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Christof Perick
Since 2006, Maestro Perick has served as Music Director of the Nuernberg Philharmonic and State Opera in his home country of Germany. Perick has also served as Principal Guest Conductor of the Dresden Semper Opera, one of Europe’s most renowned opera houses since 1992 and as Music Director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra from 1992 to 1995. He held the position of Music Director of the Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester and Staatsoper in Hanover, Germany until 1996 where he recently returned to lead Wagner’s complete Ring Cycle. In Karlsruhe, he was Music Director of the Badische Staatskapelle and Staatsoper for ten seasons from 1977 to 1986. He also led the Staatsoper in Saarbrücken, Germany from 1974 to 1977. In Europe, he has guest conducted many leading orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic and returns regularly to conduct the Orchestre National de France in Paris and the Orchestre National de Lyon. He has conducted often and has been a principal guest conductor of the Vienna and Berlin State Operas, as well as the Hamburg Staatsoper. He also conducts frequently at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. In recent seasons, he has led Dresden productions of Strauss’ Die schweigsame Frau, Salome, and Capriccio; Wagner’s Parsifal, Lohengrin, Tannhäuser, Der fliegende Holländer, Die Meistersinger, and Tristan und Isolde; and Beethoven’s Fidelio. In addition to having served as Music Director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Perick has guest conducted many of the USA’s leading orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic; Los Angeles Philharmonic; the orchestras of Boston, San Francisco, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, Detroit, Seattle, Indianapolis, and Milwaukee; and The National Symphony, among others. Summer festivals have included Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival and Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival. In Canada, he has led the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, the Toronto Symphony, and Calgary Philharmonic. With American opera companies, Perick has led many productions at New York’s Metropolitan Opera for ten consecutive seasons including Fidelio, Tannhäuser, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Hänsel und Gretel, and Die Meistersinger. He has also conducted productions at the Lyric Opera of Chicago including Der fliegende Holländer and Parsifal, productions of Der fliegende Holländer at the San Francisco Opera, Così fan tutte and Ariadne auf Naxos at the Los Angeles Music Center Opera, and Fidelio and The Magic Flute at the San Diego Opera. Perick is an advocate and mentor for young musicians and has been very involved with music education and young artist development. He was closely associated with Germany’s National Youth Orchestra for many years and conducted the first United States tour of the Bundesjugendorchester. He has also guest conducted at the Music Academy of the West Festival in California. Perick’s recent guest engagements include appearances with the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood; the Vancouver, Pacific, and Columbus Symphonies; a pair of subscription concerts with the Stuttgart Philharmonic; productions of Parsifal and Der Freischütz at Munich’s Bayerische Staatsoper; and Parsifal at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Perick resides near the Black Forest in Karlsruhe, Germany with his wife Ulrike, a professional actress, and their two dogs. In his time off the podium, he enjoys swimming and literature.
Alan Yamamoto Yamamoto served most recently as Resident Conductor of the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder for nine seasons. He also founded and was Music Director of the Modern Music Festival, which he led for five successful seasons. Devoted to the works of living composers, the Modern Music Festival encompassed art, music, multimedia, music technology, film premières, opera, and world music. Many of today’s most celebrated composers participated in residencies at the festival including William Albright, Evan Chambers, Charles Eakin, Andrew Imbrie, Joan Tower, Ives Living Prize recipient Chen Yi, and Pulitzer Prize-winner John Corigliano. Festival highlights also featured appearances of artists known widely to world music enthusiasts, including alto saxophonist Chico Freeman and Kora (African harp) player Foday Musa Suso. Under Yamamoto’s direction, the Modern Music Festival received support from every major arts funding agency in Colorado and was commended by the state legislature. Prior to his posts in Colorado, Yamamoto was Assistant Conductor of the Boston Philharmonic and Assistant to Gunther Schuller at the Festival at Sandpoint, Idaho. In Boston, he also held conducting positions at the New England Conservatory and the Symphony Orchestra at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His studies in composition with Earl Kim and Donald Sur were funded by a full scholarship from the University of California at Berkeley. Yamamoto’s guest conducting engagements have included the Colorado Symphony, Boulder Philharmonic, Spokane Symphony, and Taylor Ballet Americana. Because of his commitment to music of our time, he has collaborated with numerous contemporary ensembles and organizations, including the Composers Forum in Ann Arbor; the Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players; the Nuclassix, Griffin, and Dinosaur Annex Ensembles; and the Graduate Composers Seminar at Harvard. His upcoming projects include the Schoenberg/Stein transcription of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony for chamber ensemble in San Francisco, an undertaking he has previously performed to enthusiastic audiences in both Boulder and New Orleans. Yamamoto also collaborates with the filmmaker Hobart Bell in a series of experimental art films that employ original libretti and commissioned music. Yamamoto holds degrees from the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and most recently completed his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Colorado at Boulder. In addition to posts at the aforementioned universities, Yamamoto held teaching appointments at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Wellesley College. He completed summer fellowships at the Aspen Music Festival; the Conductors Guild Institute in Morgantown, West Virginia; and the Accademia di Chigiana in Siena, Italy. His conducting teachers include Franco Ferrara, Herbert Blomstedt, Sergiu Celibidache, Michael Senturia, Gunther Schuller, Gustav Meier, and Giora Bernstein.
Albert-George
Schram
Under his leadership, the Pops series has thrived, and the Charlotte Symphony has collaborated with such outstanding musical artists as Art Garfunkel, Johnny Mathis, Tony Bennett, Dianne Reeves, Olivia Newton-John, Linda Eder, José Feliciano, the Four Tops, Kathy Mattea, the United States Naval Academy Men’s Glee Club, Michael Feinstein, The Temptations, and the late Ray Charles. Schram, a native of the Netherlands, was recently named Nashville Symphony's new Principal Conductor for Pops and special programs. His tenure began in the 2006-07 opening season of the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. He is responsible for programming and guest artist selection for the Bank of America Pops series, as well as building and maintaining that series' audience base. In addition, he leads select classical, education, and other special events concerts throughout the season. He also currently serves as Resident Staff Conductor of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra in Ohio. He has worked there in a variety of capacities since 1979 and has become an audience favorite for all series, including Classical subscriptions, Pops, and summer season concerts. His twenty-five years with the Columbus Symphony marks one of the longest conducting tenures with a major American orchestra. Schram was Music Director and Conductor of the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra from 1994 to 2000. During his tenure, the orchestra blossomed into the premier arts organization in western Texas. From 1990 to 1996, Schram served as Resident Conductor of the Louisville Orchestra. Under his artistic guidance of three of the Orchestra’s four subscription series, these series enjoyed exceptional growth. Schram’s recent foreign conducting engagements have included the KBS Symphony Orchestra in Seoul in live televised concerts, Korea’s Taegu Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestra der Allgemeinen Musikgesellschaft Luzern in Switzerland, among others. He has made return appearances in his native Holland to conduct the Netherlands Radio Orchestra and the Netherlands Broadcast Orchestra. In the United States, his recent guest appearances include the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Spokane Symphony, Dayton Philharmonic, Nashville Symphony, Shreveport Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Lubbock Symphony, Allentown Symphony, Mansfield Symphony, and Ballet Metropolitan, among others. Schram’s studies have been largely in the European tradition under the tutelage of Franco Ferrara at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy; Rafael Kubelik in Luzern, Switzerland; Abraham Kaplan in Seattle, Washington; and Neeme Järvi in Hilversum, Netherlands. He received the majority of his initial training at the Conservatory of The Hague in the Netherlands. He later moved to Canada to undertake studies at the Universities of Calgary and Victoria. His training was completed at the University of Washington where he earned the Doctorate of Musical Arts. During his studies, he frequently conducted the orchestral, festival, and choral ensembles of those universities. Dr. Schram resides in Florida with his wife Debbie and their children Natalia, Galen, and Gabriel. And please call him George!
Scott Jarrett This fall, Jarrett will begin his fourth season as Music Director and Conductor of the Oratorio Singers of Charlotte, the resident chorus of the Charlotte Symphony in North Carolina. This season Jarrett will lead the chorus and orchestra in semi-staged performances of Handel’s Saul, in addition to works by Bach and Mendelssohn, and chorus preparation for Orff’s Carmina burana. In recent seasons with the Charlotte Symphony, Jarrett conducted performances of Brahms’ Schicksalslied, Schumann’s Nachtlied, Messiah, Barber’s Prayers of Kierkegaard, and Mozart Violin Concerto No 4. Each year, Jarrett leads the Oratorio Singers Chamber Chorus in performance at the annual Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC. After guest conducting the 30th Anniversary Concert, Jarrett was named the fifth music director of the Back Bay Chorale in Boston. The performance of Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus garnered critical acclaim from the Boston Globe: “Judas Maccabaeus was a great success, and Jarrett established himself as the most promising young figure to emerge on the local choral scene… This was Jarrett’s night – he’s tasteful and talented, someone to keep our eyes and ears on.” Recent seasons included performances of Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri, the St Matthew Passion of Bach, Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, and the Beethoven Missa Solemnis. Highlights of the current season are Haydn’s ‘Lord Nelson’ Mass and Mendelssohn’s Elijah. For eight summers, Jarrett served as the Assistant Conductor of Choirs at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute where he assisted Dr. Ann Howard Jones. Also at Tanglewood, Jarrett taught advanced music theory and history to the students in the Young Artist Vocal Program. In August each year, Jarrett serves as Resident Conductor for New Hampshire’s White Mountain Musical Arts Bach Festival, leading the festival’s orchestra and chorus in performances of the great orchestral and choral masterworks of Bach. As a pianist, Jarrett frequently serves as rehearsal pianist and assistant for Ann Howard Jones. He also accompanied rehearsals for the late Robert Shaw during his Boston visits. As the rehearsal pianist for the Carnegie Hall Choral Workshop, Jarrett played rehearsals for Charles Dutoit. As a baritone, Jarrett has been a member of the Robert Shaw Festival Singers, the Boston Bach Ensemble, and Schola Cantorum of Boston. |
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