Steven Sloane
Conductor
© Marcus Witte
The American-Israeli conductor Steven Sloane is back in Frankfurt, where he conducted a revival of the Dido and Aeneas / Herzog Blaubarts Burg (Bluebeard's Castle) double bill, that he also led when the production went on tour to Los Angeles, for this new production of Die Zauberflöte. He was General Music Director of the Bochum Symphony Orchestra from 1994 - 2021, during which time they became one of Germany's leading orchestras. He was also Artistic Director of the European Capital of Culture: RUHR.2010. He was awarded Nordrhein-Westfalen's 2022 Landesverdienst Order for this artistic achievements and has held the post of Music Director of the Jersusalem Symphony Orchestra since 2020, with whom he gave a triumphant tour of Germany. He has appeared with many of the worlds leading orchestras, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the San Francisco, Chicago, Sydney and Tokyo Metropolitan symphony orchestras, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. He is also much sought-after for operatic work which, this season, includes the world premiere of Moritz Eggert's Die letzte Verschwörung / The Ultimate Conspiracy at the Volksoper in Vienna and David Lang's Prisoner of State in Rotterdam, Bruges, Bochum and Malmo. Recent highlights have included Henze's Das Floß der Medusa / The Raft of Medusa at the 2018 Ruhrtriennale, Salome at the Spoleto Festival in the USA and Der fliegende Holländer / The Flying Dutchman and Tosca at Malmö Opera. He has also worked at Covent Garden, Los Angeles Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, the Royal Opera in Copenhagen, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Stuttgart Opera, the Grand Théâtre de Geneve and the Hongkong, Santa Fe, Edinburgh and Salzburg festivals. He is passionate about teaching and has conducted many youth orchestras and is a professor at the University of Arts in Berlin.