ENSEMBLES 2009
Julio Doggenweiler
Artistic Director
Fernandez was born in Santiago di Chile. After transverse flute studies at the Musikhochschule Hannover and further studies in New York he was for five years first transverse flute soloist of the Orquestra Sinfónica di Chile. From 1990 to 1994 he studied conductorship at the Musikhochschule Munich with Professor Rolf Reuter and Professor Hermann Michael followed by master courses with Sergiu Celibidache. Julio Doggenweiler Fernandez was semifinalist of the conductorship competition "The Masterplayers "at Lugano / Switzerland. As from 1992 he conducts regularly all reputed orchestras of his home country Chile and of Argentina. He is regularly guest conductor of the Orquestra Sinfónica de Chile and the Orquestra da Camara di Chile. As from 1997 he conducts the concerts of the Germering chamber choir at the Germering townhall near Munich. The repertoire ist remarkable and includes of Johann Sebastian Bach the Christmas Oratorium, the St. Johns Passion and the St. Matthews Passion, of Georg Friedrich Händel the Messias, of Christoph Willibald Gluck the Orfeo ed Euridice, of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart the Requiem, of Guiseppe. Rossini the Stabat Mater and the Petite Messe Solennelle and of Carl Orff the Carmina Burana. Julio Doggenweiler Fernandez is a promotor of the contemporary music of his home country and has performed for the first time various works of composers of Chile. His concerts are regularly transmitted by the Chile Broadcasting Corporation. As from october 2006 Julio Doggenweiler Fernandez conducts the Odeon youth orchestra Munich and is together with Wolfgang Berg the art director of the Odeon Association
