Eckehard Stier is the Chief Conductor and Music Director
of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in New Zealand, General Music Director
of the city of Görlitz and Music Director of the New Lausitz
Philharmonie.
With a repertoire of 70 stage works and twice as many symphonic
works, Eckehard Stier is without a doubt a remarkable figure in the newest
generation of young conductors.
Today's musical personality, Eckehard Stier, is the logical
consequence of a lifetime of experience, beginning as a boy soprano as the
section leader in Dresden's world renowned "Kreuzchor". As a student in the
music conservatory "Carl Maria von Weber" in Dresden he was the leader of the
Conservatory Orchestra, and at the young age of 25 staff conductor with the
Opera Theater of Chemnitz Germany. After his success in a new production of
Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer in Görlitz he was
named Chief Conductor of the New Lausitz Philharmonic Orchestra.
His broad concert repertoire has made him a popular guest with
such orchestras as the Sächsischen Staatskapelle Dresden, Melbourne
Symphony Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Staatskapelle Halle,
Robert Schumann Philharmonie Chemnitz, MDR- Sinfonieorchester, Dresdner
Sinfonikern, Münchner Symphonikern and the NRT Radio Orchester Zagreb. His
keen sense for the opera stage has led to guest appearances where he has
conducted such works as La Bohéme, Der fliegende
Holländer, Fidelio and Die Jungfrau von
Orleans in such Theaters as the Comic Opera Berlin, the Nurmberg Opera,
the Staatsoper Hannover and the Strassbourg Opera. In addition to his
conducting activities in all areas of classical music, his enormous affinity
for jazz music has made him a popular guest in "Big Jazz Concerts" with
philharmonic forces. He conducted the German premier of Howard Brubeck's
Dialogues for Jazz-Combo and Orchestra in the Kurt Weill city of
Dessau. His appearances as pianist in various jazz formations in the last year
led to a recording of a "Jazz Ballad CD" with saxaphonist Ive
Kanew.