Bach becomes director of the Freiburg Chamber Orchestra
The Swiss conductor Philippe Bach takes over the direction of the Fribourg Chamber Orchestra. He succeeds the ensemble's founder Laurent Gendre.
Born in 1974, Philippe Bach studied horn at the Bern University of Music and the Conservatoire de Genève and conducting in Zurich with Johannes Schlaefli and at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester with Sir Mark Elder. From 2006 to 2008 he was Assistant Conductor at the Teatro Real in Madrid and assistant to Jesús López Cobos. From 2008 to 2010, he was First Kapellmeister and Deputy GMD at Theater Lübeck and from 2010 to 2022 General Music Director of the Meininger Hofkapelle. He has been Chief Conductor of the Bern Chamber Orchestra since 2012 and Chief Conductor of the Kammerphilharmonie Graubünden since 2016.
Founded in 2009, the 36-member Fribourg Chamber Orchestra (FKO) performs at the Equilibre Fribourg, the Podium Düdingen and in one of the halls of the CO of the Bulle region. It can also be heard in the music theater season of the NOF - Neue Oper Fribourg and regularly accompanies the projects of numerous vocal ensembles in the region.
