Stefan Asbury

A regular guest with many of the leading orchestras worldwide, Stefan Asbury is renowned for his innovative programming and passionate advocacy of new music. Aside from his ongoing relationships with the Basel Sinfonietta and the Tapiola Sinfonietta (of which he has been Artist in Association since the 2007/08 season) recent seasons have seen him perform with, amongst others, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Sinfonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Dresdner Philahrmonie and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. In the 2010/11 season guest engagements include the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta.

Stefan conducted John Adams’ A Flowering Tree for the 2009 Perth International Arts Festival and other recent opera productions include Wolfgang Rihm’s Jakob Lenz for the 2008 Wiener Festwochen, a concert version of Britten’s Owen Wingrave with Tapiola Sinfonietta, the world premiere of Van Vlijmen's Thyeste at Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie and Staud's Berenice at Munich Biennale. He will conduct A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Karlsruhe in December 2010.