Philippe Bach

Conductor Philippe Bach has a versatile career as both an operatic and a symphonic conductor, in several musically diverse countries. He has held leadership positions in two of Germany's venerable opera theaters. Bach was born in Saanen, Switzerland, near Bern, in 1974. His first musical field of study was the French horn, which he studied in Bern and Geneva. Then he switched to conducting, working with Johannes Schlaefli at the Zurich University of the Arts, and the Royal Northern College of Music with Mark Elder. He also took a variety of master classes in conducting, inclu...