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22nd June 2025

Season 2024-25

Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin
(New production of Don Giovanni)
Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse
Brandon Hill Chamber Orchestra
Ensemble Ascolta
London Symphony Orchestra (schools concerts)
Mitteldeutsche Kammerphilharmonie Schönebeck
Bergische Symphoniker
Underground Youth Orchestra, Athens
Chamber ensemble, Komische Oper Berlin
Boreo Fest, Chihuahua, Mexico
Orquesta de Extremadura
Orchestre Victor Hugo Besançon
Hofer Symphoniker
Camerata Castilla-La Mancha
OFUNAM Mexico City
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (Konzert für alle)
Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia
National Youth Orchestra of Scotland Development Orchestra
Orchestre de Chambre de Paris
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz
Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa, Mexico
Orquesta de Córdoba
Deutsches Sinfonieorchester Berlin (Symphonic Mob)
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Rheinische Philharmonie Koblenz
National Youth Orchestra of Scotland at the Young Euro Classic Festival Berlin

Next concerts

 

5th and 6th June 2025, 8pm

Gran Teatro de Córdoba
Britten: Les Illuminations
– Soloist: Natalia Labourdette, soprano
Mozart: Symphony No. 31 (“Paris”)
R. Strauss: Suite from “Le bourgeois gentilhomme”
Orquesta de Córdoba

 

7th June 2025, 8pm

Palacio de Congresos, Cádiz
Britten: Les Illuminations
– Soloist: Natalia Labourdette, soprano
Mozart: Symphony No. 31 (“Paris”)
R. Strauss: Suite from “Le bourgeois gentilhomme”
Orquesta de Córdoba

 

14th June 2025, 3.30pm

Mall of Berlin
Elgar, Price, Mahler, Puccini, Beethoven
DSO-Berlin Symphonic Mob

 

22nd June 2025, 4.30pm

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Castex: Un tour volé au sablier des Vanités (WP)
Dunn: Lori (WP)
Morgan-Williams: Ildio (WP)
– Soloist: Zubin Kanga, piano and electronics
L’Instant Donné
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Catherine Larsen-Maguire

After ten years as principal bassoonist at the Komische Oper Berlin, Catherine Larsen-Maguire turned her focus to conducting in 2012, and has since then become a sought-after conductor with orchestras in Europe and South America.
In June 2023 she was named as the first Music Director of the National Youth Orchestras of Scotland, a position she will hold for an initial three years.
The 2021-22 season and beyond sees debuts with the London Philharmonic, Royal Northern Sinfonia, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Chambre de Genève, the Orchestre de Chambre Fribourgeois and the Faroese Symphony Orchestra. She will also return to the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin, the Slovenian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife and the OFUNAM in Mexico City, orchestras with which she is developing closer relationships.

Catherine also has a special interest in contemporary music, and has directed the first performances of numerous works, including Alexander Goehr’s most recent orchestral work, “The Master Said”, with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Other ensembles with which Catherine regularly collaborates include Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Ascolta, Klangforum Wien and United Berlin. In September 2021 she made her debut with Ensemble Modern at the Berlin Music Festival, and in April 2022 she conducted a joint project with the Scottish Ensemble, Ensemble Resonanz and the Trondheim Soloists in the Barrowland Ballroom Glasgow.

Placing great emphasis on working with younger musicians, Catherine is very much in demand as a conductor for youth orchestras and in music colleges around the world. As part of the Young Euro Classic Festival, she made her debut in Berlin’s Konzerthaus, returning a year later to conduct a world premiere with the German Youth Ballet; this was followed by a tour of China with the same group. She led the conducting team at the annual Femusc Festival in Brazil for five years, and held a guest professorship in conducting at the University of the Arts, Berlin. She gives regular masterclasses in Germany and abroad and was a jury member for the Besançon Competition for Young Conductors in 2017, 2019 and 2021. Recent and upcoming projects include concerts with the Young Israel Philharmonic and the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland Symphony Orchestra.

Born in Manchester and now based in Berlin, Catherine read music at Cambridge University and studied the bassoon at the Royal Academy of Music in London, with Klaus Thunemann in Hanover, and at the Karajan Academy in Berlin, playing regularly in the Berlin Philharmonic during this time. Important influences on the development of her conducting career were John Carewe, George Hurst and Vladimir Jurowski, whom she assisted on several occasions early in her career.

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