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The Ulster Orchestra has introduced that German-Colombian conductor and pianist Anna Handler will likely be its new chief conductor. Handler will be a part of the Orchestra from September 2026, initially on a three-year contract, in time for the Orchestra’s sixtieth anniversary season.
In 2019/20 the Ulster Orchestra appointed Daniele Rustioni as its chief conductor and in 2022/23, marking the energy of the connection, he was appointed the Orchestra’s music director. Rustioni held that place till Could 2024, when he grew to become music director Laureate, and Anna Handler will succeed him, taking over the place of chief conductor in September 2026.
Final month, Handler her Boston Symphony Orchestra subscription sequence debut at quick discover, with violinist Joshua Bell. Handler was Gustavo Dudamel Fellow on the Los Angeles Philharmonic for the 23/24 season and is presently Assistant Conductor on the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She additionally started her tenure as Kapellmeister of Deutsche Oper Berlin in September 2025 and she or he is scheduled to conduct eleven operas throughout her first season.
Handler grew up in Munich and initially studied piano and conducting on the College of Music and Performing Arts Munich earlier than persevering with her research on the Franz Liszt College of Music Weimar, the Accademia Pianistica Internazionale di Imola and the Folkwang College of the Arts. She accomplished her grasp’s diploma in conducting on the Juilliard Faculty in New York in Could 2023. At Juilliard, she was the primary conductor ever to obtain the celebrated Kovner Fellowship.
Anna Handler’s first live performance as chief conductor of the Ulster Orchestra would be the opening live performance of the Orchestra’s sixtieth anniversary Season, within the Ulster Corridor on Friday 25 September 2026.
Full particulars from the Orchestra’s web site.
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