BIOGRAPHY  

“Conductor Gregor Bühl is a discovery - he squeezes the sweetness out of the strings, but at the same time has no fear to dip the Wagnertuben in buckets of blood”
SvD, Sofia Nyblom, 27.2.2006

German conductor Gregor Bühl currently has strong ties to the Royal Opera Stockholm, where he is conducting their new Ring Cycle. To date, Rheingold, Walküre and Siegfried have been enthusiastically received by public and critics alike. Starting January 2008, three complete "Ring" cycles will take place and will be recorded by Swedish Television, to be released on DVD.  The collaboration with the Royal Opera is set to continue in November 2008 with Tristan und Isolde.

Mr. Bühl was born in 1964 and started his conducting studies at the Musikhochschule in Düsseldorf with Wolfgang Trommer. He participated in master classes with Ferdinand Leitner (1985 Salzburg), Gary Bertini (1996 Salzburg), Hiroyuki Iwaki (1990 Hilversum) and Gerd Albrecht (1990 Berlin). Following the master class in Berlin, Mr. Bühl was chosen by Mr. Albrecht to be his assistant at the Hamburg Opera (1991-95). In 1995, he was awarded the second prize of the Nikolai Malko Conductors’ Competition in Copenhagen, and in 1993, the culture prize of Berenberg Bank in Hamburg. He also received scholarships from "Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben" and "DAAD".
 
During his tenure first in the Hamburg Opera and then as first Kapellmeister at the Staatsoper Hannover (1995-2001), Gregor Bühl developed a broad operatic repertoire, encompassing not only the major German and Italian repertoire, but also many contemporary works. Among the productions he led were Ariadne auf Naxos (1996), Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1997), Der Rosenkavalier (1999), Lohengrin, Elektra, and a production of Wagner’s Ring, for which he was hailed as having "tackled this gigantic task with bravour".
 
In addition to his current success in Stockholm, Mr. Bühl has been engaged at the opera houses of Berlin (Deutsche Oper), Stuttgart, Köln, Frankfurt, Weimar, Lissabon, Göteborg, Oslo, Caracas and Reykjavik. Following his debut in Dresden"s Semperoper with Puccini"s Madame Butterfly, Mr. Bühl was re-invited to conduct a production of the rarely performed Strauss revision of Mozart’s Idomeneo.
 
As guest conductor, Gregor Bühl has appeared with such orchestras as: the Radio Symphony Orchestras of Berlin, Hamburg, Hilversum, Hannover, Leipzig and the the Finnish and Danish National Radio Orchestras; the Gewandhaus Orchestra ,the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Israel and Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestras and the Symphony orchestras of Trondheim, Kanazawa, Iceland, Stavanger and Lahti.
 
Available recordings include a CD of American Clarinet Music with Sharon Kam and the London Symphony Orchestra and a selection of works by Mendelssohn, Spohr and Rossini with Sharon Kam and the MDR Symphony Orchestra, which was recently awarded the Echo Classics.