin concerto Nr.2
Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9, Piano concertos 1-5, Rondo for Piano and Orchestra,Violin concerto, Romances for Violin, Ouvertures: Coriolan, Prometheus, Egmont, Leonores and Fidelio
Berg: Seven Early Songs
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Les Nuits d’été, Carnaval Romain
Bernstein: Symphonic dances from West Side Story
Bizet: Carmen Suite 1+2, Carmen Fantasy for Violin, Symphony in C-major, Jeux d’enfants
Blacher: Konzertante Musik für Orchester
Boeck: Dahomeyse Rapsodie
Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Symphonies 1-4, Tragic and Akademic Ouvertures, Haydn Variations, Piano concerto 1+2, Violin concerto, Double Concerto for Violin and Cello, Hungarian dances 1-6
Bruch: Violin concerto g-minor, Schottische Fantasie
Bruckner: 4./5./6./7./8./9. Symphony
Byström: Symphony in d-minor, Ouverture in D major, Ouverture for Herman Vimpel, Waltz
Chabrier: España, Fête Polonaise, Le Roi malgré lui
Chavez: Symphony Nr 4
Chapell: Paddington Bear's First Concert
Chausson: Poem for Violin and Orchestra
Cherubini: Ouverture for Medea
Chopin: Piano concerto 1+2
Copland: El Salon Mexico
Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, Danses sacreé et profane
de Falla: Night in the Spanish Gardens
Dohnányi: Variations about a Children's song for Piano and Orchestra
Dvorak: Symphonies 7, 8+9, Cello concerto
Dukas: Der Zauberlehrling
Elgar: Cello concerto, Enigma Variations, Serenade for Strings, Gerontius' Dream
Donizetti: Ouvertures for Don Pasquale and La Fille du Régiment
Gershwin: Piano concerto, Rhapsody in Blue, An Amerikan in Paris
Glasunow: Concerto for Saxophone
Glinka: Ruslan and Ludmila, Kamarinskaja, Valse fantaisie
Gluck: Ouverture for Iphigenie in Aulis
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite, Norwegian dances, From Holberg's Time, Piano concerto
Händel: Water Music and Firework Music
Hartmann: Concerto Funebre
Haydn: Symphonies 6,7,8,22,26,44,45,49,60,82,92,94,100-104,Die Schöpfung, Trumpet concerto, Piano concerto C-major, Cello concertos
Humperdinck: Ouverture for Hänsel and Gretel
Hindemith: Mathis der Maler, Sinfonische Metamorphosen, Lustige Symphonietta, Ragtime
Holst: The Planets
Hummel: Trumpet concerto
Ibert: Hommage á Mozart
Ives: 5 Variations about America, Symphony Nr 1
Jolivet: Concertino for Trumpet, strings and Piano
Khachaturian: Spartacus suite, Masquerade suite
Kodály: Dances from Galanta
Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole, Cello Concerto
Linkola: Euphonium Concerto
Liszt: Mephisto Walzer, Ungarische Rhapsodien
Mahler: Symphonies 1, 3, 4 and 5, Das Lied von der Erde, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Martin: Concert for sieben Bläser, Pauken, Schlagzeug and Stringorchester
Martinu: Symphonytta giocosa
Mendelssohn: Symphonies 1, 3 and 4, Ouvertures for Märchen von der schönen Melusine,; Die Hebriden, Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt, A Midsummer Night's Dream,; Violin concerto, Concerto for Clarinet and Bassett Horn
Monrad-Johansen: Pan
Mozart: Symphonies 25, 35-41, Violin concerto 3-5, Sinfonia Concertante, Concert for 2 Pianos, Piano concerto KV 271, 414, 466, 467 and 595, Flute concerto KV 313, Bassoon Concerto, Concerto for Clarinet, Horn concerto Nr. 3, Concert for Flute and Harp, Requiem
Mussorgsky: Pictures of an Exhibition, Night on a bare Mountain
Nielsen: Symphony Nr.2, Frühling auf Fynen, Maskerade Ouverture, Flute concerto
Orff: Carmina Burana
Paganini: Violin concerto Nr.1+ Nr.2
Pasculli: Ricordi a La Traviata, Fantasia su Un ballo in Maschera
Petersen-Berger: Violin Romance
Poulenc: Piano concerto, Concerto for 2 Pianos, Babar The Elephant
Prokoffjew: Symphonies Nr.1 and 5, Violin concerto Nr.2, Piano concerto No.2, Scythian Suite,
Alexander Nevsky, Peter and the Wolf, Das hässliche Entlein
Puccini: Capriccio sinfonico, Preludio sinfonico
Rachmaninoff: Piano concertos 1-3
Rangström: Kung Erik's Visor
Rautavaara: A Requiem in our Time
Ravel: Une barque sur l’océan, Pavane pour une Infante défunte,; Le tombeau de Couperin, Boléro, Tzigane, La Valse
Respighi: Fontane di Roma
Rihm: Cello concerto
Rimski-Korsakoff: Shéherazade
Roman: Drottningholmsmusiken
Rossini: Ouvertures for La scala di Seta, Il Signor Bruschino, Un Turco in Italia, L'Italiana in Algieri, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Guillaume Tell
Saint-Saëns: 3rd Symphony, Der Karneval der Tiere, Danse Macabre, Danse Bacchanale,
Introduction et Rondo capriccioso, Cello concerto 1 + 2
Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen
Satie: Musique d’ameublement
Schönberg: Verklärte Nacht, 2nd Chamber Symphony, A Survivor from Warsaw
Schostakowitsch: Symphony Nr.5+9, Cello concertos Nr.1+2, Jazzsuite No.2, Tea for Two
Schubert: Symphonies Nr. 3, 4, 5, 6, 8+9;; Ouvertures in Italian Style, Ouverture for Alfonso and Estrella,
Rosamande and Manfred, German dances
Schulhoff: Die Mondsüchtige, die Wolkenpumpe
Schumann: Symphonies 1-4, Piano concerto
Sibelius: Symphony Nr.5, Valse triste, Violin Concerto
Smetana: Ouverture for The Bartered Bride, The Moldau, Richard III
Stenhammar: Florez and Blanzeflor, Violin Romances
Strauß, Joh.: An der schönen blauen Donau, Kaiser-Walzer, Frühlingsstimmen,
Rosen aus dem Süden, Wein, Weib and Gesang, Wiener Blut, Pizzicatopolka,
Wo die Zitronen blühn, Unter Donner and Blitz, Tritsch-Tratsch,
Ouverture for Fledermaus
Strauß, Joh. sr: Radetzkymarsch
Strauß, Josef: Sphärenklänge
Strauss, R: Rosenkavaliersuite, 4 Zwischenmusiken aus Intermezzo,; Dance of the Seven Veils, Don Juan, Don Quixote, Concerto for Horn, Concerto for Hautbois
Stravinsky: Th Fire Bird, Pétrouchka, Le sacre du Printemps, Jeux de Cartes, Circus Polka
Tschaikowsky: Symphonies 4-6, Violin concerto, Rokoko Vvariations, Piano concerto Nr. 1; 1812 Ouverture, Romeo and Julia, The Nutcracker, Mozartiana
Turina: Dansas Fantasticas
Vaughan Williams: The Lark ascending, A London Symphony
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Wagner: Ouvertures for The Flying Dutchman, The Master Singers of Nuremberg, Tannhäuser, Tristan and Isolde; Siegfried Idyll, Wesendonck Lieder, The Ring Without Words (Mazel)
Weber: Ouverture of Der Freischütz, Oberon, Bassoon concerto
Weill: Symphony Nr.1, Suite from Mahagonny, Concerto for Violin and Wing Orchestra
Wirén: Serenade for String Orchestra

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Oscar Byström Symphonie in d-minor and other Works Gävle Symphony Orchestra Sterling 1998	\|buy CD\|
Herbert Chappell, Paddington Bear's First Concert Francis Poulenc, Babar The Elephant Hamburg Symphonic Orchestra; Hans-Jürgen Schatz Deutsche Grammophon 1998	\|buy CD\|
Gävle Symphony Orchestra Live in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam Rosa Arnold, Violin - Enrica Ciccarelli, Piano Verdi Records 1999
Olaf Ott, Trombone Concertos Philharmoic Ensemble Orchestra Works by L.Grondahl, E.Reiche, L.E.Larsson, F.David camerata 2004

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