Orchestra Conductor
The Symphony Orchestra of Santa Cruz started up as a Youth Orchestra and became with in few years a semi professional Orchetras performing several Concerts Seasons during a year.
In 2003 Roland Schlieder was invited
to Santa Cruz de la Sierra to form a Youth Symhony Orchestra; which would be
the first orchestra of this type in the history of the city. Thus
with high expectation, enthusiasm and a fantastic support of the
local media, Roland Schlieder formed this new orchestra, and gave
his first performance in September 2003, during the festivities of
the foundation of the city of Santa Cruz.
Soon after Roland Schlieder began working with international
musicians who visited Santa Cruz and worked together with the
young musicians of the orchestra. He founded an Orchestra Academy
in order to train young musicians in all important instruments.
Through his intensive fundraising activity he could win the support
of several mayor oil companies and also de Inter-American
Development Bank in Washington DC, all of them together supported
the education and development of this young orchestra. His leading
role in the organization of the Board of Directors and support in
all arts management areas of the organization made it possible to
grow fast and steady, thus securing the future of the orchestra.
During the 5 concert seasons every year Schlieder invited
musicians from Barra Mansa/Brasil in order to support weak
sections an teach the local young musicians. This partnership led
to a great number of exchange opporunities for young brasilian
musicians, and made every concert season very exciting for the
local young musicians. After few years the Youth Symphony
Orchestra achieved a well respected level of musicianship, which
led to international invitations from Colombia and Chile. During
the International Orchestra Festival in San Fernando/Chile the
Orchestra could demonstrate its high level of performance performing
a complex repertoire with ease and enthusiasm. Roland Schlieder
supported the orchestra and made it possible for few outstanding
young musicians to study in the USA and earn their Maester's
Degree. Over 20 concerts a year, including concerts in other
cities like La Paz or Tarija, established the orchestra as the
leading young orchestra in Bolivia.
In 2011 Roland Schlieder decided to leave the orchestra and gave
way to young conductors in order to have the oportunity to gain
experience in the challenging field of the arts in Bolivia.
Roland Schlieder returned to his main activity as a classical
guitar performer, and focused his energy in the development of the
new technical apprach "Control Technique" and the plublication of
his book "Control Technique - Hand Mechanics".
Choir Conductor
During his time as a Artistic Director of the Youth Symphony Orchestra, Roland Schlieder supported also the development of the choirs and singers in the city. He perfromed several master works for choir and orchestra, and for this he invited always great teachers and conductors to work with the young singers. Maestro Eric Stark from the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir/USA conducted Mozart's Requiem and Charles Houmard visited Santa Cruz in order to teach singers and choir conductors. Maestro Houmard's visit was funded by the US Fulbright Scholarship, in order to support the development of the choirs and Roland Schlieders work in Santa Cruz.
His interpretations are vivid and always with surprises, like he would be recreating the work spontaneously.
Conductor Shalev Ad El
In his freetime Roland Schlieder conducts the Jazz Choir of the German School of Santa Cruz, which is one of the leading youth choirs in the nation. He won the State Youth Choir Competition 2018, and also the National Choir Competition, 2018. Working with young musicians is a challange, and demands more detailled work in order to push the young talent in growing and recognizing their own talent, and reaching a high level of performance quality.
