New impulses
Gregor Bühl becomes Professor of Orchestral Conducting in Weimar
The Department of Conducting and Opera Répétiteur studies at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar is strengthening its team with an experienced conductor and accomplished teacher. Gregor Bühl is succeeding Prof. Nicolás Pasquet, taking up the call to the professorship of orchestral conducting on 1 April 2025.
On Thursday, 6 March, he was warmly welcomed by the university's president, Prof. Anne-Kathrin Lindig.
‘It is a great pleasure and honour for me to become part of the ‘Weimar conductor's forge’,’ said the designated new professor of conducting. ‘For many years, exemplary work has been done here in conducting education, and I will do my best to continue this great tradition.’
‘We are delighted to welcome Gregor Bühl, a very successful conductor and experienced teacher, to the department,’ says the director of the Department of Conducting and Opera Répétiteur studies, Prof. Ulrich Vogel.
‘The maxim of our ‘association’, to accompany students on their way to their profession in the best possible and most stringent way, will be transferred by Prof. Bühl into his very individual style as a musician and teacher, and he will certainly give the team new impulses. On behalf of all students and colleagues, I wish him all the best and a happy arrival in Weimar.’
Gregor Bühl is an internationally sought-after opera and concert conductor. He attracted international attention with his new production of the ‘Der Ring des Nibelungen’ cycle at the Royal Opera in Stockholm. The entire production was broadcast by Swedish television.
In recent years, Gregor Bühl has recorded the orchestral works of Walter Braunfels with the RSO Vienna and the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie for the Capriccio label. The fourth and final CD in the series won the German Record Critics' Prize. The second CD, featuring works by Niklos Rozsa, will be released in April, also on the Capriccio label.
In recent seasons, Gregor Bühl has regularly conducted various operas at the Basel Theatre, the Royal Opera in Copenhagen, the Hamburg State Opera and the Stuttgart State Opera. He also regularly works with the Staatstheater Hannover, where he has conducted several new productions in recent seasons, including the German premiere of Manfred Trojahn's ‘Orest’ and a highly acclaimed production of Verdi's ‘Traviata’, which he is currently also conducting at the Theater Basel.
In 2021, he conducted the highly acclaimed world premiere of the opera ‘Electric Saint’ by Steward Copeland at the German National Theatre in Weimar. Bühl made his North American debut at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto with ‘Fidelio’ and his South American debut at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires with a production of Lehár's ‘The Merry Widow’.
Guest conducting engagements have taken him to the Opéra National de Montpellier, the Semperoper Dresden, where he conducted the rarely performed Strauss adaptation of Mozart's ‘Idomeneo’, as well as to the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Leipzig Opera.
On concert tours throughout Germany, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Israel, Gregor Bühl has worked with the radio symphony orchestras of Vienna, Berlin, Hamburg, Saarbrücken, Hilversum and Hannover, as well as with the Finnish and Danish radio orchestras. Further engagements have taken him to the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra and the Rhineland-Palatinate State Philharmonic Orchestra.
He had his first conducting engagement as assistant to Gerd Albrecht at the Hamburg State Opera before moving to the Hannover State Theatre as first Kapellmeister in 1995. During the six years he remained associated with this house, he conducted a wide-ranging repertoire that included not only the great German and Italian operas, but also important contemporary works. A CD recording of American works for clarinet with Sharon Kam and the London Symphony Orchestra received the ‘German Record Critics’ Award’.
Gregor Bühl was born in 1964 and began his conducting studies at the Düsseldorf Music university under Wolfgang Trommer. He took part in masterclasses with Ferdinand Leitner, Gary Bertini and Gerd Albrecht. In 1995, he was awarded second prize at the Nikolai Malko Conducting Competition in Copenhagen and in 1993 the Berenberg Bank Culture Prize in Hamburg. He was a scholarship holder of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and the DAAD.
[6 March 2025]