Steven Sloane was born in Los Angeles in 1958,
and studied viola, musicology and conducting at the University of California,
Los Angeles (UCLA).
He continued his conducting studies with Eugene Ormandy, Franco Ferrara
and Gary Bertini. After settling in Israel in 1981, Steven
Sloane conducted all the leading Israeli orchestras, including the Israel
Philharmonic Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Haifa
Symphony, and the Israel Sinfonietta.
He was also Orchestral and Choral Director of the Israel Conservatory of Music
and Music Director of both the Tel Aviv Philharmonic Choir and the Tel Aviv
Vocal Festival.
From 1985 to 1992 he was Principal Resident Conductor of the Frankfurt Opera,
where he conducted numerous productions, including tours to Leipzig in 1990
(Weill's "Mahagonny") and to Israel (Britten's "Midsummer Nights Dream")
in 1991. He served as Music Director of the Long Beach Opera from 1992
to 1994, leading productions of Britten's "The Rape of Lucretia", Verdi's
"Simone Boccanegra" and "Falstaff", Moussorgsky's "Boris Godunov",
and Monteverdi's "Orfeo".
He has been a regular guest conductor both with the New York City Opera,
where he conducted Puccini's "Turandot" and "Tosca", and a "Live
from Lincoln Center" national television broadcast of Mascagni's "Cavalleria
Rusticana" and Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci".
With the New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, he has led productions of Rossini's
"The Barber of Seville" and Janacek's "Jenufa".
Recent operatic engagements have included Bizet's "Carmen" with the Seattle
Opera, "Die Zauberfloete" with Wolf Trap Opera, "Le Nozze di Figaro"
with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, "Fidelio" In Bonn, Gluck's "lphigenie
en Tauride" with the Welsh National Opera, Weill's "Aufstieg und Fall
der Stadt Mahagonny" in Lausanne, Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" at Opera
North in Leeds, "Macbeth" at the Stuttgart Opera, and Berg's "Wozzeck" and
Janacek's "Jenufa" for the Spoleto Festival, USA.
In 1998 Steven Sloane made his Royal Opera House Covent Garden
debut with a new production of "Le Nozze di Figaro" and opened the Hong
Kong Festival with Strauss's "Salome".
Steven Sloane's recent orchestral engagements
include the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony orchestras of Utah,
New Mexico and Edmonton, the Beethovenhalle Orchestra Bonn, the orchestra of
the Komische Oper Berlin, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, the Stuttgart Chamber
Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Prague Chamber Orchestra, the
Orchestra of the Teatro San Carlo (Naples) the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
and the Philharmonia Orchestra - London, among others.
As Artistic Director of the Bochum Symphony Orchestra
since 1994, Steven Sloane has extended the repertory of the Bochum
Symphony Orchestra, particularly by innovative, thematically oriented projects
such as '1945' (commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II),
'Monteverdi meets Maderna', 'Jean Cocteau and his Paris', 'Osud' (works of Janáek
and Schubert), 'Trans-Atlantik', 'Assimilation; Jewish Identity in Music' and
'Hector loves Harriet' (works of Hector Berlioz). The orchestra has received
numerous invitations for guest and festival performances at home and abroad,
performing in Israel in 1995 and in the United States in 1997.
In addition, in 1998 Steven Sloane was appointed Music Director
for Opera and Orchestra, Spoleto Festival USA and in 1999 Music
Director of Opera North and the English Northern Philharmonia
in Leeds, Great Britain. During his first season with the Opera North Steven
Sloane conducted successfully new productions of Janácek’s
"Katja Kabánova", Brittens’s "Midsummer Night’s
Dream" and Verdi’s "Falstaff". Both, Opera North and the
Bochum Symphony Orchestra co-producted Wagner‘s "Tristan und Isolde"
in 2001. Most recently, in 2002, Steven Sloane was appointed the new Musical
Director of the American Composers Orchestra, Carnegie Hall,
New York.
Mr. Steven Sloane is represented by Mr.Uri Zur***
