Jean-Christophe Spinosi conducts Christmas pieces

A modern, baroque and deeply humanistic musician, Jean Christophe Spinosi has enjoyed a brilliant international career.

As director of his Ensemble Matheus, he has performed regularly at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the Theater an der Wien, the Salzburg Festival, the Liceu in Barcelona, the Berlin State Opera, etc., and has launched numerous special projects combining the Baroque repertoire with contemporary music and street performers.

The world of symphony and opera quickly opened its doors to him and recognised his bold reinterpretations. He is a regular guest of the greatest international orchestras, such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris, the Rundfunkorchester Berlin, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Vienna Radio Orchestra, the Spanish National Orchestra, the Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Moscow National Chamber Orchestra, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, the New Japan Philharmonic of Tokyo, and the Osaka Philharmonic. … with whom he performs in renowned concert halls, from the Berlin Philharmonic to Carnegie Hall in New York, the Palais Garnier in Paris, Suntory Hall in Tokyo and the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow.

Spinosi has built up an impressive discography with the Ensemble Matheus on the Naïve label, including four previously unreleased operas by Vivaldi (La verità in cimento, Orlando Furioso, La Griselda and La fida ninfa) as well as Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater and Nisi Dominus with Philippe Jaroussky and Marie-Nicole Lemieux. He has recorded an album entitled Heroes with Jaroussky for EMI-Virgin Classics and an album entitled Visions with Cecilia Bartoli for Decca Classics. His recordings are hugely popular and have won numerous awards both in France and abroad.

Jean Christophe Spinosi’s artistic collaborations include soloists such as Cecilia Bartoli, Philippe Jaroussky, Janine Jansen, Maxim Vengerov, Maria João Pires, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Natalie Dessay and Jakub Józef Orliński.

Spinosi has conducted most of Rossini’s operas, including new productions of Le Comte Ory at the Theater an der Wien. He has a keen sense for programming works from the French repertoire, including the operas of Bizet and the symphonic works of Ravel and Debussy.

Play – communicate – inspire. Rudolf Döbler pursues these goals as a musician, lecturer, presenter and music educator.

Rudolf Döbler was born in Achern (Ortenau) in 1966. He studied with William Bennett and John Wright at the music academies in Freiburg and Karlsruhe. He also attended master classes with Alain Marion, Michel Debost, James Galway, André Jaunet, Geoffrey Gilbert and Robert Dick. His first engagements took him to the philharmonic orchestras in Dessau and Hagen as principal flute.

Since 1993 he has been deputy principal flute with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB). Parallel to his orchestral activities, he was a member of the ensemble musikFabrik NRW, one of the leading German ensembles for contemporary music, from 1995 to 1997. He is a member of the “14 Berliner Flötisten” and the ensemble 7211.

Together with the Dutch flautist Robert Pot, Rudolf Döbler has been teaching advanced amateurs and professionals in master classes since 2002. He has been artistic director of the QUERWIND Flute Days Staufen since 2009.

Rudolf Döbler has been passionate about inspiring people for music ever since he has been on stage. His carefully chosen presentations of his own chamber concerts, his experience as a children’s concert presenter and his commitment as a school representative of the RSB are evidence of this. Since 2005, he has been coordinating, organizing and designing workshops and rehearsal visits for Berlin schools and kindergartens