Gabriel Venzago
Martin Horbach
Chief Conductor and Artistic Director: Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz
Since his appointment as Chief Conductor of Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz in January 2023, Gabriel Venzago has exceeded expectations by launching new and diverse concert series including a new matinee format, a series of music by classical composers with Mozart at its core, and the founding of the “Junge Bodensee Philharmonie”. Guest engagements with orchestras such as Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra and his return to Jena Philharmonic Orchestra and Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen, amongst others, lead him all over Europe and beyond.
Until the end of season 2022/23 he held the position of First Kapellmeister at Salzburg Landestheater where he gathered vast experience in opera with new productions of Mozart’s Magic Flute, Bizet’s Carmen, experimental theatre productions and the world premiere of the opera Cinderella by the celebrated British composer Alma Deutscher. In 2021, Gabriel Venzago caused a stir when he jumped in at a new production of Idomeneo at the Bavarian State Opera and attracted great attention and media response with the musical direction of the opera Zaide. Eine Flucht, involving an integrative process with young refugees. As guest conductor he has worked with Brandenburger Symphoniker, Darmstadt State Orchestra, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie and Württemberg Philharmonic Orchestra Reutlingen.
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Gabriel Venzago first began his career as a répétiteur, conductor and assistant to general music director Florian Ziemen at the Theater für Niedersachsen Hildesheim, then moved to the Mecklenburg State Theatre Schwerin as Kapellmeister. Here he was responsible, amongst other things, for the new productions of Neues vom Tage by Paul Hindemith. In addition, he conducted symphonic concerts and took on various post-production conducting duties for all current productions.
The Heidelberg born conductor studied at the University of Music and Theatre in Munich and at the State University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart. While still a student, he worked as a répétiteur and musical assistant at the Baden-Baden Easter Festival, received a scholarship from the Deutsche Bank Foundation “Akademie Musiktheater heute” and conducted his first opera performances at the Wilhelma Theatre in Stuttgart. Since 2017, he has been supported by the Dirigentenforum des Deutschen Musikrats in the programme “Maestros von morgen”.
