Brian Barker

Brian Barker was born in Ottawa, Canada, in 1976, studying first in his hometown and then with Pierre Béluse in Montréal. In 2002 he moved to Berlin to take lessons from Rainer Seegers of the Berlin Philharmonic. Working with Seegers and later also with Marek Stefula of the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig influenced him profoundly. After engagements at the Theater des Westens in Berlin and at the Staatskapelle Schwerin, Brian Barker joined the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra in 2006. During the 2014/15 season he was a guest at La Scala in Milan. Brian Barker teaches at the Hamburg Academy of Music and Theatre and also at the Conservatorio Guido Cantelli in Novara near Milan. Brian Barker has worked with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Bernard Haitink, Zubin Mehta, Kirill Petrenko, Daniele Gatti, Paavo Järvi, Riccardo Chailly, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Herbert Blomstedt.