Arvo Volmer :: Dirigent/Conductor

<body bgcolor="#ffffff"> <p>Arvo Volmer took up his appointment as Music Director of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Australia in January 2004.</p> <p>In August 2004 Mr. Volmer also started as the Artistic Director and Chief conductor of the Estonian National Opera.</p> <p>He was Music Director of the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra from 1993 - 2001 and has been Music Director of the Oulu Symphony Orchestra since 1994 his long tenure coming to an end in spring 2005.</p> <p>Arvo Volmer`s success at the international Nikolai-Malko-Competition in Copenhagen 1989 launched an international career that has seen him regulary conduct the leading orchestras in Scandinavia, including the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Helsinki and Copenhagen Orchestras, the Malmô, Helsingborg and Gothenburg National Symphony Orchestras and the Stockholm`s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also conducted orchestras in UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands (as principal guest conductor of the Noord Nederlands Orkest), Portugal, Russia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Iceland, Israel and Switzerland.</p> <p>The last seasons included concerts with the Orchestre National de Paris, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Russian Philharmonic Orchestras of Moscow and St. Petersburg, the Philharmonic Orchestras of Dortmund, Stuttgart, Nürnberg, Koblenz, Kiel, Münster, Halle, Jena and Rostock as well as the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the West Australian Orchestra (Perth), the Tasmanien Symphony Orchestra, the Queensland Orchestra (Brisbane) and the Sydney Philharmonia Choir.</p> <p>Arvo Volmer is also active as a guest conductor of opera, working frequently with the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow since 2004 (Tosca, Un Ballo in Maschera, Nutcracker), the Finnish National Opera, the Norwegian Opera in Oslo and the Malmô Music Theatre, Sweden.</p> <p>He has recorded extensively, including the complete symphonies of the Estonian composer Eduard Tubin and the complete orchestral works of Leevi Madetoja.</p> <p>Arvo Volmer made his debut with the Estonial National Opera in 1985 while still a student at the Estonian Academy of Music. In 1989, during his later studies at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, he became Associate conductor of the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra.</p> <p>=========================================================================================</p> <p>If you read this text on your screen, your browser does not interpret frames. Please change the options of your browser and - if neccessary - update your software.</p> <p>The content of this site you can also see in this <a href="volmer_arvo_cv_en.pdf" target="_blank">pdf-file (51 kbyte)</a>.</p> </body>