Markus Poschner
Since receiving the German Conductors’ Award, Markus Poschner has been a regular guest with many of the world’s leading orchestras and opera houses, including the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, the SWR Symphony Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, NHK Tokyo, the state operas of Berlin, Vienna, Munich and Hamburg, as well as Zurich Opera.
In 2022 he opened the Bayreuth Festival with a new production of Tristan und Isolde, which he also conducted in 2023.
Beginning with the 2026/27 season, the Munich-born conductor will assume the position of Chief Conductor of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Already in the 2025/26 season he will take up the post of Chief Conductor of the Sinfonieorchester Basel, and starting in 2027/28 he will additionally become Music Director of the Utah Symphony Orchestra.
From 2015 to 2025 he served as Chief Conductor of the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, with which he won the prestigious International Classical Music Award in 2018 for the complete recording of the Brahms symphonies, and again in 2025 for his Hindemith/Schnittke recording.
For the complete recording of all Bruckner symphonies with the Bruckner Orchester Linz, whose Chief Conductor he has been since 2017, and the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, he received the Special Achievement Award of the jury of the International Classical Music Awards in 2024. Together with the Bruckner Orchester Linz he was also honoured at the 2020 Austrian Music Theatre Awards with the distinctions Orchestra of the Year and Conductor of the Year.
Performances with Markus Poschner
with Jonas Kaufmann, Diana Damrau, Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Daria Sushkova, Jörg Schneider, Ilia Staple, Michael Niavarani, Conductor: Markus Poschner
Die Fledermaus
Cast on Wednesday 31. December 2025
with Matthäus Schmidlechner, Erica Eloff, Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Daria Sushkova, Jörg Schneider, Ilia Staple, Michael Niavarani, Conductor: Markus Poschner
Die Fledermaus
Cast on Thursday 1. January 2026
with Jonas Kaufmann, Diana Damrau, Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Daria Sushkova, Jörg Schneider, Ilia Staple, Michael Niavarani, Conductor: Markus Poschner
Die Fledermaus
Cast on Saturday 3. January 2026
with Jonas Kaufmann, Diana Damrau, Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Daria Sushkova, Jörg Schneider, Ilia Staple, Michael Niavarani, Conductor: Markus Poschner
Die Fledermaus
Cast on Tuesday 6. January 2026