Music Director

ECKEHARD STIER

Music Director

Eckehard Stier is the Music Director of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Theatre Görlitz in Germany, and is a leading figure in the new generation of conductors. He comes from a musical family and as a boy was a member of Dresden’s world famous choir, the Kreuzchor.

After being awarded a scholarship, he started conducting lessons at the age of 14. While still at the conservatorium in Dresden, he had already started conducting professionally and was an assistant to Harmut Haenchen at the Netherlands Opera.
At the age of 23, he became a staff conductor with the Opera Theatre of Chemnitz conducting opera and ballet productions. His opera repertoire includes nearly 80 works from 300 years of opera history. He also guest conducted with the Komische Oper Berlin, the Nürnberg Opera, State Opera of Hannover and the Opera du Rhin in Strasbourg.

Eckehard Stier has also established a strong reputation as a symphonic conductor, and conducted concerts with the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Dresdner Philharmonic Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Middle German Radio Symphony Orchestra in Leipzig's famous Gewandhaus, the Munich Symphony Orchestra and Chemnitz's Robert Schumann Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 2003 he was named Chief Conductor of the New Lausitz Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition to his conducting activities, his enormous affinity for jazz has led to successful collaborations, including conducting the German premiere of Howard Brubeck`s Dialogues for Jazz-Combo and Orchestra in Dessau.

In 2010 he will return for concerts in the Munich Philharmonic and in the Cologne Philharmonic.

Eckehard Stier is proudly supported by Siemens

For more information please visit Eckehard's website: www.eckehardstier.com