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Eduardo Strausser

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…a real force of nature. His conducting is imbued with charisma, stage presence, and good chemistry with the orchestra… 

Daily Revolution

The charismatic Brazilian conductor, Eduardo Strausser has gained a reputation for his intelligent programming and powerful style on the podium. Highlights of the first part of the 2021/22 season include a new commission, Odyssee for Zurich Opera as well as performances with violinist Augustin Hadelich at the Musikkollegium Winterthur and a delayed debut with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. He will join Collegium Musicum Basel in the Spring as well as making debuts with Kansas City Symphony and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and returning to Venezuela to conduct the El Sistema Orchestra. 

Successes of the season included debuts with Detroit Symphony Orchestra as well as Handel’s Messiah with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Other highlights included concerts with Oulu Symphoniker and a mixed programme of Liszt and Schumann for Dubrovnik Summer Festival. 

Previous European symphonic highlights include engagements with Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Deutsche Sinfonie Orchester Berlin, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tampere Philharmonic and Oslo Philharmonic as well as Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne. Elsewhere he has made debuts in previous seasons in Australia with Queensland Symphony Orchestra, and South America with Orquestra Sinfonica Nacional de Mexico. 

Formerly Resident Conductor at the Teatro Sao Paolo from 2014 – 2016, Eduardo has conducted several operas including Elektra and Carlos Gomes´ Fosca, as well as performances of The Nutcracker with the Balé da Cidade de São Paulo, and a Stefano Poda production of Mahler Symphony No.1. Other highlights include Tosca for Theater Magdeburg which he also conducted for Staastheater Hannover alongside several other productions including; Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Hansel and Gretel and Die Zauberflöte. Elsewhere he has conducted La bohème for Teatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro and Teatro Verdi di Padova.

Besides his studies at the Zurich University of Arts, Eduardo has worked with the visionary composer Karlheinz Stockhausen as part of a two-month course in Kürten, Germany. He has also participated in masterclasses with Bernard Haitink and David Zinman in Switzerland and with Kurt Masur in New York. In 2008Eduardo was selected to take part in the prestigious International Forum for Conductors at the Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt, where he had the chance to work closely with composers György Kurtág and Brian Ferneyhough. He is now based in Berlin.

Eduardo has worked with a number of top soloists, including Isabelle Faust, Richard Galliano, Steven Osborne, Barnabas Kelemen and Sergei Krylov among others. A multi-linguist, Eduardo can speak eight languages fluently including; German, Italian, French, Spanish and Hebrew.

2021/22 season only. 

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…“Everything is subject to the smooth sovereignty of the musical direction of Eduardo Strausser: he emphasizes all the details with the Staatsochester, so that brilliant accuracy goes hand in hand with an exhilarating zest for life. It didn’t take a minute for the audience to stand.”… 

Neue Musikzeitung

September 9, 2023

PUCCINI: TOSCA

 

Grand Opera House Belfast

Belfast, Northern Ireland

September 16, 2023

PUCCINI: TOSCA

 

Grand Opera House Belfast

Belfast, Northern Ireland

October 08, 2023

MENDELSSOHN: Hebrides Overture, Op. 26

MENDELSSOHN: Concerto for Violin in E-Minor, Op. 64

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67

 

Leia Zhu, violin

 

Carlisle, United Kingdom

November 09, 2023

JASSER HAJ YOUSSEF: REMINISCENCE

 

Montpellier, France

November 19, 2023

ARVO PÄRT: Salve Regina

VERDI: Stabat Mater and Te Deum

SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61

 

Kansas City, USA

February 02, 2023

ROSSINI: Overture from La Cenerentola

VILLA-LOBOS: Fantasia for Saxophone

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Golden Cockerel Suite

JOHN WILLIAMS: Escapades

STRAVINSKY: The Firebird Suite (1919)

 

Jess Gillam, saxophone

 

Birmingham, United Kingdom

March 10, 2023

T. FRÖHLICH: Konzert-Ouvertüre in B-Dur

C. NIELSEN: Concerto for Flute

BEETHOVEN: Sinfonie Nr. 2 D-Dur op. 36

 

Ana de la Vega, flute

 

Aarau, Switzerland

September 12, 2023

PUCCINI: TOSCA

 

Grand Opera House Belfast

Belfast, Northern Ireland

September 22, 2023

MOZART: Overture from Don Giovanni

BEETHOVEN: Concerto for Piano No. 5 in E-flat major

PROKOFIEV: Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, Op. 100

 

Marie-Ange Nguci, piano

 

Salt Lake City, USA

October 09, 2023

MENDELSSOHN: Hebrides Overture, Op. 26

MENDELSSOHN: Concerto for Violin in E-Minor, Op. 64

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67

 

Leia Zhu, violin

 

Darlington, United Kingdom

November 17, 2023

ARVO PÄRT: Salve Regina

VERDI: Stabat Mater and Te Deum

SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61

 

Kansas City, USA

January 31, 2023

ROSSINI: Overture from La Cenerentola

VILLA-LOBOS: Fantasia for Saxophone

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Golden Cockerel Suite

JOHN WILLIAMS: Escapades

STRAVINSKY: The Firebird Suite (1919)

 

Jess Gillam, saxophone

 

Birmingham, United Kingdom

March 07, 2023

T. FRÖHLICH: Konzert-Ouvertüre in B-Dur

C. NIELSEN: Concerto for Flute

BEETHOVEN: Sinfonie Nr. 2 D-Dur op. 36

 

Ana de la Vega, flute

 

Baden, Switzerland

March 12, 2023

T. FRÖHLICH: Konzert-Ouvertüre in B-Dur

C. NIELSEN: Concerto for Flute

BEETHOVEN: Sinfonie Nr. 2 D-Dur op. 36

 

Ana de la Vega, flute

 

Villmergen, Switzerland

September 14, 2023

PUCCINI: TOSCA

 

Grand Opera House Belfast

Belfast, Northern Ireland

September 23, 2023

MOZART: Overture from Don Giovanni

BEETHOVEN: Concerto for Piano No. 5 in E-flat major

PROKOFIEV: Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, Op. 100

 

Marie-Ange Nguci, piano

 

Salt Lake City, USA

November 08, 2023

JASSER HAJ YOUSSEF: REMINISCENCE

 

Montpellier, France

November 18, 2023

ARVO PÄRT: Salve Regina

VERDI: Stabat Mater and Te Deum

SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61

 

Kansas City, USA

February 01, 2023

ROSSINI: Overture from La Cenerentola

VILLA-LOBOS: Fantasia for Saxophone

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Golden Cockerel Suite

JOHN WILLIAMS: Escapades

STRAVINSKY: The Firebird Suite (1919)

 

Jess Gillam, saxophone

 

Birmingham, United Kingdom

March 09, 2023

T. FRÖHLICH: Konzert-Ouvertüre in B-Dur

C. NIELSEN: Concerto for Flute

BEETHOVEN: Sinfonie Nr. 2 D-Dur op. 36

 

Ana de la Vega, flute

 

Beinwil am See, Switzerland

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…Strausser had the moment of his life, the best Jupiter Sinfonie in a long time!… 

Clemens Goldberg,

rbb Kultur 

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…”Eduardo Strausser brings youthful fire to the work (G. Verdi’s Otello) alongside vigilant attention to accuracy.”… 

Opera Magazine

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Ed Milner

+44 (0)20 3725 9178

+44 75 8468 3126

ed.milner@harrisonparrott.co.uk

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+44 77 7153 6586

anna.ustynyuk@harrisonparrott.co.uk

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