Catherine Larsen-Maguire

Catherine Larsen-Maguire has in recent years also conducted orchestras including the London Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Mecklenburgische Statskapelle, Göttinger Symphonieorchester, Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin, Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Colombia, Orquesta de Córdoba, Belgrade Philharmonic, and Orchestre de Chambre Fribourgeois. A musician’s musician, she has successfully collaborated with a diverse array of soloists in recent seasons, including Carolin Widmann, Edgar Moreau, Adam Walker, Sean Shibe, Jean Rondeau, Lucas and Arthur Jussen, Guy Johnston and Sarah Wegener.

Embracing the challenges of contemporary music and fearless about the complexity of a new score, Catherine Larsen-Maguire also works closely with living composers, and has given several world and national premieres; in 2021 she conducted the world premiere of Alexander Goehr’s ‘The Master Said’ with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. The same year, at the Musikfest Berlin, she gave the premiere of Cathy Milliken’s ‘Night Shift’ with Ensemble Modern, and a year later conducted the Scottish Ensemble, Ensemble Resonanz and the Trondheim Soloists in the premiere of Erkki-Sven Tüür’s ‘Deep Dark Shine’. She also conducted the world premiere of Gordon Kampe’s ‘Gefährliche Operette’, the American premiere of James MacMillan’s Oboe Concerto, the Spanish premiere of Joey Roukens’ ‘In Unison’ and the German premiere of Bent Sørensen’s ‘Evening Land’. She has also worked with composers including Brett Dean, Helen Grime, Charlotte Bray, Mica Levi and Michael Zev Gordon, and contemporary ensembles including Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Resonanz, Ensemble Ascolta and the 10/10 Ensemble of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.

With a passion for mentoring the next generation of musicians, Catherine Larsen-Maguire places great emphasis on working with young people, both as conductor and educator. In July 2023, following a highly successful series of concerts which was lauded across the Scottish press, she was appointed the first ever Music Director of the National Youth Orchestras of Scotland for the period 2024-2026. Other Youth orchestras with which she has recently collaborated include the Young Israel Philharmonic, the Orchestra of the Luebeck Hochschule and the Underground Youth Orchestra in Athens; she has given masterclasses in Germany (University of the Arts), Brazil (University of São Paulo, Femusc Festival), Israel (Jerusalem International Conducting Masterclass), Spain (Real Conservatorio Superior de Granada) and Mexico (Queretaro Festival). She was a jury member for the Besançon Competition (2017- 2021), and from 2014-16 held a guest professorship in conducting at the University of the Arts, Berlin

Born in Manchester and now based in Berlin, Catherine Larsen-Maguire read music at Cambridge University, followed by studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Karajan Academy in Berlin. She turned her focus exclusively to conducting in 2012 following a successful career as a bassoonist, which included 10 years as principal at the Komische Oper Berlin.

• 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
• Fauré
  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
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