Sylvia Caduff

Born

1937-01-07

Birthplace

Chur, Graubünden, Switzerland

Biography

Sylvia Caduff is a Swiss orchestral conductor. In the 1960s she was assistant to Leonard Bernstein at the New York Philharmonic, one of the first women to conduct this orchestra. In the late 1970s she became the first woman to hold a post of principal conductor (Chefdirigentin) for a German orchestra, when she took up a post in Solingen.