Pure genius […] Christoph Koncz fascinates us with his incredible presence, sending impulses in all directions, communicating perfectly with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and combining virtuosity with tremendous expression.
DER BUND (SWITZERLAND)
The young Austrian conductor Christoph Koncz has already established himself as one of the outstanding musicians of his generation, performing worldwide with orchestras such as the Cleveland Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Wiener Symphoniker, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra London, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal and Hong Kong Philharmonic as well as at opera houses such as the Opernhaus Zürich, National Theatre Prague, Teatro Real Madrid and Wiener Staatsoper.
During the upcoming season, Christoph Koncz will appear for the first time with the Japan Philharmonic, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Boston Baroque, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Musikkollegium Winterthur and Dresdner Philharmonie. He will return among others to the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, Tampere Philharmonic and Stuttgarter Philharmoniker. Additionally he will perform at the Festival de Pâques d'Aix-en-Provence, Müpa Budapest and Wiener Konzerthaus. He will conduct new productions of Lohengrin at the Landestheater Linz and Ariadne auf Naxos at the Opéra national du Rhin Strasbourg as well as a performance series of Le nozze di Figaro at the Semperoper Dresden.
Christoph Koncz will be Chief Conductor of the Bruckner Orchester Linz and Music Director of the Landestheater Linz from September 2027 onwards. He has been Music Director of the Orchestre National de Mulhouse since 2023 and Chief Conductor of the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein since 2019. He has also been appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the renowned French period instrument ensemble Les Musiciens du Louvre and enjoys a close partnership with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra. His conducting debut at the 2013 Salzburg Mozartwoche was followed by concerts at such prestigious venues as the Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg and Munich Philharmonie, Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus, KKL Lucerne and Concertgebouw Amsterdam as well as at the Salzburg Festival.
Born 1987 in Konstanz into an Austrian-Hungarian family of musicians, Christoph Koncz received his first violin lessons at the age of four. Only two years later he entered the Vienna University of Music, where he also enrolled in the conducting class of Mark Stringer in 2005. Master classes with Daniel Barenboim, Daniel Harding and David Zinman further enriched his musical education. At the age of just nine, he received worldwide acclaim for starring as child prodigy Kaspar Weiss in the Canadian feature film The Red Violin, which won an Academy Award for Best Original Score. In 2008, at the age of twenty, Christoph Koncz was appointed principal second violin of the Vienna Philharmonic, a position he has held until 2023.
Christoph Koncz is particularly noted for his interpretations of the works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His recording of the Complete Violin Concertos as soloist and conductor with Les Musiciens du Louvre was released by Sony Classical in 2020 under the title Mozart's Violin and caused an international sensation for being the first recording of these famous works on the composer's original Baroque violin.
— Concert season 2026/27
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