Kaspar Zehnder (born 27 August 1970 in

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, Canton of Bern) is a Swiss conductor and flutist. He studied classical languages at the Lyceum in Bern and music at the

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. His music teachers included Heidi Indermühle (flute), Ewald Körner (conducting), Agathe Rytz-Jaggi (piano) and Peter Streiff and Arthur Furer ( music theory). He further took conducting master classes with

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, Werner-Andreas Albert and

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. He also studied chamber music and was a member of the Mozart European Academy, where his main mentor was

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. Zehnder gained his first conducting experience with the ''Kammerorchester Neufeld Bern'' and the ''Burgdorfer Kammerorchester''. From 1997 to 2006, he was an associate professor at and conductor of the Orchestra of the Bern Academy of Arts (''Hochschule der Künste Bern''), where he focused on contemporary music. Zehnder was chief conductor of the

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from 2005 to 2008. He currently is the artistic director at the Murten Classics Festival. He is also music director at the Zentrum

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in Bern and the director of the Ensemble Paul Klee. Since 2014, he is the music director of the Symphoniy Orchester Biel Solothurn.

External links

Kaspar Zehnder Official Homepage

Zentrum Paul Klee biography

Central European Music Agency biography

Theater Orchester Biel Solothurn
{{DEFAULTSORT:Zehnder, Kaspar 1970 births Living people People from Bern-Mittelland District Swiss classical flautists Swiss conductors (music) Male conductors (music) 21st-century conductors (music) 21st-century male musicians 21st-century flautists