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[[File:Philippe Bach.jpg|thumb|Philippe Bach]]

'''Philippe Bach''' (born 1974) is a Swiss [[Conducting|conductor]]<ref>{{cite web| author=| title=Philippe Bach, Dirigent| url=http://www.philippebach.ch/persoen.php| publisher=| date=| accessdate=17 December 2008| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150508084043/http://www.philippebach.ch/persoen.php| archive-date=8 May 2015| url-status=dead}}</ref> and current music director of [[Meiningen]]'s [[Meiningen Court Orchestra|Hofkapelle]] and [[Meiningen#Theatre|Theatre]].

==Biography==
Bach was born in [[Saanen]], Switzerland, and studied Horn in [[Bern]] and [[Geneva|Genève]] and conducting in [[Zürich]]. Philippe Bach was a Junior Fellow in Conducting at the [[Royal Northern College of Music]] in [[Manchester]] and also attended the American Academy of Conducting at the [[Aspen Music Festival]].<ref>{{cite web | author= | title=Dirigenten | url=http://www.zugersinfonietta.ch/orchester/dirigenten.php | publisher=Zuger Sinfonietta | date= | accessdate=17 December 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140214164507/http://www.zugersinfonietta.ch/orchester/dirigenten.php | archive-date=14 February 2014 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2006, Philippe won the first prize of the [[Lopez Cobos International Opera Conductors Competition]] and was appointed assistant conductor of the [[Teatro Real]] in [[Madrid]].

In 2008 made his début at the [[Hamburg State Opera]] conducting ''[[Hänsel und Gretel (opera)|Hansel and Gretel]]'' and since then has conducted ''[[Die Zauberflöte]]'' and ''[[La traviata]]'' there. At the [[Teatro Real]] in Madrid he has conducted performances of ''[[Madama Butterfly]]'' and ''[[The Barber of Seville]]''.

In concert he has conducted the [[Tonhalle Orchester Zurich]], [[Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana]], [[Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid]], Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie, [[Hallé Orchestra]], [[Royal Liverpool Philharmonic]], [[Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne]], [[London Symphony Orchestra|London Symphony]] (Discovery Scheme), [[London Philharmonic]],<ref>{{cite web | author= | title=Philippe Bach dirigiert das London Philharmonic Orchestra | url=http://www.menuhinfestivalgstaad.ch/j/content/view/137/50/lang,de/| publisher= | date= | accessdate=17 January 2009}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> [[Philharmonia]] (International Conductors’ Academy) and the [[Bournemouth Symphony]] Orchestras.

In December 2007 Philippe Bach was appointed first [[Kapellmeister]] and ''Stellvertretender Generalmusikdirektor'' (Deputy music director) at the [[Theater Lübeck]], where he conducted ''[[Rigoletto]]'', ''[[Andrea Chénier]]'', ''[[Eugene Onegin (opera)|Eugene Onegin]]'', ''[[Il trovatore]]'', ''[[Das Rheingold]]'', and [[Othmar Schoeck]]'s ''[[Penthesilea (opera)|Penthesilea]]''.

From the 2010/11 season is Bach [[music director]] at [[Meiningen Court Theatre|South Thuringia State Theatre]] in [[Meiningen]] and director of [[Meiningen Court Orchestra]].

== References ==
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== External links ==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20091025025841/http://www.philippebach.ch/bio_engl.pdf Philippe Bach official website]

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