Beethoven 4 & 5

Bruno Weil 

Guest Director

Bruno Weil is world renowned as one of the leading conductors of Viennese Classicism. He has conducted leading symphony orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Dresden Staatskapelle, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. He has conducted at the German Opera Berlin, Hamburg State Opera, Semper Opera Dresden, Glyndebourne Festival, and most often at the Vienna State Opera.

Since 1991 he has been a regular collaborator with Tafelmusik, with whom he has released numerous recordings, including the complete cycle of Beethoven symphonies. Bruno Weil was Music Director of the Carmel Bach Festival, California from 1992 to 2010, and was Artistic Director of the Klang und Raum Festival in Irsee, Germany, at which Tafelmusik was orchestra-in-residence, from 1993 to 2011.

In October 2001, Bruno Weil was appointed Professor of Conducting at the State Academy for Music and Theatre in Munich, and from 2015–2019 taught orchestral conducting at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. He is writing a book on “The lost style of the Viennese classical period.”