update 03/06

 

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       VELLO PÄHN, conductor  

Estonain-born conductor Vello Pähn graduated from Tallinn Conservatory in 1981 and continued his studies at the St. Petersburg Music Conservatory from 1981-1986. Between 1982 and 1994, Vello Pähn was engaged at the Estonian State Theatre and conducted many opera productions including Carmen, Madame Butterfly, La Traviata, Hovanštšina, L'Elisir d'amore, Duenja, Eugene Onegin and Le Nozze di Figaro.

He has worked with the legendary dancer Rudolf Nourejev and has subsequently been invited to conduct ballet productions at many of the world's leading theatres and ballet companies: since 1992 Mr. Pähn has worked frequently with the Hamburg Ballet conducting John Neumeier’s productions of Cinderella, Le Sacre, Mahler's Fifth Symphony, Othello, Swan Lake and Kameliendame and since 1988 he has also been a regular guest at the Paris National Opera.

In the summer of 1996 Mr. Pähn made his debut at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in Finland with The Flying Dutchman (cast including Salminen, Meyer-Topsoe, Kaludow amongst others) and went on tour with the same production to the Peralada and Santander festivals in Spain. In 1999 and 2000 Vello Pähn returned to Savonlinna conducting Gounod's Faust. During the following season he conducted Tschaikowsky's Swan Lake and Nutcracker at the Dresden Semper Oper as well as Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet at the Gothenburg Opera. Vello Pähn's started the 2002/03 season with the War Requiem by Benjamin Britten and Verdi's La Traviata in Tallinn. He also made his debut at the Berlin State Opera with Nutcracker and Swan Lake and  at the La Scala in Milan presenting an all Ravel program.

Recent engagements include a new Maurice Bejart production at the Paris Opéra National, a tour to Japan with the Paris Ballet's La Bayadere, performances in St. Petersburg with the Hamburg Ballet as well as a production based on Sergei Prokofiev's Ivan le Terrible in Paris and a tour with the Savonlinna Festival Flying Dutchman at Hedeland Festival in Denmark

His calendar for the coming seasons is filled with performances in Hamburg, Berlin, Paris and Milan. In spring 2006 he will conduct Puccini’s Madama Butterfly and Donizetti’s Elisir d’Amore at the Berlin State Opera  and make his debut at the Vienna State Opera with Eugen Onegin ballet. He will also work for the first time at the Stuttgart State Theatre in a ballet on music by Edgar Varèse. Following this, he will return to Paris, Vienna and Dresden and tour in Australia with the Paris Opera Ballet.

 

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