A native of Germany now living in New York City, Sybille Werner has established herself as a symphonic and operatic conductor of note on both sides of the Atlantic.
In the United States she founded the Pro Solisti Chamber Orchestra and she served as Assistant Conductor of the Metropolitan Y Orchestra of West Orange, New Jersey. Subsequently she held the position of Music Director/Conductor with the Manhattan Opera Association for three seasons, with the Rockaway-Five Towns Symphony for two seasons, and with the New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble for nine seasons. Active as a guest conductor, she has appeared repeatedly with the Fort Collins Symphony in Colorado and Opera Amici in Manhattan, as well as with the Long Island Opera Company and the Greenwich Village Orchestra.
Ms. Werner made her European conducting debut in 1994, leading the Czestochowa State Philharmonic and the Kalisz Symphony in Poland; she subsequently returned to the country for concerts with the orchestras of Koszalin, Plock, Bialystok, Torun, Walbrzych, Kielce and Poznan, where she also recorded works of the American composer Roger Nortman. German State Television ARD has repeatedly aired a prime-time 45-minute documentary about her which was filmed in New York, in Germany, and during a guest engagement with Sinfonietta Cracovia in Cracow. Further European appearances include concerts with the First Women’s Chamber Orchestra of Austria, with Collegium Musicum Schloss Pommersfelden, and a recording engagement with the Südwest Rundfunk Orchester Kaiserslautern. Ms. Werner made her Mexican debut in San Luis Potosi November of 2007 in a program which included Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No.1.
In 2010 she will record for Bayerischer Rundfunk with the Bamberger Symphoniker.
A champion of contemporary music, particularly opera, Ms. Werner presented the world premiere of Martin Halpern's The Boy from Deerfield in New York in May 2000. The following year she made her first visit to Japan to conduct Keiko Fujiie’s La Niña de Cera in Tokyo and Kyoto, followed by a multi-media staging of Dave Soldier’s Naked Revolution in Virginia. After leading numerous performances of Grigori Frid’s The Diary of Anne Frank in New York in 2001/2, she was invited to conduct this production at the Cleveland Opera in June 2004.
In addition to her work as a conductor, she has contributed to and assisted Prof. Henry-Louis de La Grange with his monumental biography of Gustav Mahler since 2005, including the compilation of an extensive performance chronology spanning the period 1911 to 1961.
Sybille Werner was born in Schwabach, Germany, where she graduated early from the Wolfram-von-Eschenbach High School of Fine Arts. Subsequently relocating to the United States, she earned a B.A. degree magna cum laude and a M.A. degree from California State University at Los Angeles, where she studied with Michael Zearott. Her other teachers include Fritz Zweig, Richard Lert, and Otto-Werner Mueller, and she participated in seminars under the auspices of the American Symphony Orchestra League and the Conductors’ Guild.