Steven Sloane

Born in Los Angeles in 1958; the American-Israeli conductor Steven Sloane studied musicology in Los Angeles and conducting with Eugene Ormandy, Franco Ferrara and Gary Bertini. In 1981 he moved to Israel. In 1988 he became first Kapellmeister of the Oper Frankfurt, in 1990 permanent conductor of the New York City Opera and in 1992 music director of the Long Beach Opera. From 1994 to 2021 he was general music director of the Bochumer Symphoniker, from 1996 to 2000 music director of the Spoleto Festival, from 1999 to 2003 artistic director of Opera North in Leeds and from 2002 to 2006 music director of the American Composers Orchestra; from the 2007/08 season he was principal conductor of the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra. As one of the artistic directors of RUHR.2010 he was responsible for the programme conception of the Capital of Culture year. He conducted the premieres of Elliot Goldenthal’s “Grendel” (Los Angeles Opera, 2006) and Stewart Wallace’s “Bonesetter’s Daughter” (San Francisco Opera, 2008). Sloane is professor of conducting at the UdK Berlin and principal conductor of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.