Artist

DEBUT Lena-Lisa WÜSTENDÖRFER

Conductor

Lena-Lisa Wüstendörfer is the founder and Musical Director of the Swiss Orchestra. She stands for concert programmes that take you off the beaten track and make you want to hear more and discover new compositions. Her doctorate in musicology also predestines her to do pioneering work in the revival or development of forgotten or unknown repertoires.

As a guest conductor she is also in demand internationally. Engagements have taken her to renowned orchestras such as the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, Musikkollegium Winterthur, Filharmonia Pomorska, Camerata Switzerland, Basel Sinfonietta, and Sinfonietta Berne. She is also Musical Director of the Bernese Bach Choir.

Born in Zurich in 1983, Lena-Lisa Wüstendörfer studied violin and conducting as well as musicology and economics in Basel. She furthered her studies with Sylvia Caduff and Sir Roger Norrington, and was assistant conductor to Claudio Abbado.

In addition to her concert activities, this PhD musicologist publishes in the field of musical interpretation and reception history. According to the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), her volume Mahler Interpretation Today (edition text + critique 2015) is one of the most fascinating so far on recent Mahler performance practice.

Lena-Lisa Wüstendörfer is a reguliar guest in various features on radio and TV stations and is an active guest speaker on musicological topics as well as on leadership in an orchestra context.