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German conductor, a recognized specialist in Richard Wagner works, a long-term participant in the Bayreuth Festival. Musical director and conductor of the International Opera Studio of the German Opera on the Rhine (Düsseldorf, Duisburg).
Christoph Stöcker was born in Würzburg. As a child, he studied piano, organ, trumpet and double bass. He studied church music, was a member of the Stuttgart Chamber Choir and the RIAS Chamber Choir in Berlin. He studied orchestra conducting in music universities in southern Germany, in particular, at the Würzburg University of Music.
He began his career at the Mecklenburg State Theatre in Schwerin and at the Theater Münster, where he was introduced to Wagner Der Ring des Nibelung tetralogy for the first time. He gained experience as a stage director working at the Hamburg State Opera. His own productions included Julius Caesar by Handel, Hansel and Gretel by Humperdink, Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute by Mozart, and The Ring of the Nibelung by R. Wagner. He was an assistant conductor at the Berlin State Opera, theatres in Kassel, Geneva, Palermo, Verona, Rome, Paris, Barcelona, as well as the Kissinger Sommer festival and the Early Music Festival in Innsbruck. He has experience in working with student groups. He directed the Harvestehuder Symphony Orchestra, with which he performed successfully at the Laeiszhalle Hamburg. As a lecturer at the Hamburg Higher School of Music and Theatre, he conducted operas by contemporary composers – Stallerhof by Gerd Kühr and The Ghosts Sonata by Aribert Reimann.
Mr. Stöcker has participated in the Bayreuth Festival since 2006. In October 2019, at the invitation of Valery Gergiev, Christoph Stöcker conducted the production of Wagner’s Parsifal at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. He has also been conducting Tannhäuser by Wagner at the Mariinsky Theatre.
