Prof. Gregor Bühl

Gregor Bühl was born in 1964 and began his conducting studies at the Düsseldorf University of Music with Wolfgang Trommer. He took part in masterclasses with Ferdinand Leitner, Gary Bertini and Gerd Albrecht. In 1995 he was awarded 2nd prize at the Nikolai Malko Conducting Competition in Copenhagen and in 1993 the Berenberg Bank Culture Prize in Hamburg. He has received scholarships from the German Foundation for Musical Life and the DAAD.

Gregor Bühl is an internationally sought-after opera and concert conductor. His new production of the ‘Der Ring des Nibelungen’ cycle at the Royal Opera in Stockholm attracted international attention. The entire production was broadcast on Swedish television. In recent years, Gregor Bühl has recorded the orchestral works of Walter Braunfels with the Vienna RSO and the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie for the Capriccio label. The fourth and last CD in the series was honoured with the ‘Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik’. The second CD with works by Niklos Rozsa will be released in April, also on Capriccio.

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 works regularly 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 Basel Theatre.

In 2021, he conducted the highly acclaimed world premiere of Steward Copeland's opera ‘Electric Saint’ at the Deutsches Nationaltheater 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 ‘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 the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Leipzig Opera.

On concert tours through Germany, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Israel, Gregor Bühl has worked with the radio symphony orchestras of Vienna, Berlin, Hamburg, Saarbrücken, Hilversum and Hanover as well as with the Finnish and Danish radio orchestras. Further conducting engagements have taken him to the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra and the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz.

He had his first conducting engagement as assistant to Gerd Albrecht at the Hamburg State Opera before moving to the Hanover State Theatre as Principal Conductor in 1995. During the six years he remained associated with this theatre, he conducted a wide-ranging repertoire that included not only the great German and Italian operas, but also important contemporary works. A CD recording with Sharon Kam and the London Symphony Orchestra with American works for clarinet was awarded the ‘Deutscher Schallplattenpreis’.