Orchestra Conducting Masterclass
“How to prepare for a conducting competition” with Maestro Arturo Tamayo And Berliner Symphoniker
December 2025, 8th-11th | Berlin | Private concert at the end
About the orchestra
For over five decades, the Berliner Symphoniker have been an integral part of Berlin's musical and cultural life, enriching the German orchestral landscape. Since 1990, they have been the orchestra for all Berliners.
In addition to the popular and long-established symphony concerts held at the Berlin Philharmonic, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra performs throughout Berlin and the surrounding area. They are regular guests at venues including the Konzerthaus Berlin, the University of the Arts, the Berlin Cathedral, the Kulturbrauerei, and Chorin Monastery. With guest performances in Europe and tours to North and South America, Africa, and Asia, as well as appearances at international festivals (including those in France, Italy, Austria, Spain, and Israel), the Berlin Symphony Orchestra enjoys worldwide success and sees itself as Berlin's cultural ambassadors.
In addition to the classical, wide-ranging and popular concert program, the repertoire of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra also includes special rarities – unknown and forgotten works as well as contemporary compositions.
Music education, as a special focus, has always been a hallmark of the orchestra. The Berlin Symphony Orchestra was the first orchestra in Berlin to develop a music education profile with school concerts and children's and family concerts, and to sustainably establish and promote young talent. Numerous CD recordings and television recordings round out the multifaceted work of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra.
About Arturo Tamayo
Born in Madrid (Spain). Studied at the law faculty and at the same time studied music at the Real Conservatorio de Música in Madrid (piano, percussion, music theory, composition), which he completed with an honorary prize for composition. Conducting course with Pierre Boulez in Basel, followed by studies at the Freiburg State University of Music (composition with Wolfgang Fortner and Klaus Huber, conducting with Francis Travis). After completing his conducting studies, he took a conducting course with Witold Rowicki in Vienna.
Until 1998, assistant to Klaus Huber at the Institute for New Music at the Freiburg University. Founding of the ensemble for new music. 1979-1997 Professor for interpretation of XXth century music. Century in Freiburg.
From 1977 onwards, active concert activity and numerous radio productions, especially around new music. Collaboration with important European orchestras (Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern, London Sinfonietta, Klangforum Wien, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra London, RSO-Vienna, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, WDR Symphony Orchestra, RSO Stuttgart, Südwestfunk Symphony Orchestra , German Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Orchestra of the German Opera Berlin, Orchester Nationale de France, Orchester Philarmonique de Radio France, Residentie-Orchester den Haag, Orchester de la Suisse Romande, Symphony Orchestra of the Hessischer Rundfunk, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Nationale della RAI Torino, Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra dell'Accademia Santa Cecilia Roma, Oslo Philarmonic Orchestra, Orchester Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Philarmonic Orchestra Antwerp, Orchester de la BTR Bruxelles, Orquesta Nacional de España, Orquesta de la RTVE Madrid, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, Orchester Nationale de Lille, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchester Nationale de l'Île de France, Holland Radio Chamber Orchestra, Gustav Mahler Chamber Orchestra...).
Appearances at international music festivals, also as a sought-after premiere conductor (Donaueschinger Musiktage, Berliner Festwochen, Venice Biennale, Salzburg Festival, Lucerne Music Weeks, Steirischer Herbst, Wien Modern, Cologne Triennale, three CornerMaggio Musicale Fiorentino, Berlin Music Biennale, Holland Festival). World premiere of works by Iannis.
He also worked as an opera and ballet conductor at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Wolfgang Rihm's "Tutuguri" and "Jakob Lenz"; Mozart's "Magic Flute" and "The Marriage of Figaro", at the Schwetzingen Festival ("Ophelia" by Rudolf Kelterborn), at the Theater des Champs Elysées (Bellini's "Capuletti ed Montecchi"), Opera Comique Paris ("Donizetti's "La Favorite"), at the Grand Opera de Paris the premiere of Mauricio Ohana's "la Celestina", at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden (new production of Britten's " Peter Grimes"), at the Teatro Massimo Bellini Catania (Weber's "Der Freischütz"), at the Teatro Lírico Nacional Madrid (Alban Berg's "Lulu", Ravel's "L' heure espagnole", Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" and a new production of Verdi's "Stiffelio " with Plácido Domingo in the title role), at the Vienna State Opera (Mauricio Kagel's "Tanzt-Schul", De Falla's "Der Three cornered hut”!" and Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du printemps"). Busoni's "Doktor Faust", Schoenberg's "Moses und Aron" and Puccini's "La Bohème" at the Graz Opera. Hans Werner Henze "The Bassarids" at the Teatro Real in Madrid. At the Antike Musikspiele in Trier "Antigone" by Arthur Honegger and Strawinky's "Oedipus Rex" "Prometeo" by Luigi Nono. (Gibellina, Madrid, Berlin) In the Bunka Kaikun Theater Tokyo "Erwaltung" by Arnold Schöenberg and "La voix humaine" by Francis Poulenc with Jessie Norman as soloist…
His discography is very wide and diverse. Of his important recordings, the 4 CDs dedicated to Mauricio Ohana's orchestral works, which received 16 international prizes, should be mentioned here. As well as 5 CDs with Iannis Xenakis' most important orchestral works, which received several international awards. The 2 CD in this series is qualified as “one of the three best recordings of new music of 2002”. Two further CDs, each containing the orchestral music of Franco Donatoni and “The Rara Requiem by Sylvano Bussotti; the “Concerti per Orchestra” by Goffredo Petrassi with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Hilversum and the Orchestrawer.
Arturo Tamayo has given conducting lessons at the Freiburg University of Music, Graz University of the Arts, in Musikene (Basque Country) at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana Lugano, as well as in countless master classes in various European countries.
