Conservatory of Music

Nicolas Waldvogel

Dr. Nicolas Waldvogel will be on sabbatical leave during the fall of 2008.  Stockton Symphony Music Director Peter Jaffe will replace Dr. Waldvogel during his sabbatical.

Nicolas Waldvogel is associate professor of music and director of the University Symphony Orchestra.  He joined the faculty of the University of the Pacific in 2001.  Dr. Waldvogel holds the following degrees: B.A. in music from Harvard University, M.A. in music from Harvard University, M.M. in conducting and the Graduate Performance Diploma in conducting from Peabody Conservatory, and the Ph.D. in music history from Yale University.  His primary conducting teacher was Frederik Prausnitz.

Dr. Waldvogel has been guest conductor of the Orchestra de la Suisse-Romande in Switzerland and the State Philharmonic "Dinu Lipatti" in Romania; conductor of the Orchestre du Conservatoire de Sion, Switzerland; guest conductor of the Conservatoire Superieur, Geneva; conductor of the Chorus Pro Arte, Sion and the Orchestre a Cordes du Pays de Gex in France; and assistant conductor with the Deutsche Oper Berlin.  He has been head of youth activities with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and director of the Sion Conservatory of Music in Switzerland. Dr. Waldvogel has taught in both the Lausanne Conservatory and the Sion Conservatory. He has served as jury president for the Fete Cantonale de Chant in Naters, Switzerland; jury member of the Concours National de Musique de Riddes in Switzerland, and has been president of the Jeunesses Musicales de Geneve.  Dr. Waldvogel is the author of  "For Clara Schumann,"  an orchestration of Brahms's Piano Quintet in F minor.

At the University of the Pacific, Dr. Waldvogel conducts the University Symphony Orchestra and teaches conducting and music history.

Conservatory of Music
University of the Pacific
3601 Pacific Avenue
Stockton, CA 95211
209.946.7429
 Nicolas Waldvogel