Vita
The German Conductor, Stefan Bone, is currently Kapellmeister at the Opernhaus der Landeshauptstadt Kiel where his activities include opera and ballet performances as well as family and gala concerts with Philharmonisches Orchester Kiel. Highlights of the 2024/25 season included conducting works by Giuseppe Verdi (Don Carlos), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Die Zauberflöte), Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (Ein Sommernachtstraum) and Carl Maria von Weber (Der Freischütz).
He formerly served the position of solo répétiteur for the opera house, responsible for rehearsals of works composed bei Richard Wagner (Der Ring des Nibelungen) and Richard Strauss (Arabella).
Since 2021, Stefan Bone has been Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Chamber Orchestra of the Greater Region, a paneuropean symphonic chamber orchestra composed of young professional musicians and selected top music students from the German-French border region, Luxembourg and Belgium. The ensemble's activities focus on regional and international cultural cooperation, as well as providing rural areas with high-cultural offerings. Under his direction, the KOG has performed at the Saar International Music Festival, the Théodore Gouvy International Festival, and the Euroclassic Festival, and has established its own concert series in the concert hall of the Saar University of Music, the Saarbrücken Synagogue, and the Old Monastery Church of St. Gangolf in Merzig.
Since 2024, he has served as Chief Conductor of the Academic Orchestra of Kiel University.
Guest conducting engagements have recently taken him to the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen (MusicLab-Carmen), the Chemnitz Opera House (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte), the Pforzheim Opera House (Engelbert Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel) and the English National Ballet (Peter Tschaikowsky: Sleeping Beauty). In 2025, he made his concert debut with the Mitteldeutsche Kammerphilharmonie Schönebeck and conducted the orchestra of the Opernfestspiele am Saarpolygon (Die Zauberflöte).
His new production of Die Entführung aus dem Serail, conducted in 2018 as part of the Musik und Theater Saar festival, met with great acclaim. The Saarbrücker Zeitung described the quality of the festival orchestra as “pure sonic pleasure, with a robust Janissary-band percussiveness as well as airy, deliciously blossoming Mozart sound”. Opus magazine praised an “excellently organised orchestra under the expert direction of the young Kiel Kapellmeister Stefan Bone”.
Prior to his work in Kiel, Stefan Bone was Chief Conductor of Freiburger Orchestergesellschaft. From 2013 to 2016, he was a lecturer in coaching at the Hochschule für Musik Saar and was active as a pianist at the Stadttheater Freiburg.
From 2012 to 2016, Stefan Bone studied orchestra conducting with Lutz Köhler, Scott Sandmeier and Massimiliano Matesic at the University of Music Freiburg. He was the finalist for the Neeme-Järvi Conducting Prize at the Menuhin Festival Gstaad in 2015 and, in the same year, was one of four finalists competing for the Sir Georg Solti Fellowship of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He has taken further conducting studies with Daniele Gatti, David Zinman, Neeme Järvi and Gennady Rozhdestvensky.
Stefan Bone has received special support from such conductors as Paavo Järvi, Georg Fritzsch and Leonid Grin. He assisted them in philharmonic concerts at the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Chile in Santiago de Chile, as well as in Buenos Aires at Teatro Colón and the Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires in 2017. In the same year he helped Paavo Järvi in a series of concerts with the Sinfonietta Riga and the Estonian Festival Orchestra and assisted him in his Elbphilharmonie debut concert with NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and Shostakowitsch`s Leningrad Symphony.
Stefan Bone completed his piano studies with Professor Kristin Merscher with a bachelor's and master degree at the University of Music Saar. He gained further assistance in piano and chamber music from Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Arbo Valdma and Eduard Brunner. He is the first winner of the Concours artistique d`Epinal in the chamber music category.