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Conductor

Patrick Strub

In 1947, Patrick Strub was born into a family of musicians. He initially studied musicology and psychology in Munich and subsequently violin in Hamburg and Rome. In addition to this he followed the conducting classes of Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg in Hamburg and later of Franco Ferrara in Siena, where Patrick Strub was awarded the diploma at the International Conductors Course as an outstanding artist.

Strub has been artistic director of the Christophorus-Symphony-Orchestra Stuttgart since 1979. It is made up of students from all faculties and prospective professional musicians, and has become, under his direction, one of the most important student symphony orchestras in Southern Germany.

In 1984 he received his first invitation to the United States of America to conduct at the prestigious traditional Sewanee Music Festival in Tennessee. In the same year, he founded »arcata stuttgart«, his professional chamber orchestra. To date he has given over 500 concerts with arcata, both at home and abroad (across Europe, in the Near East, Central America, East Asia and Australia). This very fruitful collaborationhas produced numerous radio recordings and CD’s (on the Hänssler Classic label) as well as many appearances at important national and international festivals.

Since 1986, Patrick Strub has regularly been invited to conduct in the United States of America and Australia. In 1987 he was the first ever invited conductor to lead an immensely successful concert tour of the United States and Canada of the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra with concerts in sixteen cities; this was followed by a subsequent tour to the United States in 1988.

Patrick Strub is now heavily in demand as a Guest Conductor and recording artist and he has recorded and toured with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, the Württemberg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, the State Philharmonic in Kosice, the Chamber Orchestra of Sicily, the Cappella Istropolitana from Bratislava, the Konzertverein Winterthur, Switzerland. Furthermore he appeared as Guest Conduc-tor at the Nürnberg Symphony, the Radio Orchestra in Krakowje/Poland, the Kobe Chamber Orchestra, Japan, the National Radio and TV Orchestra Beijing/China, the Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra, Australia.

In the autumn of the year 2000 he was appointed to the post of Principal Guest Conductor by the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Macedonia.

Strub lays particular emphasis on the development of young musicians: taking the role of guest conductor of music schools, universities and at National Music Camps at home, abroad and overseas, furthermore touring with the Baden Württemberg Youth Orchestra (Germany) and the Australian Youth Orchestra, as well as participating as guest conductor and judge at national and international festivals and competitions. Patrick Strub was invited to the position of Musical Director and Chief Conductor of the Melbourne Summer Academy in 1993/94, and was appointed Guest Conductor of the International Music Festival in Banff/Canada in 1998 and 2000.