Catherine Larsen-Maguire

Catherine Larsen-Maguire has shared the concert platform with internationally acclaimed singers and soloists; orchestras she has conducted include the Bremen, Magdeburg, Augsburg and Nuremburg Philharmonic Orchestras, the orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin, the Bochum Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin, the Belgrade Philharmonic, the Slovenian Radio Orchestra, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Resonanz, Ensemble Ascolta and Ensemble United Berlin.

Placing great emphasis on working with young professionals, Larsen-Maguire is very much in demand as a conductor for youth orchestras and in music colleges all round 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 was a faculty member 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 and 2019.

Recent highlights include concerts with the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, the orchestra of the Colburn Conservatory in Los Angeles, the Taoxichuan Chamber Orchestra in China, OFUNAM in Mexico City and in the Gewandhaus Hall in Leipzig with the Amicus Orchestra Glasgow.

The season 2019/20 and beyond will see Catherine conduct world premieres at the Ruhrtriennale in Germany and the Bridge Strings Festival in Glasgow, and make her debut with OSUSP in Sao Paulo, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta de Cámara de Chile and the Young Israel Philharmonic. She will also return to Granada, China, several orchestras in Mexico, the Slovenian Radio Orchestra, and to summer festivals in the USA.

Catherine Larsen-Maguire 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. She won the top prize in the 1996 Prague Spring Bassoon Competition and has played as guest principal bassoonist in many of the major orchestras in Germany and England. 

• Adams
  Harmonielehre
  Chamber Symphony
• Ali-Sade
  Dilogie II
• Arnold
  Scottish Dances
• Arutjunian
  Trumpet Concerto
• Bach
  Double concerto for two violins
  Double concerto for oboe and violin
  Keyboard concerto in D minor
  Brandenburg concerto No. 2
  Orchestral Suite No. 1
  Orchestral Suite No. 3
  Fugue from “Das Musikalische Opfer” (arr. Webern)
• Bailey.
  Piano concerto Empty Theater (first performance)
• Barber
  Violin Concerto
  Adagio for strings
• Bartók
  Concerto for orchestra
  Viola concerto
  Romanian Dances
• Bauckholt
  Treibstoff
• Bax
  Tintagel
• Beethoven.
  Symphony No. 1
  Symphony No. 2
  Symphony No. 3
  Symphony No. 5
  Symphony No. 6
  Symphony No. 8
  Piano concerto No. 1
  Piano concerto No. 3
  Piano concerto No. 5
  Egmont overture
  Coriolan overture
  King Stephen overture
• Benjamin
  At First Light
• Berio
  Folk Songs
• Berlioz
  Les Nuits d’Été
• Bernstein
  Divertimento for Orchestra
  Candide overture
• Billone
  Ebe und anders
• Bizet
  Carmen
• Blacher
  Paganini Variations
  Concertante Musik
• Brahms
  Symphony No. 1
  Symphony No. 3
  Serenade No. 1
  Haydn Variations
  Piano concerto No. 2
  Double concerto
  Tragic Overture
• Britten
  Violin Concerto
  Temporal Variations
• Bruch
  Violin concerto
  Concerto for clarinet and viola
  Scottish Fantasy
• Bruckner
  Overture in G minor
• Chabrier
  Suite pastorale
• Cimarosa
  Concerto for two flutes
• Copland
  Appalachian Spring
  Clarinet Concerto
• Dallapiccola
  Due Liriche di Anacreonte
• Dean.
  Testament
• Debussy
  La Mer
  Three Preludes (arr. Matthews)
• Dvorák
  Symphony No. 6
  Symphony No. 7
  Symphony No. 9
  Cello concerto
  The Water Sprite
  Czech Suite
  Klid
  Slavonic Dances 4 & 8
  Serenade for strings
  Serenade for winds
• Elgar
  Enigma Variations
  Pomp and Circumstance 1 & 4
  Serenade for strings
• Farrenc.
  Symphony No. 3
• 
  Requiem
  Élégie for Cello
• Franck
  Symphony in D minor
• Françaix
  Bassoon concerto
• Gade
  Nachklänge an Ossian
• Galindo
  Oberture Mexicana No. 2
• Glanert
  Vier Ernste Gesänge
• Glazunov
  Serenade for strings
• Glinka
  Ruslan and Ludmilla overture
  Summer Night in Madrid
• Globokar
  Kaleidoskop im Nebel
• Grieg
  Norwegian Dances
  Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
  Holberg Suite
• Grime
  Virga
  A Cold Spring
• Guarnieri
  Flor de Tremembé
• Handel
  Coronation anthems
  Harp concerto
• Haydn
  Symphony No. 88
  Symphony No. 94
  Symphony No. 103
  Symphony No. 104
  Oboe concerto
  L’isola disabitata overture
• Higdon
  River sings a song to trees
• Hindemith
  Wie es wär’, wenn’s anders wär’
• Holst
  “The Perfect Fool” ballet music
  St. Paul’s Suite
• Ibert
  Divertissement
• Ives
  Symphony No. 2
• Jolivet
  Bassoon concerto
• Kampe
  Gefährliche Operette (first performance)
• Kapp
  Die Letzte Beichte
• Knussen
  Ophelia Dances
• Ligeti
  Aventures
  Nouvelles aventures
  Concert romanesc
• Liszt
  Mazeppa
  Piano Concerto No. 1
• Macmillan
  Oboe Concerto
• Mahler
  Symphony No. 1
  Symphony No. 4
  Symphony No. 5
  Das Lied von der Erde (arr. Schönberg/Riehn)
  4 Lieder from “Des Knaben Wunderhorn”
• Mamlok
  Grasshoppers
• Marcello
  Oboe Concerto
• Martinu
  Oboe Concerto
• Matthews
  Hidden Variables
• Maxwell Davies
  An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise
  Five Klee Pictures
  Miss Donnithorne’s Maggot
• Mendelssohn, Fanny
  Overture in C
• Mendelssohn, Felix
  Symphony No. 3
  Symphony No. 4
  String Symphony No. 1
  String Symphony No. 10
  Violin Concerto
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  The Hebrides overture
• Milhaud
  Suite Provencale
  La Création du Monde
• Mozart
  Don Giovanni
  Symphony No. 31
  Symphony No. 35
  Symphony No. 36
  Symphony No. 39
  Symphony No. 40
  Symphony No. 41
  Horn concerto No. 4
  Violin concerto No. 1
  Violin concerto No. 5
  Flute Concerto
  Flute and harp Concerto
  Oboe Concerto
  Bassoon Concerto
  Sinfonia concertante for winds
  Marriage of Figaro overture
  Magic Flute overture
  Adagio and Fugue for strings
  Gran Partita
• Mundry
  Das Rohe und das Geformte III
• Mussorgsky
  Pictures at an Exhibition
• Naske
  Die Rote Zora (Children’s opera)
• Nicolaou
  Réflexions
  Blueshift
• Nono
  Canti per 13
• Orff
  Carmina Burana
• Piazzola
  Estaciones porteñas
• Poulenc
  Concert champêtre
• Prokofiev
  Symphony No. 1 (Classical)
  Piano concerto No. 3
  Excerpts from “Romeo and Juliet”
• Pousseur
  Quintette à la Mémoire d’Anton Webern
• Puccini
  La Bohème
• Purcell
  Chaconne (arr. Britten)
• Rachmaninov
  Symphony No. 2
  Symphonic Dances
  Piano concerto No. 1
  Piano concerto No. 2
  Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
• Raff
  Sinfonietta
• Rameau
  Movements from “Les Indes Galantes”
• Rautavaara
  Cantus arcticus
• Ravel
  Daphis and Chloe 2nd suite
  Le Tombeau de Couperin
  Piano concerto
  La Valse
  Alborada del Gracioso
• Rimsky-Korsakov
  Scheherazade
• Rodrigo
  Concierto de Aranjuez
• Saint-Saens
  Cello Concerto
• Santoro
  Symphony No. 12 (first performance)
• Schleiermacher
  Heim.Weh.Nach.Liszt
• Schönberg
  Chamber Symphony No. 1
  Pierrot Lunaire
  Erwartung (version for chamber orchestra)
• Shostakovich
  Symphony No. 5
  Symphony No. 10
• Schubert
  Symphony No. 1
  Symphony No. 2
  Symphony No. 3
  Symphony No. 4
  Symphony No. 5
  Symphony No. 6
  Symphony No. 7 (Unfinished)
  Symphony No. 9
• Schumann, C.
  Piano Concerto
• Schumann, R.
  Symphony No. 1
  Symphony No. 2
  Symphony No. 4
• Scriabin
  Piano Concerto
• Sibelius
  Symphony No. 2
  Finlandia
  Valse triste
• Simpson
  Nur Musik
• Stephenson, A.
  Piccolo Concerto
• Strauss, J.
  Kaiserwalzer
• Strauss, R.
  Oboe concerto
  Horn concerto No. 1
  Four Last Songs
  Suite Op. 4
  Serenade Op. 7
  Sonatine No. 1
• Stravinsky
  The Firebird Suite (1919)
  Petruschka (1911)
  The Soldier’s Tale
• Tarkmann
  Der Mistkäfer
• Trujillo
  Travesiá (first performance)
• Tschaikowsky
  Symphony No. 2
  Symphony No. 4
  Symphony No. 5
  Piano concerto No. 1
  Romeo and Juliet overture
  Capriccio Italien
  Rococo Variations
  Marche Slave
• Vaughan Williams
  Oboe concerto
  Tuba concerto
  The Lark Ascending
  Flos Campi
  English Folk Song Suite
• Verdi
  The Force of Destiny overture
• Vieuxtemps
  Violin concerto No. 5
• Villa-Lobos
  Choros 7
  Choros 10
  Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4
• Vivaldi
  Gloria
  Bassoon concerto in E minor
• Wagner
  Mastersingers overture
  Siegfried Idyll
• Walton
  Viola Concerto
  Facade
• Warlock
  Capriol Suite
• Weber
  Oberon overture
  Bassoon concerto
  Concertino
• Webern
  Konzert Op. 24
• Weidner
  But a beautiful ballroom soul (first performance)
• Weill
  Little Threepenny Music
  Violin Concerto
• Weiss
  Chamber symphony
• Yun
  Loyang
  Pièce concertante
  Chamber concerto No. 2

Artist’s website
https://larsen-maguire.com/english/