Anja Bihlmaier
Guest Conductor
Anja Bihlmaier’s strong musical instinct, abundant charisma and natural leadership have propelled her to the forefront of recently established conductors both on the symphonic and operatic stages. In August 2021, she assumed the role of chief conductor of the Residentie Orkest in The Hague alongside her position as principal guest conductor of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra.
Bihlmaier opened the 2021-22 season at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw commencing her tenure as chief conductor of the Residentie Orkest, swiftly followed by opening concerts of the orchestra’s long-anticipated new hall, Amare. Besides regular concerts in Amsterdam and The Hague, she conducts the orchestra at the Bodensee Festival in May and a tour of Germany is planned next season.
During the 2021-22 season, Bihlmaier conducts the BBC Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony, Swedish Radio Symphony, Danish National Symphony, SWR- Stuttgart, Iceland Symphony, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Swedish Chamber and Pacific Symphony orchestras all for the first time, and returns to Gothenburg Symphony, Spanish National and Barcelona Symphony, among others.
Anja Bihlmaier recently conducted the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken, City of Birmingham Symphony, BBC Scottish Symphony and Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestras.
With a passion for opera, Bihlmaier has amassed 15 years of experience from positions at Staatsoper Hannover, Theater Chemnitz and Staatstheater Kassel with productions including Tchaikovsky’s Eugene
Onegin, Bizet’s Carmen, Massenet’s Werther, Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro and Dvořák’s Rusalka. More recently, she conducted Gounod’s Faust with Trondheim Opera, Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Malmö Opera, and she has regularly conducted Volksoper Wien, including productions of Carmen, Die Fledermaus, Marriage of Figaro and Henry Mason’s highly acclaimed new production of The Magic Flute.
Following studies at the Freiburg Conservatory of Music, Anja Bihlmaier won a scholarship to study with Dennis Russell Davies and Jorge Rotter at the Salzburg Mozarteum. She won further scholarships from the Brahms Foundation and was admitted onto the prestigious Deutsche Dirgentenforum, the conducting forum of the German Music Council.
Bihlmaier opened the 2021-22 season at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw commencing her tenure as chief conductor of the Residentie Orkest, swiftly followed by opening concerts of the orchestra’s long-anticipated new hall, Amare. Besides regular concerts in Amsterdam and The Hague, she conducts the orchestra at the Bodensee Festival in May and a tour of Germany is planned next season.
During the 2021-22 season, Bihlmaier conducts the BBC Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony, Swedish Radio Symphony, Danish National Symphony, SWR- Stuttgart, Iceland Symphony, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Swedish Chamber and Pacific Symphony orchestras all for the first time, and returns to Gothenburg Symphony, Spanish National and Barcelona Symphony, among others.
Anja Bihlmaier recently conducted the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken, City of Birmingham Symphony, BBC Scottish Symphony and Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestras.
With a passion for opera, Bihlmaier has amassed 15 years of experience from positions at Staatsoper Hannover, Theater Chemnitz and Staatstheater Kassel with productions including Tchaikovsky’s Eugene
Onegin, Bizet’s Carmen, Massenet’s Werther, Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro and Dvořák’s Rusalka. More recently, she conducted Gounod’s Faust with Trondheim Opera, Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Malmö Opera, and she has regularly conducted Volksoper Wien, including productions of Carmen, Die Fledermaus, Marriage of Figaro and Henry Mason’s highly acclaimed new production of The Magic Flute.
Following studies at the Freiburg Conservatory of Music, Anja Bihlmaier won a scholarship to study with Dennis Russell Davies and Jorge Rotter at the Salzburg Mozarteum. She won further scholarships from the Brahms Foundation and was admitted onto the prestigious Deutsche Dirgentenforum, the conducting forum of the German Music Council.