Basel Sinfonietta with new co-director
Thomas Wehry, who previously worked at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, will become the new Co-Managing Director of the Basel Sinfonietta from December 1. He succeeds Eva Ruckstuhl, who is moving to a communications agency in Zurich as PR project manager.
Like his predecessor, Thomas Wehry is responsible for marketing and communication at the Basel Sinfonietta. Together with the previous Co-Managing Director, Felix Heri, he is responsible for the management.
Thomas Wehry comes from northern Germany. After studying music, theater and economics at the University of Bayreuth, he worked as an assistant director and production manager at the opera houses in Munich, Stuttgart and Basel. From 2011 to 2014, he was engaged as an opera consultant at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. There he was involved in setting up the Easter Festival of the Berliner Philharmoniker, developing and establishing the new genres of chamber and children's opera.
With the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg and the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, among others, he was able to realize new concert projects at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, most recently for the Summer Festival in July 2014. Thomas Wehry has been based in Basel since 2007 and has had his main residence here since 2011.
