Simon Gaudenz becomes GMD in Jena
Simon Gaudenz will be the new General Music Director of the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra from the 2018/19 season. The Jena orchestra elected the Swiss conductor as Marc Tardue's successor by a large majority.
According to the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra, Gaudenz won out against well over 100 competitors. He convinced "the Jena musicians with his professional qualities, his musical ideas and concepts as well as his charisma as a person and artist". In the coming season, he will already be conducting six concerts in Jena
Simon Gaudenz has been Chief Conductor of the Hamburg Camerata chamber orchestra since 2012 and Principal Guest Conductor of the Odense Symphony Orchestra since 2010. From 2004 to 2011 he was Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Collegium Musicum Basel. Before that, he conducted the camerata variabile basel for four years.
The Jena Philharmonic Orchestra is the largest concert orchestra in Thuringia and the only one with three associated choirs, the Philharmonic Choir, the Jena Madrigal Circle and the Boys' Choir. It was founded in 1934 as the municipal symphony orchestra on the occasion of the city's 700th anniversary celebrations and has been a permanent fixture in the cultural life of the city and state ever since.
Simon Gaudenz: www.simongaudenz.com
