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, Ensemble Contrechamps and the Tapiola Sinfonietta (of which he has been Artist in Associaton since the 2007/08 season) recent seasons have seen him perform with, amongst others, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Sinfonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, and the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra. In the 2009/10 season guest engagements include the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the NDR Sinfonieorchester, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and the Munich Biennale.
In the opera world, 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.
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