On December 9, 2022, Peninsula Music Festival announced the appointment of Maestro Rune Bermann, who brings an unparalleled performance worthy of big-city venues to the picturesque Door County Peninsula.
Norwegian conductor Rune Bergmann is currently the Music Director of Canada’s Calgary Philharmonic, the Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of Poland’s Szczecin Philharmonic, and the Chief Conductor of Switzerland’s Argovia Philharmonic, positions he has held since the 2017/18, 2016/17, and 2020/21 seasons, respectively.
Guest engagements in the 2022/23 season brought Bergmann once again to the podiums of the Baltimore, North Carolina, and Malaga Symphony Orchestras. He will also debut with the recently formed ADDA Simfonica in Spain.
Bergmann’s recent guest engagements include concert weeks with the Baltimore, Colorado, Detroit, Edmonton, Houston, New Jersey, Pacific and Utah Symphony Orchestras in North America, and the Bergen Philharmonic, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Orquesta Sinfonica Portuguesa, Norwegian National Opera Orchestra, Orquesta de Valencia, Staatskapelle Halle, Wrocław Philharmonic, and the Risør Festival in Europe, to name a few.
Bergmann has also led performances of Il Barbiere di Siviglia and La Traviata at the Norwegian National Opera. He made his US operatic debut in Yale Opera’s production of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as staged by Claudia Solti.
In contrast, previous guest engagements have led him to such auspices as the Oslo Philharmonic, New Mexico Philharmonic, Münchner Symphoniker, Mainfranken Theater Würzburg, Philharmonie Südwestfalen, as well as the symphony orchestras of Malmö, Helsingborg, Kristiansand, Stavanger, Trondheim, Karlskrona, and Odense.
2018 saw the release of Bergmann’s first recording with the Szczecin Philharmonic, which featured the “Resurrection” Symphony in E-minor by Mieczyław Karłowicz, a piece that has since become a major focus of Bergmann’s repertoire. He has also released recordings with the Argovia Philharmonic, including Ravel’s G-Major Piano Concerto and Mozart’s Bb-Major Bassoon Concerto.
Earlier in his career, Rune Bergmann served as First Kapellmeister and deputy-Music Director of the Theater Augsburg, where he led performances of numerous operas, including such titles as La Traviata, Der fliegende Holländer, and Die Fledermaus. He has also served as Principal Guest Conductor of the Kaunas City Symphony and has been Artistic Director of Norway’s innovative Fjord Cadenza Festival since its inception in 2010.