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.
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.
| Season 2017 |
Recent and Upcoming Guest Engagements in 2017:
|Italien debut performance „The Wizard of Oz“|
Operaestate Festival Veneto- Bassano del Grappa
8
October - 3.30 pm
|Concerts Niedersächsisches
Jugendorchester|
Isernhagenhof| 12 October - 7.30 pm
Bersenbrück| 13 October - 7.30 pm
Bad Pyrmont| 14 October - 7.30 pm
|Concerts Warsaw Philharmonic|
26 October - 7.00 pm
27 October - 7.30 pm
28 October - 6.00 pm
|Masterclass for
conducting|
University of
Houston| UNDEFINED mid November
|Concerts with Orquesta
Sinfonica de Mineria|
Mexico
City | 29. November - 14. December
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Repertoire |
OPERA REPERTOIRE | View Concert Repertoire|
- 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
CONCERT REPERTOIRE| View Opera Repertoire |
- 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
| Oscar Byström Symphonie in d-minor and other Works Gävle Symphony Orchestra Sterling 1998 |
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| Herbert Chappell,
Paddington Bear's First Concert Francis Poulenc, Babar The Elephant Hamburg Symphonic Orchestra; Hans-Jürgen Schatz Deutsche Grammophon 1998 |
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| Gävle Symphony Orchestra Live in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam Rosa Arnold, Violin - Enrica Ciccarelli, Piano Verdi Records 1999 |
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| Olaf Ott, Trombone Concertos Philharmoic Ensemble Orchestra Works by L.Grondahl, E.Reiche, L.E.Larsson, F.David camerata 2004 |
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