卡斯帕‧參德 l 指揮

卡斯帕‧參德於2012-13樂季起擔任瑞士的比爾索洛圖恩交響樂團藝術總監，自1999年起則擔任穆爾藤古典音樂節的藝術總監。2005至2012年間，他亦出任瑞士伯恩保羅克勒中心的藝術總監。

2005年至2008年間，參德從伊里‧貝洛拉維克的手中接下布拉格愛樂的首席指揮棒，自此常與布拉格愛樂至各地擔任客席指揮，合作過的獨奏家包括馬格達萊納‧科齊娜、喬瑟夫‧克萊亞、娜塔莉‧顧德曼、帕特里夏‧科帕欽斯卡雅、瑞秋‧海尼西、洛德克‧巴伯羅柯、吉里‧巴爾塔、珍娜‧鮑什科娃、布魯諾·岡茨、薇薇安‧哈格納、康士坦丁‧列夫席茲、瑟吉‧哈察特楊、伊莎貝爾‧范‧科伊倫、瑪芮雅娜‧波瑟，以及安托萬‧塔梅斯蒂。與此同時，國際上諸多樂團仍爭相邀請參德擔任客席指揮。

參德自從2007年10月於米蘭斯卡拉歌劇院帶來令人驚豔的首演之後，便廣受各界之邀擔任指揮，如蒙彼利埃國立管弦樂團、斯洛伐克愛樂、琉森交響樂團、法蘭西島國家交響樂團、英國室內管弦樂團、巴塞爾交響樂團、布拉格愛樂、布爾諾愛樂、華沙與布加勒斯特廣播交響樂團、立陶宛國家愛樂等等。

參德於瑞士的比爾索洛圖恩歌劇院指揮馬里安‧烈佳瓦室內樂版本《露莎卡》（原作安東寧·德弗札克）的全球首演，一舉贏得國際讚譽。

2014-15樂季之初，參德指揮英國室內管弦樂團的慶典音樂會，英國皇室查爾斯王子亦親臨現場欣賞，此外他亦於梅茨歌劇院指揮新製作的莫札特《後宮誘逃》。同時，參德以獨奏者與指揮的身分與多個室內樂團合作演出，這亦是其展演歷程中十分重要的一環，這點從專輯作品中可見一斑，例如2012年由ArcoDiva發行、與埃爾文·舒爾霍夫、拉斯佐羅‧維納、歐內斯特·布洛赫，以及華特‧克烈博等知名音樂家合作的雙重協奏曲與三重協奏曲 。

Kaspar Zehnder l Conductor

Kaspar Zehnder has been the Artistic Director of the Biel Solothurn Symphony Orchestra (Switzerland) since the start of the 2012-13 season and the Artistic Director of the Murten Classics Festival since 1999. He also served as the music director at the Paul Klee Centre in Bern from 2005 to 2012.

From 2005 to 2008, Zehnder led the Prague Philharmonia as the orchestra’s Chief Conductor (succeeding Jiří Bělohlávek). Since then, he has often appeared with the orchestra as a guest conductor. He cooperates with soloists including Magdalena Kožená, Joseph Calleja, Natalia Gutman, Patricia Kopatchinskaia, Rachel Harnisch, Radek Baborák, Jiří Bárta, Jana Boušková, Bruno Ganz, Viviane Hagner, Konstantin Lifschitz, Sergej Katchatryan, Isabelle van Keulen, Marianne Pousseur and Antoine Tamestit, and is in international demand as a guest conductor.

Since his remarkable debut at La Scala in Milan in October 2007, Zehnder has been invited to conduct the Orchestre National de Montpellier, the Slovak Philharmonic, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National d'Ile-de-France, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Basel Symphony, the Prague Philharmonia, the Brno Philharmonic, the Warsaw and Bucharest Radio Orchestras, the Lithuanian National Philharmonic and many others.

The world premiere of Antonín Dvořák’s Rusalka at the Theater Biel Solothurn in the chamber version by Marián Lejava was an internationally acclaimed success.

Zehnder opened the 2014-15 season with a gala concert of the English Chamber Orchestra in presence of HRH Prince Charles. He also conducted a new production of Mozart’s Entführung at the Opera Metz. An important part of Zehnder’s musical activities are his performances as both soloist and conductor with various chamber orchestras, which are reflected in his discography (for example, the double and triple concertos by Erwin Schulhoff, Laszlo Weiner, Ernest Bloch and Walter Klepper issued by ArcoDiva, 2012).