Orchestra Conducting

In rehearsals I care about effective and goal-oriented work. It’s very important to me to improve continuously a high quality and richly varied orchestral sound. I value accuracy and attention to detail without losing the overall conception of a project and offer helpful advices, exercises and goals to achieve an authentic, pure and true-to-style result. Due to my wide range of experience in various orchestral styles I focus on the typical sound character of the particular project.

I always strive to support and promote orchestras competently and professionally with my positive, open-minded approach and my pedagogical skills. The friendly and respectful treatment of the musicians is also very important to me. My creative, fresh but authentic interpretations of the works testify to a solid analysis of the musical material and intensive studies of important sources from the respective period of time.

Education in Orchestral Conducting, graduated from Lucerne University of Music and Latvian Academy of Music (Riga) under Howard Arman, Franz Schaffner and Andris Vecumnieks. Participation as an active student in master classes with Colin Metters (Berlin Sinfonietta), Douglas Bostock (Argovia philharmonic) and Georg Christoph Sandmann (Oper in Starnberg) complete my educational profile.

Currently, I conduct the orchestra of the Kantonsschule Frauenfeld and the Consortium Musicum Zurich (professional ad hoc orchestra). The Consortium Musicum Zürich is a professional ad hoc orchestra and forms part of the cantorial ministry of the ecumenical partnership between the parishes of St. Anton and Neumünster in Zürich. Its primary role is to accompany the Cantus choir and its Atelier choirs. In addition, the Consortium Musicum Zürich regularly presents its own concert programmes and participates in church services. As the orchestra performs a wide range of musical styles, it draws on a large pool of professional musicians with diverse artistic backgrounds and areas of expertise. Alongside the major Romantic repertoire, the orchestra also regularly develops programmes on period instruments, with a particular focus on historically informed performance practice.