Claus Efland is one of the most widely-respected Danish conductors of his generation. Born in 1974, he studied with John Carewe and Neil Thomson at the Royal College of Music and later at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris with Janós Fürst .
He has conducted the London Symphony Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden and the Orquesta Filharmonica de Mexico City. Since 2005 he has worked with all major Danish symphony orchestras including the Odense Symphony Orchestra, Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, South Jutland Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Danish Orchestra. Furthermore he works regularly with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Riga Sinfonietta, the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg, Brandenburger Symphoniker and the Wüttembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn. In 2010 he toured with the Kammerakademie Potsdam and the oboist Albrecht Mayer and won great critical acclaim.
As an opera conductor, Claus has led productions at world-renowned opera houses such as Staatsoper unter den Linden in Berlin, Komische Oper Berlin, Teatro dellOpera in Rome and Teatro Lirico Sperimentale at the world famous classical music festival in Spoleto.
Claus has received numerous awards including the Theodore Stier Prize for Conducting
and the prestigious Scandinavian Léonie Sonning Award. He was a prizewinner in the
Donatella Flick Conducting Competition in London.
Since 2008 Claus has been the Musical Director of the Bardi Symphony Orchestra.
