JOCHEN RIEDER is a regular guest in many of the world’s leading opera houses and concert halls, such as the Teatro alla Scala, Carnegie Hall and Frankfurt’s Alte Oper, collaborating with some of today’s most admired soloists and orchestras. An enthusiastic artist widely recognized especially for his work with German and Italian repertoire, Maestro Rieder has lead critically acclaimed performances and CD productions across the world.
Over the years a long and intense musical partnership has become established with tenor Jonas Kaufmann. Together, they have performed at the Barbican Centre and the Royal Festival Hall in London, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Philharmonie of Munich, the Stuttgart Liederhalle, Baden-Baden’s Festspielhaus and Vienna’s Konzerthaus, the KKL Lucerne, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, Essen Philharmonic Hall, Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Peralada Festival, Seoul Arts Center in South Korea, Menuhin-Festival Gstaad, the Royal Opera House Muscat/Oman, the Konzerthaus Dortmund, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Sydney Opera House/Australia, the Movistar Arena Santiago de Chile/South America, Teatro Real Madrid, Schlossfestspiele Regensburg, the Tchaikovsky Conservatory Moscow, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Osaka Festival Hall, the Suntory-Hall Tokyo, the Waldbühne Berlin, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Carnegie Hall New York, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and the Arena di Verona.
Besides concerts all over the world, Jochen Rieder and Jonas Kaufmann have made several recordings together, released by SONY: 2014 with a Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin CD and DVD with operetta arias (awarded with Platinum and Gold and the Echo-Klassik 2015); 2015 the DVD of the Puccini-concert at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, which has also been screened in many cinemas; 2016 the DVD Dolce Vita – My Italy, accompanied by the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino; in 2018 CD and DVD An Italian Night, from the Waldbühne Berlin, again with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and awarded with the OPUS KLASSIK 2019. Further recordings have been in 2020 Mein Wien and It’s Christmas and in 2023 – The Sound of Movies.
Another recording by Rieder of Mahler’s Orchestral Songs with Swedish baritone Peter Mattei and the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra was released in 2015 by NAXOS. He has recently conducted opera performances in Cape Town/South Africa, at the Hessisches Staatsorchester Wiesbaden and Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, as well as concerts with Russian soprano Aida Garifullina in Vienna, Prague and Moscow, with violinist Daniel Röhn at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and the Prinzregententheater in Munich, as well as a tour with Mahler’s The Song of the Earth with the Sinfonieorchester Basel.
He has conducted many renowned orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala Milano, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin, Bruckner Orchestra Linz, RAI Symphony Orchestra, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Residentie Orkest The Hague and BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Conductor Jochen Rieder was born in the German region of Rhineland-Palatinate. He has followed a classic Kapellmeister career path that has taken him from conducting positions in Karlsruhe via Bremen to the Zurich Opera House.