Aurel Dawidiuk becomes General Music Director in Bochum
Aurel Dawidiuk, who is currently studying conducting in Zurich with Christoph-Mathias Mueller, becomes General Music Director of the Bochum Symphony Orchestra.
Dawidiuk will become General Music Director of the Bochum Symphony Orchestra and Director of the Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr from the 2026/27 season. The 25-year-old is currently studying conducting in the Master Specialized Performance with Christoph-Mathias Mueller at the Conductors Studio ZHdK (Zurich University of the Arts). He is also deputy conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam.
His numerous guest conducting engagements include appearances with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. As a pianist and organist, he performs in concert halls such as the Berlin Philharmonie, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Vienna Konzerthaus and the Tonhalle Zurich.
Founded in 1919, the Bochum Symphony Orchestra was led by the Israeli-American conductor Steven Sloane from 1994 to 2021. During his tenure, he received two awards from the German Music Publishers Association for his concert programs (1996/1997 and 2004/2005 seasons).
Sloane's greatest achievements also include the realization of the Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr concert hall, which opened in 2016 and of which he was Artistic Director until his departure. Since the start of the 2021/2022 season, Taiwan-born conductor Tung-Chieh Chuang has been General Music Director of the Bochum Symphony Orchestra and Artistic Director of the Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr.
