Since joining the Bruckner Orchestra Linz in 2017 Markus Poschner has garnered much international acclaim for his new and exciting approach to music-making – his Bruckner interpretations are a shining example of this. In 2020 the orchestra and conductor were respectively named Austrian Orchestra and Conductor of the Year. Since winning the German Conductors’ Award in 2004, Poschner has made guest appearances with numerous internationally renowned orchestras, including the Staatskapelle Dresden, Staatskapelle Berlin, Bamberger Symphoniker, Munchner Philharmoniker, Dresdner Philharmonie, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Symphoniker, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest and NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo. He has also worked at the state opera houses of Berlin, Vienna, Hamburg and Stuttgart, and opera houses in Frankfurt and Zurich.
In 2018, Poschner won a prestigious International Classical Music Award (ICMA) for his recording of the complete Brahms symphonies for Sony Classical with the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, with whom he has served as chief conductor since 2015. More recently, his recording of Offenbach’s Maître Péronilla with the Orchestre National de France won the 2021 German Record Critics’ Award.
Having studied at the conservatory in Munich and served as an assistant of Sir Roger Norrington and Sir Colin Davis, Poschner became first Kapellmeister at Komische Oper Berlin in 2006. From 2007 until 2017 he was the general music director of the Bremer Philharmoniker. He was appointed honorary professor by the University of Bremen in July 2010, and by the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz in 2020. Poschner conducted the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra for the first time in 2019 in a guest performance of Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre in Abu Dhabi. In July 2022, he opened the Bayreuth Festival with Tristan und Isolde, conducting the same production at the 2023 festival.
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