PETER-RUNDEL

Peter Rundel

It is now more than 20 years ago that Peter Rundel made his debut as a conductor. Formerly known as a brilliant violinist, he has since distinguished himself in the diversity of his projects with great European orchestras. He is regularly invited to guest conduct the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, DSO and RSO Berlin, RSO Stuttgart, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, as well as the radio orchestras of SWR Baden-Baden, Frankfurt, Saarland, the ORF Vienna and the Orchestra Nazionale della RAI Torino. Most recently he conducted orchestras such as the Orchestra Nacional de Madrid, the Orchestre National de Lille and the Orquestra Nacional do Porto and the Philharmonia Orchestra in London.

In the past, Peter Rundel has been Artistic Director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders (Co-Chief Conductor with Philippe Herreweghe from 1998 until 2001), of the Kammerakademie Potsdam when it was first established (1999 - 2001) as well as of the Vienna Taschenoper since 1999. At the beginning of 2005 he became Artistic Director of the Remix Ensemble in Porto.

Peter Rundel has conducted opera productions at the Bavarian State Opera, the Vienna Festwochen, the Deutsche Oper Berlin and at the Bregenz Festival, collaborating with such widely respected directors as Peter Konwitschny, Philippe Arlaud, Reinhild Hoffmann and Joachim Schlömer.

Born in 1958 in Friedrichshafen, Germany, Peter Rundel studied violin with Igor Ozim and Ramy Shevelov in Cologne, Hannover and New York, as well as conducting with Michael Gielen and Peter Eötvös. The composer Jack Brimberg also taught him in New York. From 1984 to 1996 he was a violinist in Ensemble Modern, to which he remains closely affiliated as a conductor. In the area of Contemporary Music he has enjoyed long associations with Ensemble Recherche, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Resonanz, the Asko Ensemble and Klangforum Wien. He is also a regular guest with Ensemble Intercontemporain Paris, the Ictus Ensemble Brussels and musikFabrik.

Peter Rundel has been awarded many prizes for his recordings of 20th century music, including the prestigious ‘Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik', with which he has been honoured several times (Luigi Nono Promoteo, EMI; Hanspeter Kyburz, Ensemble and Orchestral Works, Kairos; Steve Reich City Life, BMG). In August 2007, he received this prize once again for his CD with the Oslo Philharmonic and Christian Lindberg with the trombone concertos of Berio, Xenakis and Turnage. He was awarded the ‘Grand Prix du Disque' (Jean Barraqué, Complete Works, jpc) and nominated for the Grammy Award (Heiner Goebbels Surrogate Cities, ECM). In the 2007/2008 season, he performed Mark Anthony Turnage's Blood on the Floor (CD available on ARGO) as Director of the Ensemble Remix.