Corinna Niemeyer
Contact
For availability and general enquiries:
Alison Nethsingha
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Holly Cartwright
Representation
Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt
About Corinna
Recent and future orchestral highlights include the Orchestre de Paris, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Hallé, MDR Sinfonieorchester, Kammerakademie Potsdam and Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León. Corinna has also had regular projects with Les Siècles and Ensemble Modern, and this season returns to Ensemble Intercontemporain.
Corinna Niemeyer was appointed Music Director of the Orchestre de Chambre du Luxembourg in September 2020, a position she held for four seasons. During her tenure the orchestra established relationships with several artists of international renowned and new audiences were attracted through her innovative programmes, encompassing works from Haydn and Mozart to Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été with Ian Bostridge and Ligeti’s Mysteries of the Macabre.
Corinna is establishing her reputation as an opera conductor, making her debut this season with both English National Opera (Suor Angelica) and Detroit Opera (new production of Cosi fan tutte ). She will also conduct staged productions of George Benjamin’s Picture a day like this in both Luxembourg and at the Tiroler Festspiele Erl. Corinna conducted the UK premiere of this work at the Royal Opera house last season, which followed her acclaimed debut in Autumn 2022 with a new production of Rape of Lucretia, co-produced with Britten Pears Arts.
Her enthusiasm for conveying music in innovative ways is reflected in the breadth of her activities, which include period music ensembles, contemporary premieres, cross-disciplinary projects, opera, as well as mainstream symphonic projects. She has established a reputation for her ability to connect with audiences and for her creative approach to presenting concerts.
Representation
Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt
Season Highlights
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Ravel: L'Enfant et les Sortilèges
Credit: Opéra de Lille, Les Siècles
PlayingPoulenc: Organ Concerto in G minor
Credit: Orchestre de Paris
PlayingPoulenc: Sinfonietta
Credit: Orchestre de Paris
PlayingBeethoven: Symphony No. 7
Credit: Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra
PlayingMendelssohn: Hebrides Overture
Credit: Konzerthausorchester Berlin
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Press
Puccini: Suor Angelica
English National Opera, London ColiseumSep 2024And in a superb house debut, it’s beautifully conducted by Corinna Niemeyer and faultlessly played. An outstanding achievement, and it should, by right, belong in ENO’s regular repertory. *****
- The Guardian
- 29 September 2024
The English National Opera Orchestra played Puccini’s score superbly under the eloquent baton of Corinne Niemeyer, while a selection of the ENO Chorus together with some distinguished solo singers completed an impeccable all-female company. *****
- Bachtrack
- 29 September 2024
The conductor Corinna Niemeyer coaxed excellent playing from the ENO orchestra — often delicately misty and evocative but with a fierce tragic force unleashed at the tragic climax of one of Puccini’s most underrated scores.
- The Times
- 30 September 2024
Corinna Niemeyer, conducting without a baton, sweeps the music into a frightening mix of sentiment, religiosity, and despair.
- The Telegraph
- 28 September 2024
…ENO’s superb orchestra… shade in the subtle colours and gentle harmonies of a score that once or twice rises to extraordinary heights of either emotional desperation or spiritual exaltation under the inspiring leadership of conductor Corinna Niemeyer.
- The Stage
- 30 September 2024