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Graham Cox
Graham Cox began his professional musical career as piano accompanist and
conductor of the Australian Boys’ Choir. At Melbourne University he studied
piano, organ and harpsichord and continued his studies in Europe with the
organist Daniel Roth and baroque specialist Ton Koopman. Whilst still a student,
he worked as a church musician and concert organist.
From 1978 till 1986 he worked as repetiteur and conductor at the Victoria State
Opera in Melbourne and was frequently engaged as organist and harpsichordist by
the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
In 1982 he gave a series of organ recitals in East and West Germany. Although he
enjoyed playing in such wonderful venues as the Luebeck Dom, Ulmer Muenster,
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedaechtnis-Kirche, Berlin and the Merseburger Dom, he decided
that working in the opera house or with an orchestra was the direction he would
follow.
In 1986 he moved to Germany, first as repetiteur and conductor at the City
Theatre of Osnabrück. Later positions were as Head of Music Staff and conductor
in Kiel and Kaiserslautern.
From 1998 till 2004 he worked as repetiteur at the Deutsche Opera Berlin and was
also frequently employed as pianist, harpsichordist and organist by Berlin
orchestras. As guest conductor he gave concerts with the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin
and with the Berliner Symphoniker. As jazz pianist he played regularly at the
popular Kreuzberg restaurant “Le Cochon Bourgeois”.
From 2004 till 2008 he was Head of Music Staff at the Nuremberg State Theatre
and since 2005 has been regularly engaged by the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra as
keyboarder, with highlights including concerts at the Edinburgh and Lucerne
Festivals and in La Scala, Milan, and in 2011 harpsichord soloist in Bach's
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5.
In 2009 he was engaged for the first time by the Flemish Opera in Antwerp as
assistant conductor to Dmitri Jurowski, and as Studienleiter for the Ludwigsburg
Castle Festival. He spent most of 2009 and 2010 as music manager on board AIDA
cruise ships.
In 2011 and 2012 he worked again at the Flemish Opera as assistant conductor to
Alexander Joel and to Yannis Pouspourikas, and as private vocal coach based in
Berlin.
Throughout the years he has assisted many well-known conductors, including
Philip Auguin, Lawrence Foster, Johannes Fritzsch, Christopher Hogwood, Mikhail
Jurowski, Jiri Kout, Sir Charles Mackerras, Christian Thielemann, Marcello
Viotti, Lothar Zagrozek, Christof Prick und Klaus-Peter Seibel. He has also
accompanied singing lessons given by such prominent teachers as Karan Armstrong,
Grace Bumbry, Irmgard Hartmann-Dressler, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau und Kurt Moll.
Already in Melbourne but especially as repetiteur at the Deutsche Oper and as
head of music of the opera studio of the State Theatre of Nuremberg, he has
devoted much of his time to coaching and mentoring young singers. He continues
this work now in Berlin.
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