Markus Poschner
Conductor
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Munich born Markus Poschner, winner of the 2004 German Conducting Prize, is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut in 2015/16 with a staged production of Handel's Messiah, for this new production (and first performances in Frankfurt) of Zemlinsky's rarely performed Traumgörge / George the Dreamer. Since taking up the post of Chief Conductor of the Bruckner Orchester in Linz in 2017 he and this top Austrian group of musicians have received praise from the public and international press, and were voted Austria's »Orchestra of the year« and »Conductor of the Year« in 2020. This sought-after musician is a regular guest with leading orchestras and opera companies, including the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Bamberg Symphony, the Munich and Dresden philharmonics, the Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin, RSB Berlin, the Vienna RSO and Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, Netherlands Philharmonic & NHK Tokyo, the Berlin, Hamburg and Stuttgart state operas and Opera Zürich. He and the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, he's been their Chief Conductor since 2015, won the sought-after »International Classical Music Award 2018« (ICMA) for a recording of Brahms' symphonies, released by SonyClassical, and he and the Orchestre National de France were recently awarded the 2021 »German Recordings Critics Prize« for Offenbach's Maître Péronilla. After studying in Munich he became 1st Kapellmeister at the Komische Oper Berlin. He was General Music Director of the Bremen Philharmonic from 2007 - 2017 and made an honorary professor at Bremen University in 2010 and Anton Bruckner University in Linz in 2020. He conducted the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra for the first time in 2019, with Die Walküre in Abu-Dhabi, and opened the last two festivals in Bayreuth with Tristan und Isolde. Future plans include concerts in Freiburg, Munich, Lugano and Linz and Tosca at the Staatsoper in Stuttgart.