Bernhard Gueller has been music director or principal conductor of several orchestras, including the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra as well as the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, a position he relinquished in 2009. When he conducted his final concert in Nuremberg that year, he was lauded for the quality of the orchestra he had built up.
His conducting career has taken him to many top concert halls from America and Australia to Russia, Japan, China, Korea, South Africa and Brazil, as well as countries in Europe such as Spain, Italy, France, Norway and Sweden and his native Germany. Orchestras he has conducted include the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, the City of Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Nashville Symphony and Buffalo Symphony in America, the Orchestre-de-Bretagne, Rennes,and Orchestra of the Loire in France, the Kanagawa Symphony Orchestra in Yokohama, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and the Calagary, Edmonton and Victoria Symphony Orchestras in Canada.
As principal conductor of the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, Gueller took the orchestra to the 16th International Festival of Music in the Canary Islands in 2000, where the CTPO represented the continent of Africa. He took the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra on a tour of several cities in northern Germany, and also gave a concert in the Berlin Konserthaus.
Gueller has collaborated with many leading soloists such as cellists Daniel Mueller-Schott, Maria Kliegel, Claudio Bohorquez and David Geringas; pianists, Ivo Pogorelich, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Lars Vogt, Janina Fialkowska, Peter Donohoe, Anton Kuerti, John Kimura Parker and Wayne Marshall, violinist James Ehnes, trumpeter Maurice Andre, singer Measha Bruggergosman, and entertainers Lionel Ritchie and David Foster.
He is acknowledged for the work he does with youth orchestras in South Africa, Germany and Nova Scotia and was awarded an honorary doctorate by Dalhousie University in Halifax in 2009 in recognition of his “outstanding personal achievements.”
