PHILIPP JUNDT VITA

Multifaceted programs featuring world premieres, improvisations and arrangements drawn from a repertoire rich in songs and violin compositions make the concert performances of Swiss flutist Philipp Jundt very special experiences. The warmth of his tone paired with his great dynamic expressiveness has captivated audiences around the world. For the last decade Jundt has crisscrossed Asia, Europe and North America. In addition to his concert performances and teaching duties he has passionately devoted himself to arranging—his current project is a series of new arrangements of selected songs by for flute and .

As a soloist Philipp Jundt has been a guest of the Tonhalle Orchestra , Camerata Zurich, Chamber Orchestra, Camerata , Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Kammerorchester Basel, the Orchestra of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Davos Music Festival, the Gyonggi-Do Philharmonic Orchestra, the Wind Orchestra and the Korea Symphony Orchestra in Seoul.

The flutist has performed under renowned conductors like Sir Colin Davies, Christoph Eschenbach, Valery Gergiev, Alexander Lazarev, Fabio Luisi, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Metha, Krzysztof Penderecki, Helmut Rilling, Jukka-Pekka Saraste and Jeffrey Tate.

This season Philipp Jundt and the New Zurich Orchestra will embark on a tour of and Asia, performing Joaquín Rodrigo’s Concierto pastoral for flute and orchestra at concerts in Seoul, Shanghai, , Bangkok and Singapore and more. The high point will be the debut in ’s famed Suntory Hall. In addition to a recital evening in Seoul a number of festivals round out the flutist’s concert calendar, in particular the Sir James Galway Flute Festival in Weggis, Switzerland in July and the International Flute Festival Salerno in Italy. The first Korean Sir James Galway Flute Festival is planned for 2016. In fall of the same year the first Gonijam Valley Music Festival will also take place. Philipp Jundt is a co-founder of this ambitious project and has been named its artistic director.

Philipp Jundt was the first solo flutist for the KBS Symphony Orchestra Seoul, Korea’s oldest and most important radio orchestra. He has also performed with the Munich Philharmonic, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Stuttgart Philharmonic and the Bavarian State Orchestra.

Philipp Jundt received his first flute lessons from Kiyoshi Kasai and Aurèle Nicolet. He studied under András Adorján in Munich and under Jeanne Baxtresser in Pittsburgh and Boston. He completed his training in Munich with the distinguished Meisterklassenpodium. At the same time he completed his study of economics at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and Harvard University in Boston, where he earned a bachelor’s degree.

During his studies Philipp Jundt began forging ties with young composers that have endured to this day. The composers Marco Hertenstein and Barbara Croall have dedicated many works to him, including Hertenstein’s Concert for Flute and Orchestra and Croal’s Noodin. Their fertile collaborations yielded concert tours in the USA, Canada, and Switzerland. Toronto’s Ergo Ensemble, co-founded by Jundt, has made a name for itself internationally, commissioning more than 40 new compositions and premiering them all over the world.

Philipp Jundt is a regular guest at international music festivals like the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Niagara International Chamber Music Festival (Canada), Young Artists In Concert (Davos), ADEvantgarde Festival (Munich), ConTakt Toronto, Academy of the West (Santa Barbara, CA), Kagaan Musikfestival Kreuth, Murten Classics (Switzerland), Rheingau Musikfestival (Germany), the Tongyeong Festival and the Pacific Music Festival in Japan. His chamber music partners include Niels Mönkemeyer, Sebastian Klinger, Freddy Kempf, members of the Oliver Schnyder Trio, Henrik Wiese, Galina Vracheva, Fabio di Casola and Esther Hoppe.

In addition to concert performances, his teaching activities have been an important and rewarding part of his career for many years. Since 2008 Philipp Jundt has held a professorship for the flute at the German School of Music Weimar, a joint endeavor of the Liszt School of Music Weimar and Kangnam University in Korea. His students have won competitions and orchestra chairs around the world. Jundt is also a guest lecturer for master classes in Greece, Korea and New York as well as at the Barenboim-Said Foundation in Ramallah, Israel.

Since 2012 he has served as the director of the Korean Flute Educator’s Association.

He made his CD debut in 2002 with a recording of Swiss flute concerts on the English label Guild. The flutist has also lent his talents to many radio and television productions around the world, especially for the Canadian broadcaster CBC with his Toronto-based Ergo Ensemble.

Philipp Jundt plays an Albert Cooper flute. www.philippjundt.com