Zug Sinfonietta under new direction
The Zug Sinfonietta has appointed Daniel Huppert, the future General Music Director at Theater Schwerin, as its new Chief Conductor. He will take up the post in summer 2016.
The choice was made after a selection process lasting almost two years with over 270 applications. Huppert will already conduct two concerts in the 2015/16 season: on December 8, 2015 and January 30, 2016.
Daniel Huppert initially studied cello and conducting as well as musicology and German studies in Saarbrücken and then continued his studies in Weimar at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. This was followed by postgraduate studies in concert performance.
In 2010, he won the 2nd German Operetta Prize for Young Conductors at Leipzig Opera. He won the MDR Symphony Orchestra Leipzig Conducting Competition and the International Lutoslawski Competition for Young Conductors in Poland in 2011.
Until the end of 2010, he was engaged as "Assistant du chef d'orchestre" at the Opéra national de Paris (Bastille).
Daniel Huppert was a fellow of the Conductors' Forum of the German Music Council. In the 2015/16 season, Daniel Huppert will conduct the new production of "The Tales of Hoffmann" at the Komische Oper Berlin, directed by Barry Kosky.
