Conductor
Jonathan Stockhammer regularly conducts leading international orchestras including the Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Oslo Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Philharmonia, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, to name a few.
Opera plays a central role in Stockhammer’s career, with notable performances including Akhnaten (Glass), Satyagraha (Glass), Dialogues des Carmélites (Poulenc), The Cunning Little Vixen (Janáček), Carmen (Bizet), L’Heure Espagnole (Ravel), Powder Her Face (Adès), Faustus – the Last Night (Dusapin), Eine florentinische Tragödie (Zemlinsky), Al gran sole carico d’amore (Nono), Tri Sestri/Three Sisters (Eötvös), Proserpina (Rihm), and Luci mie traditrici (Sciarrino). He has conducted at prestigious houses such as the Vienna State Opera, Zurich Opera, Staatsoper Berlin, New York City Opera, Oper Frankfurt, Theater Basel, Opera Vlaanderen, the New National Theatre Tokyo, and Komische Oper Berlin.
Stockhammer explores music that blurs the boundaries between classical music, rock, pop and hip-hop. His CD Greggery Peccary & Other Persuasions with Ensemble Modern, featuring works by Frank Zappa, won an Echo Klassik Award. He also recorded a new soundtrack to Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 film Battleship Potemkin, composed and performed by the Pet Shop Boys. His live recording of The New Crystal Silence with Chick Corea, Gary Burton and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra won a Grammy in 2009. His collaboration with spoken word artist Saul Williams on Said the Shotgun to the Head, featuring music composed by Thomas Kessler, has also been particularly successful.
Born in Los Angeles in 1969, Jonathan studied composition with Ian Krouse and Stephen Hartke, and conducting with Daniel Lewis. Still a student, he had the opportunity to fill in for a series of concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and was subsequently mentored by chief conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen. He later moved to Germany where he still resides.
