Teresa Riveiro Böhm

Riveiro Böhm has been selected to participate in the Conductors ́ Academy with Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich in May 2021 and has also been appointed as Tanglewood Conducting Fellow in the summer of 2021.

In the 2020/21 season engagements currently planned include concerts with the National Orchestra of Spain, the Basel Chamber Orchestra and the Geneva Chamber Orchestra alongside with her work in Scotland.

Previous orchestral highlights include the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich (10th International Conducting Masterclass with David Zinman), the Philharmonie Südwestfalen, the Savaria Symphony Orchestra and the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz. In previous seasons Riveiro Böhm received the first prize at the Dichler Wettbewerb in Vienna and the first orchestra prize from the Savaria Symphony Orchestra.

Riveiro Böhm  first gained experience as a conductor through a number of choirs and orchestras in Vienna, including the Cappella Albertina Wien choir, of which she was Artistic Director. She has assisted with opera productions such as Britten The Rape of Lucretia at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne, Mozart Die Zauberflöte at Oper Burg Gars in Austria, and other choral works, including Mendelssohn Elijah in Trier Cathedral as part of the Mosel Music Festival, and with Bruckner Symphony No.9 at Cologne Cathedral.

In past seasons, Riveiro Böhm has been invited to masterclasses such as the Conducting Seminar at Tanglewood, the Gstaad Conducting Academy, the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and the BBC Philharmonic Masterclass (RNCM) with conductors including Johannes Schlaefli, Sian Edwards, Vittorio Parisi, James Lowe, Clark Rundell, Mark Heron and Manfred Honeck.

At the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland she has worked amongst others with Garry Walker, Masterclasses with Jessica Cottis, Baldur Brönimann, Martyn Brabbins (BBCSSO), Teddy Abrams (RSNO) and Stuart Stratford (Scottish Opera), Assisted at the BBCSSO Thomas Dausgaard, Donald Runnicles and Alpesh Chauhan.

Riveiro Böhm studied Orchestral Conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna (MDW) with Johannes Wildner and at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne with Alexander Rumpf and Stephan E. Wehr (opera). She previously studied Church Music (Choir Conducting with Erwin Ortner) at the MDW. At five years old she received her first violin lessons and studied at the Central Music School affiliated with the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow.

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