Guest Conductor
Over a five-month period in 2005, Norwegian conductor Arild Remmereit made five dramatic debuts with the Pittsburgh Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Milan's Filarmonica della Scala, Munich Philharmonic and the Vienna Symphony, quickly establishing himself as a major talent on the international scene. The New York Times wrote of his Pittsburgh debut, "He came, he conducted, he conquered ... sensational." Mr. Remmereit was immediately re-engaged in Pittsburgh, Vienna, Milan, and Baltimore and since has led numerous other prominent orchestras, including the National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa), England's Hallé Orchestra, the Detroit, Dallas, and Seattle symphonies, and the Seoul Philharmonic.
During the 2009-10 season Mr. Remmereit made his debut with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, L'Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, and the Lahti Symphony Orchestra; returned to Rochester (where he first appeared last season to widespread acclaim), New Jersey, Seattle and Dublin's RTE National Symphony; and conducted Le nozze di Figaro at the Teatro Comunale di Firenze.
Mr. Remmereit has also appeared with the Houston Symphony, the Oslo Philharmonic, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Mozarteum Orchestra in Salzburg, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. In 2005 he made his debut at the storied Teatro alla Scala, conducting Tchaikovsky's opera Cherevicki and, more recently, led Florence's Orchestra del Maggio Musicale in a performance of three Beethoven symphonies in 2008. In Asia - in addition to the Seoul Philharmonic - he has conducted the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Malaysian Philharmonic and the KBS Symphony, also in Seoul.
Born in Norway, Mr. Remmereit studied piano, voice, and composition at the Norwegian Conservatory of Music in Oslo, graduating in 1986. In 1992 he earned a degree from the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna under the direction of Karl Oesterreicher. He has also studied with Leonard Bernstein and served as an assistant to Myung-Whun Chung in Oslo and Paris and to Mariss Jansons in Vienna.