Christoph Stoecker – RCCR Artists

Christoph Stöcker

Conductor

Christoph Stöcker was born in Würzburg in 1969. His musical education included piano lessons and later organ, trumpet and double bass. He also studied church music and sang as a tenor in vocal ensembles such as the Stuttgart Chamber Choir (cond. Frieder Bernius), as well as the RIAS Chamber Choir in Berlin. From 1992 he studied orchestral conducting at the University of Music in Würzburg. His repertoire includes works of Bach, Mozart operas, as well as Wagner’s “Ring of the Nibelung“. He has also conducted various operas, operettas and musicals, as well as his own production of “Giuglio Cesare” by G.F. Handel.

Since 2002, after he worked in the Hamburg State Opera as a solo répétiteur, he has gained experience and recognition as stage music conductor. Since 2006 he works regularly at the Bayreuth Festival, and has assisted Christian Thielemann, Axel Kober, Hartmuth Haenchen and Valery Gergiev there.
In October of 2019 he conducted “Parsifal” opera in Vladivostok in the production of the Mariinsky Theatre, St.Petersburg, as well as the production of “Tannhäuser” in St.Petersburg.

RCCR Artists performs the general management for Christoph Stöcker.

Christoph Stöcker

Conductor

Christoph Stöcker was born in Würzburg in 1969. His musical education included piano lessons and later organ, trumpet and double bass. He also studied church music and sang as a tenor in vocal ensembles such as the Stuttgart Chamber Choir (cond. Frieder Bernius), as well as the RIAS Chamber Choir in Berlin. From 1992 he studied orchestral conducting at the University of Music in Würzburg. His repertoire includes works of Bach, Mozart operas, as well as Wagner’s “Ring of the Nibelung“. He has also conducted various operas, operettas and musicals, as well as his own production of “Giuglio Cesare” by G.F. Handel.

Since 2002, after he worked in the Hamburg State Opera as a solo répétiteur, he has gained experience and recognition as stage music conductor. Since 2006 he works regularly at the Bayreuth Festival, and has assisted Christian Thielemann, Axel Kober, Hartmuth Haenchen and Valery Gergiev there.
In October of 2019 he conducted “Parsifal” opera in Vladivostok in the production of the Mariinsky Theatre, St.Petersburg, as well as the production of “Tannhäuser” in St.Petersburg.

RCCR Artists performs the general management for Christoph Stöcker.

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Christoph Stöcker is a well-known Wagner specialist with a broad education and invaluable experience, proven by his long-lasting collaboration with famous Bayreuth Festival.

Christoph Stöcker was born in Würzburg in 1969. His musical education began early, through piano lessons and later organ, trumpet and double bass. After school graduation, he studied church music at various institutes in southern Germany. During this time, he sang as a tenor in vocal ensembles such as the Stuttgart Chamber Choir (cond. Frieder Bernius), as well as the RIAS Chamber Choir in Berlin. From 1992 he studied orchestral conducting at the Hochschule für Musik in Würzburg with Prof. Wich and his successor, Prof. Förster. During this time, he was also assistant to KMD Christian Kabitz at the St. Johannis Church in Würzburg, where he performed Handel’s “Messiah” with the local Bach Choir and Bach Orchestra, among other works. As assistant to Bernhard Klebel (oboist in the Concentus Musicus), he rehearsed a production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” at the Goethe Theater in Bad Lauchstädt, which he later conducted himself and got an enthusiastic response. From 1995 he worked as a solo répétiteur at the Meckl. Staatstheater Schwerin. In 1998 he moved to Münster, to the Städtische Bühnen, as solo répétiteur with conducting duties and assistant to the GMD (Will Humburg). There he rehearsed Wagner’s “Ring des Nibelungen” for the first time, which was performed later with a great success. He also assisted Will Humburg in Italy at the Fonadzione Arena di Verona, the Teatro dell’ Opera Roma, and the Teatro Massimo Palermo.

Mr. Stöcker has conducted various operas, operettas and musicals, as well as his own production of “Giuglio Cesare” by G.F. Handel. In 2002, he moved to the Hamburg State Opera as a solo répétiteur, where he gained important experience as a stage music conductor in addition to numerous rehearsals and assistantships. With a production of various secular cantatas by J.S.Bach (“A Secular Banquet“), he was entrusted with his own rehearsal. At the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, where he had a teaching assignment for part study at that time, he conducted the operas “Stallerhof” by Gerd Kühr, as well as “die Gespenstersonate” by Aribert Reimann. From 2004 – 2006 he conducted the “Harvestehuder Studentenorchester” and performed large orchestral symphonies in various concerts in the Musikhalle (“Laisz-Halle”) which was worn well with the public.

In 2009 he took over the musical direction of the international opera studio of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, where he has been permanently engaged ever since. From 2014, his contractual relationship at the DOR changed to an appointment as Kapellmeister and Korrepetitor. Since then, he has conducted works such as “Don Giovanni“, “The Magic Flute“, “Il Barbiere die Siviglia“, “Hansel and Gretel“, as well as numerous children’s operas and concerts.

Since 2006 Mr. Stöcker has worked regularly at the Bayreuth Festival. He assisted Christian Thielemann, Axel Kober, Hartmuth Haenchen and Valery Gergiev there. In October 2019 at the invitation of Maestro Gergiev he successfully conducted the Mariinsky theatre production of R. Wagner’s “Parsifal” on the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky theatre (Vladivostok) and repeatedly conducted the production of “Tannhäuser” in the Mariinsky theatre (St. Petersburg).

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