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The conductor Ernest Hoetzl (b. 1959) is often called the Austrian ambassador of music.  In an interview he says: For me, music is a bridge to people… And if you know the language of music, you can communicate with your audience on a metaphorical level, which is a great blessing. The maestro has conducted more than 80 orchestras around the world at important centres of the arts such as the Musikverein in Vienna, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Rudolfinum – Prague, the Moscow Conservatory and the Moscow Philharmonic, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Bregenz Festival, also at the Teatro Amazonas in Manaus and the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai. Among the renowned orchestras he has conducted are: Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra and Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Budapest MAV Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tel Aviv Soloists, Tchaikovsky Moscow Orchestra, Yuri Bashmet’s New Russia Orchestra, Tokyo New City Orchestra ensemble, Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Philharmonic Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Penang Festival Orchestra (Malaysia), Adana State Symphony Orchestra (Turkey), Philharmonic Orchestra of the Philippines, Tehran Chamber Orchestra, Monterrey Symphony Orchestra (Mexico), Mumbai Chamber Orchestra, Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra, etc. He was the first Western musician to work with symphony orchestras of North and South Korea, and toured post-revolutionary Iran.

Alongside his conducting appearances on international stages, Ernest Hoetzl is a pianist and timbalist, professor of Music History at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. He is chief conductor of the EuroSymphony SFK and artistic director of the Musikverein-Kernten and the International Wörthersee Music Scholarship Competition.

He had an affinity for ancient cultures from an early age and studied classical philology at the University of Graz. He studied music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. He majored conducting with Milan Horvath. He specialized in piano pedagogy at the University of Texas at Austin. Hoetzl holds a PhD in philosophy. His book A History of Music Today? An Attempt of Perspective” was published in 1996 in Vienna. He is a polyglot, fluent in 9 languages along with his native German: English, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, also Latin and Ancient Greek.

He has been awarded high honors for his art: Gold  Merit  Republic of  Austria (2008), Great Merit  Province of Carinthia (2009), the Paul Harris Fellow with Sapphire Rotary International  (2012), the Gold Merit  Province of Styria (2014), the Cross of Honor for Science and Art (2016), the Gold Medal of Klagenfurt (2019), etc.

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