A frequent guest conductor in North America and Europe, Bernhard Gueller is Music Director of the Symphony Nova Scotia, and was recently named Principal Guest Conductor of the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra in South Africa; formal recognition of his extensive collaborative work with the orchestra.
In recent seasons, Gueller has led the orchestras of Stuttgart and Bretagne, the City of Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, the Adelaide Symphony, the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra in China, the KwaZulu Natal, and the Cape Philharmonic. In North America, he has made returns to the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and the Edmonton Symphony, and this season he leads the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Victoria Symphony and the Calgary Philharmonic.
Beginning his career as a cellist, Gueller won the Conducting Competition of the United German Radio in 1979, and was chosen by the legendary conductor Sergiu Celibidache to take the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra on a national tour and to conduct the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra on many occasions. Gueller also attracted the attention of the renowned arts administrator Ernest Fleischman who “was deeply impressed by his extraordinary musicianship, his marvellous ability to communicate with the musicians, and … his charismatic impact on the audience.”
Apart from his recordings for national and international broadcast in Germany, Canada and South Africa in particular, Bernhard Gueller has made recordings with several German orchestras and ensembles, and international soloists including flutist Peter Lukas Graf and the oboist Lajos Lences. Recent recordings include a CD of songs of Mahler and Wagner with mezzo-soprano Hanneli Rupert and the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra; and Dancing in the Light, an album of works by Canadian composer Christos Hatzis recorded with the Symphony Nova Scotia.
Bernhard Gueller makes his home in Halifax, Canada.
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