Our 2024/2025 season opens with Mahler's majestic Symphony No.7. We are delighted to welcome back Johann Stuckenbruck as our conductor.
Following successful débuts across Europe and North America, British-American conductor Johann Stuckenbruck is fast establishing himself as an outstanding talent on the international stage.
Stuckenbruck’s upcoming highlights for 2024-2025 include débuts with Orchestre National de Bretagne, Orchestre Symphonique du Saguenay Lac-Saint-Jean, and the Portland Chamber Orchestra as well as returns to Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège, the Royal Academy of Music, Salomon Orchestra, and the Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra.
Previous seasons in the opera house have included multiple appearances at Glyndebourne, in the 2021-2022 Season Stuckenbruck conducted the world premiere of Glyndebourne’s award-winning commission Pay the Piper and conducted Don Pasquale on the Glyndebourne tour. He has also assisted Glyndebourne music director Robin Ticciati on festival productions of Kát’a Kabanová and The Wreckers including the subsequent performance at the BBC Proms. Stuckenbruck also worked at Opéra National de Paris, Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège, Opera North, Opera de Tenerife, the Royal Academy of Music and gave a critically acclaimed performance of Kurt Weill’s rare opera The Tsar Has his Photograph Taken at the Bloomsbury Theatre.
In the concert hall, Stuckenbruck has appeared regularly with the San Diego Symphony, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, and the Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra. Stuckenbruck has also conducted The Hallé, the Royal Northern Sinfonia, Conservatori Superior de Música de les Illes Balears, the Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra, Salomon Orchestra, Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra, the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté.
Stuckenbruck has given numerous world premieres including works by Rob Keeley, Sophya Polevaya, Steve Pickett, Matthew Olyver, Tim Bowers and Robin Haigh. He recorded Vasilis Alevizos’s Concerto for Piano and Symphony Orchestra while at the Royal Academy of Music and more recently the composer’s score to the multi award-winning short film DIVA, which débuted at the LA Film Festival, Milan Film Festival and the British Film Institute. Stuckenbruck has also conducted in the world premieres of Joanna Lee’s vast community opera No Sound Ever Dies at the Brooklands Museum and Belongings by Lewis Murphy at Glyndebourne.
Recipient of the ASRAM Prize, Stuckenbruck graduated with distinction in Orchestral Conducting from the Royal Academy of Music where he studied with Sian Edwards and participated in masterclasses with visiting conductors Martyn Brabbins and Mark Stringer. Abroad, he participated in masterclasses and received mentorship from Daniele Gatti, Marin Alsop, Giancarlo Guerrero, Arvo Volmer, and Neil Thompson.
