Catherine Larsen-Maguire

Catherine Larsen-Maguire – conductor

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Following ten years as principal bassoonist at the Komische Oper Berlin, Catherine Larsen-Maguire turned her focus exclusively to conducting, having acquired an extensive knowledge of the repertoire, a superlative musical ear and an in-depth awareness of orchestra psychology; since then she is fast becoming a sought-after conductor with orchestras in Europe as well as South America. The 2021-22 season sees debuts with the London Philharmonic, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Royal Northern Sinfonia in the UK and the Orchestre de chambre de Genève and Orchestre de chambre fribourgeois in Switzerland, as well as returns to the Slovenian Radio Symphony Orchestra Orchestra and Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM in Mexico City, with whom she enjoys longstanding relationships, and the Orquesta Sinfonica de Tenerife following a successful debut there in 2020-21.

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Alongside the standard orchestral canon, Catherine Larsen-Maguire also has a special interest in contemporary music and has directed the first performances of numerous works, including the world premieres of Alexander Goehr’s ‘The Master Said’ and Gordon Kampe’s ‘Gefährliche Operette’, as well as the North American premiere of MacMillan’s Oboe Concerto, with Nigel Shore. Collaborations include Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Resonanz, Ensemble ascolta and ensemble united berlin, while 2021-22 includes her debut with Ensemble Modern, as well as a joint project with Scottish Ensemble, Ensemble Resonanz and the Trondheim Soloists.

Catherine Larsen-Maguire places great emphasis on working with younger musicians and enjoys working with and training youth ensembles around the world; 2021 includes projects with the Young Israel Philharmonic and the Landesjugendensemble Neue Musik Berlin. She was a jury member for the Besançon Competition in 2017 and 2019, 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. She then studied the bassoon at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and at the Karajan Academy in Berlin. Important influences in the development of her conducting skills were John Carewe, George Hurst and Vladimir Jurowski, whom she assisted on several occasions early in her career.

Contact:
Nicolas Papageorgiou (Director)
Aude-Marie Auphan (Director)

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Videos

Anna Clyne: Sound and Fury
Scottish Chamber Orchestra, September 2020

Concert with RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Mar 2020
(Concertos with students from Ljubljana Academy of Music)

Schubert: Symphony No. 2, 1st mvt
Sunflower Festival Chamber Orchestra, Jun 2017

Barber: Adagio for Strings
Sunflower Festival Chamber Orchestra, Jun 2017

Macmillan: Oboe Concerto (N.American premiere)
Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM, Nigel Shore (oboe) Mar 2017

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Repertoire

Catherine Larsen-Maguire – List of conducted works

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
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Requiem
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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

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Links

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

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