biography

EN

JOSEPH SIEBER

Joseph Sieber recently won the assistant position at the Basel Sinfonietta and is currently active as a musician, speaker and coach in Europe and both Americas. Trained in Switzerland, England and the USA and now living in Paris, the young conductor has developed a unique profile as a ‘bridge builder for a new audience for classical music’. He received the highest honour for his diploma concert with the BBC Philharmonic and was a Conducting Fellow of the Lucerne Festival Academy and the Cabrillo Festival in California.

He can look back on collaborations with renowned orchestras and has performed with the BBC Philharmonic (UK), the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (CH), the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz (DE), the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra (USA), the Plovdiv State Opera Orchestra (BG), the New Sinfonia (WL) and the Argovia Philharmonic (CH), among others. He has also worked as an assistant conductor with orchestras such as the Orchestre National de France (FR) and the Philharmonia Orchestra (UK) and for conductors such as Susanna Mälkki, Marin Alsop, Cristian Măcelaru and Domingo Hindoyan.

In the field of opera and musical theatre, Joseph was already active as a répétiteur in his youth and later also as a conductor of school productions. He was able to deepen his collaboration with singers as a long-standing member and assistant of the Swiss Youth Choir and the EuroChoir and finally assisted a full production of Strauss‘ “Ariadne auf Naxos” at the RNCM in Manchester.

Joseph was already attracting attention at a young age and in several disciplines. While still a student, for example, he performed both as a piano soloist and shortly afterwards as a conductor at the Lucerne Festival in the KKL concert hall. His artistic initiatives had a pioneering character and resonated beyond Switzerland‘s borders – for example, when the music theatre project ‘Verona 3000’, which he composed and directed, was nominated for the European Music Education Prize, a recording collaboration with rapper Steff la Cheffe topped the charts for weeks and a choreographed Mozart Requiem with the Swiss Youth Choir celebrated success throughout Switzerland.

At the age of 19, he founded the Zentralschweizer Jugendsinfonieorchester (ZJSO), which in the seven years under his direction has developed into one of the most versatile and highly regarded young ensembles in Switzerland, winning several prizes thanks to its innovative programming and surprisingly high standard and performing annually in front of thousands of spectators in Switzerland and abroad.