Jun Märkl is a highly respected interpreter of core Germanic repertoire, and is known for his refined and idiomatic explorations of the French Impressionists. He serves as music director of the Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra, and principal guest conductor of the Residentie Orkest The Hague as well as the Oregon Symphony. He was also recently appointed artistic advisor of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.
His long-standing relationships with the state operas of Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Semperoper Dresden and the Metropolitan Opera have been complemented by his music directorships of the Orchestre National de Lyon, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Basque National Orchestra. He also guest conducts leading orchestras in North and South America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Europe.
Among the over 50 albums in his discography are the complete Schumann symphonies with the NHK Symphony Orchestra and Mendelssohn and Wagner with the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra. He also recorded works by Ravel, Messiaen, and a highly acclaimed Debussy series with the Orchestre National de Lyon for Naxos. He is currently working on a cycle of works by Saint-Saëns, R. Strauss and Toshio Hosokawa.
Born in Munich, Märkl won the Deutscher Musikrat conducting competition in 1986 and studied at Tanglewood with Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa. Soon after he appeared in opera houses throughout Europe, followed by his first music directorships at the Staatstheater Saarbrücken and the Nationaltheater Mannheim. He was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2012 by the French government.
For more information, visit www.junmarkl.com.
A MAN OF THE WORLD – Jeremy Siepmann talks to the conductor Jun Märkl