Curriculum Vitae
Jörg Bierhance is Conductor and Music Director of "Blutenburg Kammerphilharmonie München" and "Opera Nymphenburg".
Other orchestras he has conducted include the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Sinfonietta Baden, Orquesta Filarmónica de Zacatecas, México, Ulmer Philharmoniker, Orchester der Bonner Beethovenhalle, Sinfonietta Baden/Wien, the Kaposvár Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of Oslo Music Academy, Norway and the Vaasa City Orchestra, Finland.
Two other important areas of his work are teaching masterclasses for conductors in Germany, México, Hungary, Spain and Bulgaria as well as serving as teacher for conducting technique in Vienna at the yearly "Wiener Meisterkurse für junge Dirigenten".
Jörg Bierhance was born in Germany in 1966. He began his musical studies by conducting student ensembles in Germany (he conducted his first public concert with his school orchestra at age 15) and freelancing as a violist in several professional orchestras and ensembles.
In 1989, he began his studies in conducting with the late Sergiu Celibidache, which led to Jörg becoming a student in his conducting masterclass in Munich and Paris until 1996.
In 1996, Jörg went to Bucharest to study conducting with Constantin Bugeanu. From 1998 to 2001 he was a student in the masterclass of the legendary Finnish conducting teacher Jorma Panula in Finland, Italy, Moscow and elsewhere.
During this time, he was a conducting scholar of the Stiftung Kunst und Kultur des Landes Nordrhein - Westfalen.
In 1999 he participated in the Vienna Masterclass for Conductors (Wiener Meisterkurse), held by Salvador Mas Conde. Having been named the "Best Participant" in 1999, he was invited from 2000-on to continue being responsible for teaching conducting technique.
Jörg's repertoire includes all of the standard symphonic repertoire, principally focused on the symphonies of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Bruckner and Sibelius as well as the orchestral repertoire of Debussy and Ravel, as well as 20th century repertoire such as Stravinsky, Bartok, Webern and Berg.
Having begun his musical education as a viola player, he came early to orchestral music, playing in the Landesjugendorchester Baden-Wuerttemberg and the Junge Sueddeutsche Philharmonie. He studied viola with Berta Volmer and Reiner Schmidt. He played in the Folkwang-Chamber-Orchestra Essen, the ensemble neue musik Düsseldorf and was co-founder and violist of the Düsseldorf Arbos String Quartet for contemporary music.
As an author, he has published an article "New Steps in Solfège" in Podium Notes (issue Summer/Fall 2000) of The Conductors Guild, USA, regarding the chromatic solfeggio of Constantin Bugeanu.