Jonathan
Stockhammer

“I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.”
— Claude Debussy
Jonathan Stockhammer
“I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.”
— Claude Debussy

Conductor Jonathan Stockhammer’s approach to music resembles a prism: a single idea leads him to many different forms of collaboration and music-making. His multifaceted repertoire and astonishing range of projects emanate from a deeply held conviction that great music cannot and should not be limited to any particular category or box.

A charismatic communicator, Jonathan applies his interpretational and theatrical sensibilities to both well-known, beloved repertoire as well as to overlooked masterworks of the past. Composers of today respect him as an experienced, flexible and astute partner in bringing their new works to life. On stage he forges strong bonds between performers and audiences. In rehearsal and performance alike, Jonathan has a gift for creating a community of the moment and for the moment.

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Debussy – La Mer

First movement De l’aube à midi sur la mer of Claude Debussy’s La Mer with the London Symphony Orchestra recorded live in concert at the Barbican in London on 20 April 2023.
“Working with an impressionistic musical canvas revealed Stockhammer’s adaptability as a conductor, as he revelled in Debussy’s masterly use of instrumental textures. There was a real sense of nature awakening.” – Opera and Classical Music Reviews

Dvorak – Symphony No. 9

A taste from the Twitch TV interactive livestreaming concert featuring Jonathan Stockhammer conducting the Konzerthausorchester Berlin in Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”.

Nono – Al gran sole carico d’amore

Introduction (in German) to Luigi Nono’s Al gran sole carico d’amore. Jonathan Stockhammer conducted the Sinfonieorchester Basel at Theater Basel in 2019. “He accomplishes the remarkable feat of bringing forth a broad range of tones from a large apparatus.” – Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Fujikura – Recorder Concerto

Jonathan Stockhammer, soloist Jeremias Schwarzer and the Bamberg Symphony dedicated themselves to the diversity of the recorder with works by the Japanese composer Dai Fujikura in 2021.

Zappa – Peaches En Regalia

In 2020, Jonathan Stockhammer conducted Ensemble Modern in Peaches En Regalia and other works by Frank Zappa. Performed in the Main Hall of the Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg.

Listen also to their CD recording from 2003.

“Jonathan Stockhammer conducting the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin is a passionate musician who knows something about control as a path to ecstasy.”

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung about “glut” and other orchestral works by Dieter Ammann

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22 May ‘25
Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall, Tokyo, JP

Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra
Hornroh Modern Alphorn Quartet,

MENDELSSOHN
The Hebrides overture, op.26
GUSTAV MAHLER
Adagio aus der Symphonie Nr.10
GEORG FRIEDRICH HAAS
„... e finisci già?”
concerto grosso

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7 Jun ‘25
Festspielhaus, Badan-Baden, DE

SWR Symphonieorchester

FRANK ZAPPA
What will Rumi do?
Night School
Revised Music for Low Budget Orchestra
The Black Page
Naval Aviation in Art?
Put a Motor in yourself
Moggio

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23 Jul ‘25
Music in PyeongChang, PyeongChang, KR

Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra
Sunyoung Seo, Sprano
Jungmi Kim, Mezzo Soprano

GUSTAV MAHLER
Symphony No. 2- "Resurrection"

14 Aug ‘25
Ljubljana Festival, Ljubljana, SI

Ensemble Dissonance
Nika Gorič, soprano
Jaka Mihelač, bariton

VITO ŽURAJ:
Book of Bodies for Soprano and Chamber String Orchestra
GUSTAV MAHLER
Des Knaben Wunderhorn

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Kaun – Symphony No. 3, Symphonic poems: Minnehaha, Hiawatha

Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Jonathan Stockhammer, conductor

“Balanced tempi which are not mechanically maintained, subtle rubati in appropriate places, a lyrical approach, careful realisation of articulation and a consistently well-balanced orchestral sound testify to the fact that Hugo Kaun has found a capable and prudent advocate in Jonathan Stockhammer.” – Klassik Heute

“An absolute tour de force.” – Klassik.com

 

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