Geoffrey Moull
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Geoffrey Moull is a professional conductor and pianist.
and Martin Stephani. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in performance from McGill University
and post-graduate degrees in conducting and piano from the Hochschule für Musik Detmold
in Germany.
's "La Calisto
".
With his appointment as Principal Conductor of the Bielefeld Philharmonic Orchestra and Bielefeld Opera
in Germany in 1992, Moull became an integral part of the 'Bielefelder Opernwunder'. While initiating and conducting new productions of works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
, Giuseppe Verdi
, Giacomo Puccini
, Richard Wagner
and Richard Strauss
, Moull was responsible for the rediscovery of important operatic gems such as Robert Schumann
's "Genoveva
", Bohuslav Martinů
's "Julietta
" and Gustav Mahler
's completion of Carl Maria von Weber
's "Die drei Pintos
". He also conducted a number of important works of 20th century composers Kurt Weill
, Franz Schreker
and Ernst Krenek
, and first performances of contemporaries Shulamit Ran
, Nikolai Karetnikov
and Michael Hirsch. He worked closely with stage directors John Dew, Jonathan Eaton and Katja Czellnik. With the Bielefeld Philharmonic Orchestra Moull led notable concert performances of Ludwig von Beethoven and Johannes Brahms
, introducing the Bielefeld concert audience to symphonic works of composers such as Bohuslav Martinů
and Hugo Alfvén
, and designing and conducting numerous family concert programs.
From 2000 to 2009, Geoffrey Moull was Music Director of the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra
. During his tenure, the TBSO saw an era of unprecedented artistic growth and financial stability. The TBSO now performs more than 50 concerts per season and has an annual budget of $1.5 million. As Music Director, Moull was responsible for programming and conducting each of five individual series (Masterworks, Classical Plus, Pops, Cabaret, Family), including complete cycles of the works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Dvorak, Brahms and Tchaikovsky . Each year since 2001, the TBSO has been recorded and broadcast nationally on CBC Radio Two. Those broadcasts included performances of repertoire as diverse as Ludwig van Beethoven
's Symphony No. 7, Robert Schumann
's Violin Concerto with James Ehnes
, Dmitri Shostakovich
's Piano Concerto No. 1 with Marc-André Hamelin
, Franz Schubert
's Symphony No. 6, Igor Stravinsky
's Pulcinella, Samuel Barber
's Cello Concerto with Denise Djokic
and Harry Freedman
's "Manipulating Mario". The Thunder Bay Regional Arts Council presented its Award to Education in May 2003 to Moull and the TBSO for innovative educational and outreach programs ("Community Bridges", "Side-by-Side", "Music in the Classroom" and "Stars of the Future") that attracted thousands of new audience members each year. Each season Moull took the orchestra on a tour of Northwestern Ontario, bringing symphonic music to towns such as Kenora, Dryden, Fort Frances, Sioux Lookout, Red Lake, Marathon, Manitouwadge and Wawa. In 2008, Moull and the TBSO collaborated with the Minnesota Ballet
, performing Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker
". On the occasion of Moull's final concert with the TBSO as Music Director in 2009, the Lake Superior News wrote that "his successful tenure in Thunder Bay is an example of the character traits needed to be a great conductor. For a start he had a vision for the orchestra, one that would make it a source of pride for the city, and one that would see the orchestra achieve excellence. To achieve this he used a collaborative approach with those he had to work with, the Symphony Board, the public and of course the musicians. Geoffrey Moull has put his heart and soul into this orchestra, and the emotions of last Thursday nights masterworks performance can be matched by no review. Bravo Maestro Moull, you have left your mark and whoever should succeed you in this position will have a lot of work to fill your shoes.".
's "Faust
" for CPO with the Bielefeld Opera
. This world-premiere recording attracted international attention and was released to critical acclaim. The Wiener Zeitung called it "a musical triumph. Unbelievable how Geoffrey Moull reveals the fire and verve of Spohr's music" while the Neue Musikzeitung declared it "musically a masterpiece, this is an important edition!".
Moull recorded Theo Loevendie
's opera "Esmeé" for Donemus
with the Bielefeld Opera
in 1998. Loevendie composed the work for the Holland Festival; Moull and the Bielefeld Opera
were the first to perform the opera outside of the Netherlands, and the first to record it.
In 2004, Moull initiated a plan to produce a CD-recording with the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra
. The resulting disc, "Variations on a Memory", features five contemporary compositions (works of John Estacio
, Jeffrey Ryan
, Regent Levasseur, Alexina Louie
and Aris Carastathis) that have played a major role in the successful development of the orchestra and is a legacy from Thunder Bay's designation as Cultural Capital of Canada. In 2005, the CD was awarded an international distribution to radio broadcasters by the SOCAN Foundation and a Juno Award
nomination for Jeffrey Ryan's Pangaea. The Canadian Music Centre
announced that "Variations on a Memory" was their top seller for 2005. Gramophone magazine remarked "with the name Thunder Bay, one might expect boom and blast, even cacophony, but this CD abounds with reflective, descriptive and harmonically centered music. Conductor Geoffrey Moull and the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra introduce five Canadian composers with works primarily drawn from the 1990s, brilliantly orchestrated and vividly evocative"
, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
, the Staatsoper Hannover
, the Meininger Hofkapelle, the CBC Radio Orchestra
, the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire
, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
, Opéra-Théâtre de Metz
, Deutsche Oper am Rhein
, the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg
, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony
, Orchestra London, Symphony Nova Scotia
, the San Remo Symphony, the Springfield Symphony Orchestra
, the Szombathely Symphony and the Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden.
Symphony Orchestra at the University of Münster
. In 1998, he gave master classes in operatic conducting, coaching and singing at the University of Southern California
, and was guest conductor of the McGill Symphony Orchestra in 2000. From 2008 to 2009 Moull was Mentor and Coach of the Opera Program at Wilfrid Laurier University
and in 2010 he was appointed Visiting Professor of the Hochschule für Musik Detmold
. In July 2010 Moull was appointed Associate Professor, Director of Orchestras, at The University of Western Ontario
. His responsibilities include conducting the UWO Symphony Orchestra, the UWO Chamber Orchestra, UWOpera productions and teaching graduate conducting.
, Falk Struckmann
, Anton Kuerti
, James Ehnes
, Marc-André Hamelin
, Johan Botha, Kolja Blacher, Janina Fialkowska
, Matthias Goerne
, Shauna Rolston
, Erika Raum
, Denise Djokic
, Donna Brown, Tracy Dahl, Daniel Lichti, Theodore Baerg, André Laplante
, Maria Kliegel
, Tom Malone
, and John Arpin
.
Education
Geoffrey Moull was born in London, Ontario, Canada and studied conducting with Kirill Kondrashin, Sergiu CelibidacheSergiu Celibidache
- Biography :Celibidache was born in Roman, Romania, and began his studies in music with the piano, after which he studied music, philosophy and mathematics in Bucharest, Romania and then in Paris...
and Martin Stephani. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in performance from McGill University
Schulich School of Music
The Schulich School of Music is one of the constituent faculties of McGill University in Montréal, Canada. The faculty was named after benefactor Seymour Schulich.-History:Music at McGill – The Beginning...
and post-graduate degrees in conducting and piano from the Hochschule für Musik Detmold
Hochschule für Musik Detmold
The University of Music Detmold is one of Germany's leading university-level schools of music, situated in Detmold, Germany.- Academics :...
in Germany.
Career
As Principal Conductor and Coach of the Trier Opera and Symphony Orchestra in Germany from 1986 to 1989, Moull conducted both opera and concert performances and was additionally responsible for the development of music education programs and school concerts. He was Associate Conductor of the Münster Symphony Orchestra and Opera from 1989 to 1992. Opernwelt, the most influential opera magazine in German-speaking countries, presented Moull with their 'Production of the Year' award in 1992 for Francesco CavalliFrancesco Cavalli
Francesco Cavalli was an Italian composer of the early Baroque period. His real name was Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni, but he is better known by that of Cavalli, the name of his patron Federico Cavalli, a Venetian nobleman.-Life:Cavalli was born at Crema, Lombardy...
's "La Calisto
La Calisto
La Calisto is an opera by Francesco Cavalli with a libretto by Giovanni Faustini. The libretto was published in 1651 by Giuliani and Batti. The opera received its first performance on 28 November 1651 at the Teatro San Apollinare, Venice...
".
With his appointment as Principal Conductor of the Bielefeld Philharmonic Orchestra and Bielefeld Opera
Bielefeld Opera
The Bielefeld Opera is the venue of Städtische Bühnen Bielefeld in Bielefeld, Germany. It is a Dreisparten Haus , offering plays, music , and ballet...
in Germany in 1992, Moull became an integral part of the 'Bielefelder Opernwunder'. While initiating and conducting new productions of works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
, Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century...
, Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer whose operas, including La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire...
, Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...
and Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss
Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till...
, Moull was responsible for the rediscovery of important operatic gems such as Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....
's "Genoveva
Genoveva
Genoveva is an opera in four acts by Robert Schumann in the genre of German Romanticism with a libretto by Robert Reinick and the composer. The only opera Schumann ever wrote, it received its first performance on 25 June 1850 at the Stadttheater in Leipzig, with the composer conducting...
", Bohuslav Martinů
Bohuslav Martinu
Bohuslav Martinů was a prolific Czech composer of modern classical music. He was of Czech and Rumanian ancestry. Martinů wrote six symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. Martinů became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic...
's "Julietta
Julietta
Julietta is an opera by Bohuslav Martinů, who also wrote the libretto, which is based on the play Juliette, ou La clé des songes by the French author Georges Neveux. The opera received its first performance at the National Theatre, Prague on 16 March 1938, with Ota Horaková in the title role and...
" and Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...
's completion of Carl Maria von Weber
Carl Maria von Weber
Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school....
's "Die drei Pintos
Die drei Pintos
Die drei Pintos is a comic opera of which Carl Maria von Weber began composing the music, working on a libretto by Theodor Hell...
". He also conducted a number of important works of 20th century composers Kurt Weill
Kurt Weill
Kurt Julian Weill was a German-Jewish composer, active from the 1920s, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht...
, Franz Schreker
Franz Schreker
Franz Schreker was an Austrian composer, conductor, teacher and administrator. Primarily a composer of operas, his style is characterized by aesthetic plurality , timbral experimentation, strategies of extended tonality and...
and Ernst Krenek
Ernst Krenek
Ernst Krenek was an Austrian of Czech origin and, from 1945, American composer. He explored atonality and other modern styles and wrote a number of books, including Music Here and Now , a study of Johannes Ockeghem , and Horizons Circled: Reflections on my Music...
, and first performances of contemporaries Shulamit Ran
Shulamit Ran
Shulamit Ran is an Israeli-American composer. She moved from Israel to New York at 14, as a scholarship student at the Mannes College of Music. Her Symphony won her the Pulitzer Prize...
, Nikolai Karetnikov
Nikolai Karetnikov
Nikolai Nikolayevich Karetnikov , was a Russian composer of the so-called Underground – alternative or nonconformist group in Soviet music.-Biography:...
and Michael Hirsch. He worked closely with stage directors John Dew, Jonathan Eaton and Katja Czellnik. With the Bielefeld Philharmonic Orchestra Moull led notable concert performances of Ludwig von Beethoven and Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...
, introducing the Bielefeld concert audience to symphonic works of composers such as Bohuslav Martinů
Bohuslav Martinu
Bohuslav Martinů was a prolific Czech composer of modern classical music. He was of Czech and Rumanian ancestry. Martinů wrote six symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. Martinů became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic...
and Hugo Alfvén
Hugo Alfvén
was a Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter.- Violinist :Alfvén was born in Stockholm and studied at the Music Conservatory there from 1887 to 1891 with the violin as his main instrument, receiving lessons from Lars Zetterquist. He also took private composition lessons from Johan...
, and designing and conducting numerous family concert programs.
From 2000 to 2009, Geoffrey Moull was Music Director of the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra
Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra
The Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra is a professional orchestra based in the Community Auditorium in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. It was founded on 29 November 1960 as the Lakehead Symphony Orchestra, debuting at the Lakeview High School auditorium...
. During his tenure, the TBSO saw an era of unprecedented artistic growth and financial stability. The TBSO now performs more than 50 concerts per season and has an annual budget of $1.5 million. As Music Director, Moull was responsible for programming and conducting each of five individual series (Masterworks, Classical Plus, Pops, Cabaret, Family), including complete cycles of the works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Dvorak, Brahms and Tchaikovsky . Each year since 2001, the TBSO has been recorded and broadcast nationally on CBC Radio Two. Those broadcasts included performances of repertoire as diverse as Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
's Symphony No. 7, Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....
's Violin Concerto with James Ehnes
James Ehnes
James Ehnes, CM is a Canadian concert violinist.The son of Alan Ehnes, trumpet professor at Brandon University and Barbara Ehnes, former director of the Brandon School of Dance, James Ehnes began his violin studies at the age of four...
, Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....
's Piano Concerto No. 1 with Marc-André Hamelin
Marc-André Hamelin
Marc-André Hamelin, OC, CQ, is a French Canadian virtuoso pianist and composer.Born in Montreal, Quebec, Marc-André Hamelin began his piano studies at the age of five. His father, a pharmacist by trade who was also a pianist, introduced him to the works of Alkan, Godowsky, and Sorabji when he was...
, Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
's Symphony No. 6, Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
's Pulcinella, Samuel Barber
Samuel Barber
Samuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is his most popular composition and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music...
's Cello Concerto with Denise Djokic
Denise Djokic
Denise Djokic is a gifted cellist from Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is the daughter of Lynn Stodola and Philippe Djokic.Cellist Denise Djokic has been praised worldwide for her sincere, powerful interpretations, and her bold command of the instrument. Instantly recognized by her "arrestingly...
and Harry Freedman
Harry Freedman
Harry Freedman , was a Canadian composer, english hornist, and music educator of Polish birth. He wrote a significant amount of symphonic works, including several film scores, and also composed a substantial amount of chamber music...
's "Manipulating Mario". The Thunder Bay Regional Arts Council presented its Award to Education in May 2003 to Moull and the TBSO for innovative educational and outreach programs ("Community Bridges", "Side-by-Side", "Music in the Classroom" and "Stars of the Future") that attracted thousands of new audience members each year. Each season Moull took the orchestra on a tour of Northwestern Ontario, bringing symphonic music to towns such as Kenora, Dryden, Fort Frances, Sioux Lookout, Red Lake, Marathon, Manitouwadge and Wawa. In 2008, Moull and the TBSO collaborated with the Minnesota Ballet
Minnesota Ballet
The Minnesota Ballet is a ballet company and school located in Duluth, Minnesota. Founded in 1965 by Donna Harkins and Jan Gibson as the Duluth Civic Ballet, the company has since expanded into a touring company with fourteen professional artists, who are locally based...
, performing Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto is adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King". It was given its première at the Mariinsky Theatre in St...
". On the occasion of Moull's final concert with the TBSO as Music Director in 2009, the Lake Superior News wrote that "his successful tenure in Thunder Bay is an example of the character traits needed to be a great conductor. For a start he had a vision for the orchestra, one that would make it a source of pride for the city, and one that would see the orchestra achieve excellence. To achieve this he used a collaborative approach with those he had to work with, the Symphony Board, the public and of course the musicians. Geoffrey Moull has put his heart and soul into this orchestra, and the emotions of last Thursday nights masterworks performance can be matched by no review. Bravo Maestro Moull, you have left your mark and whoever should succeed you in this position will have a lot of work to fill your shoes.".
CD Recordings
In 1994 Moull recorded Louis SpohrLouis Spohr
Louis Spohr was a German composer, violinist and conductor. Born Ludewig Spohr, he is usually known by the French form of his name. Described by Dorothy Mayer as "The Forgotten Master", Spohr was once as famous as Beethoven. As a violinist, his virtuoso playing was admired by Queen Victoria...
's "Faust
Faust (Spohr)
Faust is an opera by the German composer Louis Spohr. The libretto, by Josef Karl Bernard, is based on the legend of Faust; it is not influenced by Goethe's Faust, though Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy had been published in 1808. Instead, Carl Bernard's libretto draws mainly on Faust plays...
" for CPO with the Bielefeld Opera
Bielefeld Opera
The Bielefeld Opera is the venue of Städtische Bühnen Bielefeld in Bielefeld, Germany. It is a Dreisparten Haus , offering plays, music , and ballet...
. This world-premiere recording attracted international attention and was released to critical acclaim. The Wiener Zeitung called it "a musical triumph. Unbelievable how Geoffrey Moull reveals the fire and verve of Spohr's music" while the Neue Musikzeitung declared it "musically a masterpiece, this is an important edition!".
Moull recorded Theo Loevendie
Theo Loevendie
Theo Loevendie is a Dutch composer and clarinet player.Loevendie studied composition and clarinet at the Conservatoire of Amsterdam. Initially he concentrated on jazz music. As off 1968 he also wrote concert music, among which operas, concertos and chamber music...
's opera "Esmeé" for Donemus
Donemus
Donemus is the Dutch institute dealing with the documentation of contemporary music composed in the Netherlands....
with the Bielefeld Opera
Bielefeld Opera
The Bielefeld Opera is the venue of Städtische Bühnen Bielefeld in Bielefeld, Germany. It is a Dreisparten Haus , offering plays, music , and ballet...
in 1998. Loevendie composed the work for the Holland Festival; Moull and the Bielefeld Opera
Bielefeld Opera
The Bielefeld Opera is the venue of Städtische Bühnen Bielefeld in Bielefeld, Germany. It is a Dreisparten Haus , offering plays, music , and ballet...
were the first to perform the opera outside of the Netherlands, and the first to record it.
In 2004, Moull initiated a plan to produce a CD-recording with the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra
Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra
The Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra is a professional orchestra based in the Community Auditorium in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. It was founded on 29 November 1960 as the Lakehead Symphony Orchestra, debuting at the Lakeview High School auditorium...
. The resulting disc, "Variations on a Memory", features five contemporary compositions (works of John Estacio
John Estacio
John Estacio is a contemporary Canadian composer.-Life and career:Estacio was born in Newmarket, Ontario. Raised in the farming community of the Holland Marsh, Ontario, Estacio took piano and accordion lessons, and played church organ every Sunday...
, Jeffrey Ryan
Jeffrey Ryan
Jeffrey Ryan is a Canadian composer. His compositional style ranges from opera, art song, and choral music to chamber ensemble and orchestral works. Ryan has been commissioned by the Cleveland Orchestra, the Windsor Symphony, Esprit Orchestra, Tapestry New Opera Works, the Arditti Quartet, and...
, Regent Levasseur, Alexina Louie
Alexina Louie
Alexina Louie, OC, FRSC is a Canadian composer of Chinese descent who has written many pieces for orchestra, as well as pieces for solo piano.-Biography:Alexina Louie was born in Vancouver and received an...
and Aris Carastathis) that have played a major role in the successful development of the orchestra and is a legacy from Thunder Bay's designation as Cultural Capital of Canada. In 2005, the CD was awarded an international distribution to radio broadcasters by the SOCAN Foundation and a Juno Award
Juno Award
The Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music...
nomination for Jeffrey Ryan's Pangaea. The Canadian Music Centre
Canadian Music Centre
The Canadian Music Centre holds Canada's largest collection of Canadian concert music. The CMC exists to promote the works of its Associate Composers in Canada and around the world....
announced that "Variations on a Memory" was their top seller for 2005. Gramophone magazine remarked "with the name Thunder Bay, one might expect boom and blast, even cacophony, but this CD abounds with reflective, descriptive and harmonically centered music. Conductor Geoffrey Moull and the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra introduce five Canadian composers with works primarily drawn from the 1990s, brilliantly orchestrated and vividly evocative"
Guest Conducting
Geoffrey Moull is a frequent guest conductor of orchestras and opera companies in Europe and North America, including the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest of the Netherlands, the Komische Oper BerlinKomische Oper Berlin
The Komische Oper Berlin is an opera company in Berlin, Germany, which specializes in German language productions of opera, operetta and musicals....
, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra is a Canadian orchestra, based in Calgary, Alberta. The orchestra gives the majority of its performances in the Jack Singer Concert Hall of the EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts...
, the Staatsoper Hannover
Staatsoper Hannover
Staatsoper Hannover is an opera house and opera company in Hanover. It is one of the leading opera companies in Germany.During the course of its season from September to June, Staatsoper Hannover mounts productions of a variety of operas from the standard operatic repertoire as well as 20th century...
, the Meininger Hofkapelle, the CBC Radio Orchestra
CBC Radio Orchestra
The CBC Radio Orchestra was a Canadian orchestra based in Vancouver, British Columbia that was operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Until the early 1980s CBC had a number of orchestras located in Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax but due to federal government budget cuts they...
, the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire
Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire
The Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire is a French symphony orchestra based in Angers and Nantes, France. The orchestra receives support from the Regional Council of the Pays de la Loire....
, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
As the professional orchestra of Alberta's creative capital city, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra presents over 85 concerts a year of symphonic music in all genres, from classical to country...
, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra is a Canadian orchestra based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Its primary concert venue is the Centennial Concert Hall, and the orchestra also performs throughout the province of Manitoba.-History:...
, Opéra-Théâtre de Metz
Opéra-Théâtre de Metz
The Opéra-Théatre de Metz Métropole is an 750-seat opera house and theatre located on the Petit-Saulcy island in Metz, capital of the Lorraine region, France. It is the oldest opera house working in France and one of the oldest in Europe...
, Deutsche Oper am Rhein
Deutsche Oper am Rhein
The Deutsche Oper am Rhein is an opera company based in Düsseldorf and Duisburg. The opera also has an associated classical ballet company....
, the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg
Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg
The Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, inaugurated in 1964 as the Théâtre Municipal de la Ville de Luxembourg, underwent renovation work in 2002–2003 resulting in substantial improvements to the stage technology, acoustics and lighting facilities...
, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony
Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony
The Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony is a Canadian orchestra based in the twin cities of Kitchener and Waterloo, Ontario. Its home venue is Centre In The Square in Kitchener, Ontario. Music Directors and Principal Conductors have included Raffi Armenian , Chosei Komatsu , Martin Fischer-Dieskau and...
, Orchestra London, Symphony Nova Scotia
Symphony Nova Scotia
Symphony Nova Scotia is a professional orchestra based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.Symphony Nova Scotia traces its origins back to several different orchestras, including the Halifax Symphony , the Halifax Sinfoniette , and the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra . Its current structure began in 1983...
, the San Remo Symphony, the Springfield Symphony Orchestra
Springfield Symphony Orchestra
The Springfield Symphony Orchestra is an orchestra based in Springfield, Massachusetts. It performs at Symphony Hall, a part of the Springfield Municipal Group....
, the Szombathely Symphony and the Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden.
Teaching Positions
Moull is an active music educator. From 1985 to 1994 he was the director of a series of conducting seminars given by the Bavarian Music Council in Hof and Markt Oberdorf, Germany. From 1990 to 1992 Moull was Music Director of the Musikhochschule MünsterMusikhochschule Münster
The Musikhochschule Münster is a university-level school of music in Münster, Germany.From 1972 to 2003 the Musikhochschule Münster was integrated as a campus of the Hochschule für Musik Detmold...
Symphony Orchestra at the University of Münster
University of Münster
The University of Münster is a public university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. The WWU is part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, a society of Germany's leading research universities...
. In 1998, he gave master classes in operatic conducting, coaching and singing at the University of Southern California
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
, and was guest conductor of the McGill Symphony Orchestra in 2000. From 2008 to 2009 Moull was Mentor and Coach of the Opera Program at Wilfrid Laurier University
Wilfrid Laurier University
Wilfrid Laurier University is a university located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It also has campuses in Brantford, Ontario, Kitchener, Ontario and Toronto, Ontario and a future proposed campus in Milton, Ontario. It is named in honour of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the seventh Prime Minister of Canada....
and in 2010 he was appointed Visiting Professor of the Hochschule für Musik Detmold
Hochschule für Musik Detmold
The University of Music Detmold is one of Germany's leading university-level schools of music, situated in Detmold, Germany.- Academics :...
. In July 2010 Moull was appointed Associate Professor, Director of Orchestras, at The University of Western Ontario
University of Western Ontario
The University of Western Ontario is a public research university located in London, Ontario, Canada. The university's main campus covers of land, with the Thames River cutting through the eastern portion of the main campus. Western administers its programs through 12 different faculties and...
. His responsibilities include conducting the UWO Symphony Orchestra, the UWO Chamber Orchestra, UWOpera productions and teaching graduate conducting.
Collaborations
Throughout the course of his career, Moull has collaborated with distinguished guest artists such as Measha BrueggergosmanMeasha Brueggergosman
Measha Brueggergosman is a Canadian soprano who performs both as an opera singer and concert artist. She has performed internationally and won numerous awards...
, Falk Struckmann
Falk Struckmann
Falk Struckmann is an operatic bass-baritone, particularly prominent in the Wagnerian repertoire.A Kammersänger of the Vienna State Opera, he made his debut there as Orest in Elektra on September 13, 1991...
, Anton Kuerti
Anton Kuerti
Anton Kuerti, OC is an Austrian-born Canadian pianist, music teacher, composer, and conductor. Since his performance of the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Boston Pops Orchestra at age 11, he has developed international recognition as a solo pianist, particularly focusing on the works of Beethoven...
, James Ehnes
James Ehnes
James Ehnes, CM is a Canadian concert violinist.The son of Alan Ehnes, trumpet professor at Brandon University and Barbara Ehnes, former director of the Brandon School of Dance, James Ehnes began his violin studies at the age of four...
, Marc-André Hamelin
Marc-André Hamelin
Marc-André Hamelin, OC, CQ, is a French Canadian virtuoso pianist and composer.Born in Montreal, Quebec, Marc-André Hamelin began his piano studies at the age of five. His father, a pharmacist by trade who was also a pianist, introduced him to the works of Alkan, Godowsky, and Sorabji when he was...
, Johan Botha, Kolja Blacher, Janina Fialkowska
Janina Fialkowska
Janina Fialkowska, OC is a Canadian-American classical pianist.- Early life :Fialkowska was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to a Canadian mother and a Polish father , an engineer and Polish army officer who emigrated to Canada in 1945...
, Matthias Goerne
Matthias Goerne
Matthias Goerne is a German baritone.Born in Weimar, he studied with Hans-Joachim Beyer, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf....
, Shauna Rolston
Shauna Rolston
Shauna Rolston is a Canadian cellist. Rolston was born in Edmonton, Alberta.Rolston was a cello prodigy when young and attended the Geneva Conservatory in Switzerland at fourteen, where she studied with Pierre Fournier, and later at the Britten-Pears School in Aldeburgh where she also studied...
, Erika Raum
Erika Raum
Canadian violinist Erika Raum began playing professionally at the age of twelve, and quickly rose through the ranks. She took first place at the 1992 Joseph Szigeti International Violin Competition in Budapest as well as the award for best interpretation of a Mozart concerto...
, Denise Djokic
Denise Djokic
Denise Djokic is a gifted cellist from Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is the daughter of Lynn Stodola and Philippe Djokic.Cellist Denise Djokic has been praised worldwide for her sincere, powerful interpretations, and her bold command of the instrument. Instantly recognized by her "arrestingly...
, Donna Brown, Tracy Dahl, Daniel Lichti, Theodore Baerg, André Laplante
André Laplante
André Laplante, is a Canadian pianist.Laplante was awarded 3rd prizes at the inaugural edition of the Sydney Competition and the XV Long-Thibaud Competition, and, most notably, shared a 2nd prize with Pascal Devoyon at the 1978 International Tchaikovsky Competition...
, Maria Kliegel
Maria Kliegel
-Professional career:Kliegel was born in Dillenburg, Hesse. She studied under Janos Starker starting at the age of 19. She won first prize at the American College Competition, First German Music Competition and Concours Aldo Parisot, and was also the Grand Prize winner at the 2nd Mstislav...
, Tom Malone
Tom Malone (musician)
Tom "Bones" Malone is an American jazz musician. As his nickname implies, he specializes on the trombone, but also plays trumpet, tuba, tenor sax, baritone sax, flutes, piccolo, and other instruments....
, and John Arpin
John Arpin
John Francis Oscar Arpin was a Canadian composer, recording artist and entertainer, best known for his work as a virtuoso ragtime pianist....
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