Thomas Rösner

Viennese born Thomas Rösner conducted his first orchestral concerts at the age of 14. Since his debut in 1998 with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande at the invitation of Fabio Luisi, he has become one of the most highly profiled Austrian conductors. He was chief conductor of the Biel Symphony Orchestra in Switzerland from 2005 to 2011 and is the founder and artistic director of the Beethoven Philharmonie in Austria. He has enjoyed great success with his musical interpretations of Mozart’s operas in houses such as Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, Quebec Opera Festival, Zurich Opera, Glyndebourne, Rome, Liège and Houston Grand Opera, and a great variety of repertoire at the Semperoper Dresden, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Stuttgart State Opera, Welsh National Opera, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Opéra National de Lyon, Théatre du Châtelet in Paris, the NCPA in Beijing, the New National Theatre Tokyo, Korean National Opera, the Bregenz Festival and the Edinburgh Festival. He has been guest conductor at the Deutsches Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Wiener Symphoniker, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Houston Symphony, Bergen Philharmonic, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Bamberger Symphoniker, Bern Symphony Orchestra, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, the Polish National Radio Symphony, Warsaw Philharmonic, Sinfonia Varsovia, Sofia Philharmonic, the Violons du Roy Montreal, Israel Sinfonietta, Beijing Symphony and the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra. At the spectacular Mörbisch lake festival in Austria 2019 he conducted Lehárs Das Land des Lächelns for capacity audiences of 6000 spectators each night. In 2022 he is invited to conduct Die Lustige Witwe in a new production in Riga. Most recently he conducted three different programmes with Korea’s Daejeon Symphony Orchestra, and will open the new season with a tour with his Beethoven Philharmonic and a performance of Mendelssohn’s great oratorio Paulus in Poland. His discography includes Il trovatore with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, two CDs with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra (the second, entitled ‘Couleurs’ was released in January 2020) and with the Polish National Radio Orchestra with works by Paul Kletzki for Musiques Suisses, and Janacek’s ‘Glagolithic Mass’. His most recent recording, ‘Voices’, featuring music by Beethoven and Mozart on the Odradek label with the Beethoven Philharmonic and Chen Reiss, has received critical acclaim.