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Conductor

Markus Poschner

German

Markus Poschner is a German conductor, born in Munich, where he also studied. Early in his career he assisted Sir Roger Norrington and Sir Colin Davis, and he worked as first Kapellmeister at the Komische Oper Berlin. From 2007 to 2017 he was general music director in Bremen, at the head of the Bremer Philharmoniker. He became chief conductor of the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana in Lugano in 2015, a post he held for ten years, and of the Bruckner Orchester Linz in 2017. With the Lugano orchestra he recorded the Brahms symphonies in a project called Rereading Brahms, which won an International Classical Music Award in 2018, and with the Linz orchestra and the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra he recorded a complete cycle of Bruckner’s symphonies. He took up the post of chief conductor of the Sinfonieorchester Basel in the 2025/26 season and was appointed chief conductor of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra from 2026/27 and music director of the Utah Symphony from 2027/28. He is also a jazz pianist.

With

Berliner Philharmoniker

Conducts

Upcoming

Sources 3

  1. Markus Poschner and Christian Gerhaher, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Markus Poschner and Christian Gerhaher: Mahler, Diepenbrock and Schubert’s Great C major. Accessed 7 October 2026.
  2. Markus Poschner, Wikipedia Cited in Markus Poschner and Christian Gerhaher: Mahler, Diepenbrock and Schubert’s Great C major. Accessed 7 October 2026.
  3. About Markus Poschner, Markus Poschner Cited in Markus Poschner and Christian Gerhaher: Mahler, Diepenbrock and Schubert’s Great C major. Accessed 7 October 2026.