James Tuggle:
CLASS OF 1970
Kearny High SchoolClass of 1970
San diego, CA
James's Story
James Tuggle was born in Portland, Oregon/USA. He studied conducting in Los Angeles between 1972 and 1976 with his mentor Fritz Zweig and continued his education at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria with Otmar Suitner and in 1981 with Franco Ferrara in Siena.
From 1977 -1979 James Tuggle was assistant conductor for the the summer festival production of “Der Ring des Nibelungen” at the Seattle Opera. In 1982 he gave his debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and was immediately offered an engagement as conductor, a position he maintained the following 1983/84 season. During this time he also conducted concerts throughout Europe.
In September 1984 he accepted the position of music director with the Stuttgart Ballet. In addition to the intensive conducting schedule in Stuttgart, this position also gave him the possibility to work with orchestras all over the world as a result of the intensive touring schedule of the company. In 1988 James Tuggle started to work together with the choreographer Youri Vamos, first in Bonn then in Basel, Switzerland as of 1991. After a very successful debut at the Wiener Staatsoper in 1993, James Tuggle was eng...Expand for more
aged there as main conductor and musical advisor for the ballet and as opera conductor until 1997. From 1996 to 2001 he guested regularly at the Komische Oper Berlin and at the Opera in Rome.
In 1997 till 2021 James Tuggle returned to the Stuttgart Ballet as Music Director, where he conducts a wide repertory of works and tours around the world with the company. In 2001 he conducted for American Ballet Theater at the Metropolitan Opera House, since 2002 he is a regular guest conductor with the Paris Opera Ballet, the Wiener Staatsoper, La Scala in Milan, The Zurich Ballet, the National Ballet of Portugal, the Hong Kong Ballet and the Semperoper Ballet in Dresden. Since 2014 he appears regularly with the Korean National Ballet. 2018 - 2022 Principal conductor of the Korean National Ballet
In addition to conducting for ballet, James Tuggle conducts a large repertoire which contains almost all standard works from symphonic and operatic repertoire. He is noted in particular for his performances of the German repertoire of the late 19th century, for which he has received acclaim from colleagues and critics. Since 2021 residing in Slovenia.
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