JOHN LIDFORS
“Music for me is about discovering its story, traveling its journey and engaging the listener in an unexpectedly arresting experience.”
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In September 2024 John Lidfors travels to Germany to work with the RIAS Chamber Choir after having previously won the German Choral Conductor's Prize. Additionally he returns to conduct the annual Kronach Klassik now for the third year in a row.
John Lidfors distinguishes himself as a conductor of penetrative and sensitive musicianship exhibiting an uncommon versatility across the orchestral and vocal spectrum. A prize winner in the Arthur Nikisch International Conducting Competition, finalist of the CSO Sir Georg Solti International Conducting Competition and winner of the 2021 German Choral Conductor's Prize, he has debuted at the Berlin Philharmonie and the Vienna Musikverein concert halls.
Before his appointment to the Bochumer Symphoniker as Assistant Conductor and Director of the Bochum Philharmonic Choir from 2017 to 2019 he founded the Orchester Ventuno in the Nuremberg music scene, winning awards for his contributions to the arts.
As a musician John Lidfors takes a special interest in the works of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler, Rachmaninoff and Pärt. His regard for performance practice across all periods of music and his conviction of the interpreter’s creative role in giving sound to the composer’s work are central to his musicianship.
In the orchestral field John Lidfors has performed with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the San Diego Symphony, the Gstaad Festival Orchestra, the South Denmark Philharmonic, the Bochumer Symphoniker, the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, the Magdeburgische Philharmonie, the Brandenburger Symphoniker and the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart. Aside from the concert stage he has also worked with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Staatstheater Cottbus, and the Colorado Symphony.
Equally proficient in choral music John Lidfors has led performances of choral-orchestral works including Haydn’s Creation, Mozart’s Requiem, Händel’s Messiah, Honegger’s King David, Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms, as well as numerous a cappella works such as Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli. As a fellow of the German Music Council’s Conducting Forum he has worked with the RIAS Chamber Choir, MDR Leipzig Radio Choir, WDR Radio Choir Cologne and the Gaechinger Cantorey of the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart. Additionally, he has performed with the Berlin Radio Choir, ChorWerk Ruhr, the Philharmonic Choir of Berlin, the New Mexico Symphonic Chorus and the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus.
“What especially appeals to me about conducting is the way I can impact the musicians’ playing through my gestures as if I were a potter shaping a vessel of sound.”
Masterclass with Cristian Măcelaru
CHORUS MASTER
Anton Bruckner: Ecce sacerdos magnus
Anton Bruckner: Ave Maria
Anton Bruckner: Psalm 112
Anton Bruckner: Mass No. 1 in D Minor
Akademie für alte Musik Berlin
Łukasz Borowicz, Conductor
Franz Schubert: Overture to Die Zauberharfe
Gioacchino Rossini: Bassoon Concerto
Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Victor König, Bassoon