MARKUS POSCHNER

Chief Conductor Bruckner Orchester Linz

Since the beginning of his tenure as chief conductor of the Bruckner Orchestra Linz in 2017, Markus Poschner and this outstanding Austrian orchestra have been enchanting audiences and international reviewers alike. Poschner’s vision is to forge a path all their own in the field of Bruckner interpretation. One highlight on this path to date was receiving the distinctions “Orchestra of the Year” and “Conductor of the Year” in Austria in 2020. Since winning the German Conductors Award in 2004, Poschner has been guest-conducting regularly at all the leading orchestras and opera houses of the classical music world, including the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Bamberg Symphony, the Munich Philharmonic, Dresden Philharmonic, Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin, RSB Berlin and RSO Vienna, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, the Netherlands Philharmonic, the NHK Tokyo and the Berlin State Opera, as well as the Hamburg State Opera, Frankfurt Opera, Stuttgart State Opera and Zurich Opera House. Together with the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, whose chief conductor Markus Poschner has also been since 2015, he won the coveted International Classical Music Award (ICMA) in 2018 for their cycle of Brahms symphonies released by Sony Classical. Together with the Orchestre National de France, Poschner was recently awarded the annual German Record Critics’ Award for 2021 for their production of Offenbach’s Maître Péronilla. After studying in Munich and assisting Sir Roger Norrington and Sir Colin Davis, Poschner first became principal kapellmeister at the Komische Oper in Berlin. From 2007 to 2017 he was general music director at the Bremen Philharmonic. In July 2010 the Bremen University appointed him an honorary professor, as did the Anton Bruckner University in Linz in 2020. He first conducted the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra in 2019 during its extraordinary guest appearance in Abu Dhabi with Wagner’s Walküre.


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