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Patrick Hahn

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“Patrick Hahn’s conducting is a pleasure as he shows passion, euphoria & a precision that suited the works grandeur”
(Tiroler Tageszeitung, April 2017)

General Music Director: Sinfonieorchester und Oper Wuppertal
Principal Guest Conductor and Artistic Advisor: Borusan İstanbul Philharmonic Orchestra (BIPO)
Principal Guest Conductor: Münchner Rundfunkorchester

General Music Director of Sinfonieorchester und Oper Wuppertal and Principal Guest Conductor of Münchner Rundfunkorchester of the Bayerischer Rundfunk and Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, Patrick Hahn is one of the most sought after and exciting conductors of his generation.

In his second season in Wuppertal, Patrick Hahn welcomes soloists Martin Grubinger, Alexey Volodin, Angela Hewitt, Leia Zhu, Marlis Petersen, Bo Skovhus and Benjamin Bruns in programmes ranging from a concert version of Wagner’s Walküre to B. A. Zimmermann’s Ich wandte mich und sah an alles Unrecht, das geschah unter der Sonne. The operas this season include F. Lehar’s Die lustige Witwe, Verdi’s Rigoletto and Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro.

After successful concerts, productions and recordings in his first season as Principal Guest Conductor in 2021/22, which included the highlight acclaimed recording of Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis released on BR-Klassik label, Patrick Hahn continues to work on exciting programmes with Münchner Rundfunkorchester in the 2022/23 season, which includes Alexander von Zemlinsky’s A Florentine Tragedy, a walk through the Danube metropolis under the motto Wien, Wien, nur Du allein and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Requiem in the orchestra’s Paradisi gloria series.

In his last season as Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra’s Principal Guest Conductor, Patrick Hahn joins Olga Scheps in the season opening concert of the Is Sanat Hall on 27 October 2022. Later in the season he presents programmes with Martin Grubinger and Marlis Petersen including Prokofiev’s Symphony No.5, Berg’s Seven Early Songs as well as Florent Schmitt’s La Tragédie de Salomé.

As a guest conductor in the 2022/23 season, Patrick Hahn makes his first appearances at Oper Frankfurt with La Cenerentola, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Bamberger Symphoniker as well as Tanztheater Pina Bausch in The Rite of Spring. Last seasons’ highlights include a new production of Der Freischütz by Krill Serebrennikow at Dutch National Opera with Concertgebouworkest, a residency at Kissinger Sommer Festival with Wiener Symphoniker, his much-acclaimed new production of Tannhäuser at Oper Wuppertal as well as concerts with Münchner Philharmoniker and Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. Within the field of contemporary music, he has a close relationship with Klangforum Wien.

Aside from his work in classical music, Patrick Hahn accompanies himself on the piano singing cabaret-songs by the Austrian satirist and composer Georg Kreisler. In Kreisler’s centenary year in 2022, Patrick performs his programme Weil ich unmusikalisch bin at Konzerthaus Wien, Bayer Kultur stARTfestival, Oper Wuppertal as well as in Neuss and Mönchengladbach. As a jazz pianist, he received awards from the Chicago Jazz Festival and the ‘Outstanding Soloist Award’ from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse as the best jazz pianist of the 37^th Annual Jazz Festival.

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R. Strauss “An Alpine Symphony” © Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal

Bernd Alois Zimmermann “Giostra Genovese” © Wiener Symphoniker

Munich Philharmonic, Mozart: Sinfonie Concertante for 4 Winds and Orchestra KV 297b © Münchner Philharmoniker

Munich Philharmonic, C. Ives: Symphony No. 2 © Münchner Philharmoniker

Klangforum Wien, October 2020 “Happiness Seriousness – A Counterpoint” © Klangforum Wien

Dvorak: Symphony no.9, 4th movement (Excerpt) © Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Der BR-Chor probt mit Patrick Hahn © Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

C. Ives: The Unanswered Question © BR Munich Radio Orchestra

SINGULARITY Teaser © BayerischeStaatsoper

Orff: Carmina Burana - Styriarte 2021 © FROM THE HOUSE STYRIARTE

“He’s only 27, but conducts with the instinctive confidence and zeal of a seasoned maestro.”

The Scotsman, November 2022

“With Hahn, the repertoire contrast resulted in a deeply sharp interpretation in which each vocal group was finely worked out as to diffuse a great emotional warmth.”

(David Renke, 17 September 2020, Süddeutsche Zeitung)

“Hahn was able to rely on the excellent musicians of the Camerata Salzburg. Everything worked successfully, from the soloistic to the ensemble performance. Smallest gestures were enough — ensemble and conductor understood each other perfectly. Together they intensified the music, dancing, stirring and rebelliousness — an enthralling interpretation that made Bartók’s Divertimento the central work of the evening.”

(Wolfgang Otter, Tiroler Tageszeitung, July 2019)

“The young director Patrick Hahn has a fantastic comic verve and manages to get particular sounds from the musicians: Rossini’s famous patterns and crescendos are transformed into rumbles, races, sighs and threats… Patrick Hahn not only guides the Tiroler Festspiele orchestra with grace, precision and a great sense of humour, but accompanies the recitatives from the harpsichord in the same style as in Rossini’s time.”

(L'Ape Musicale, January 2019)

“The most surprising debut, however, was that of the very young conductor Patrick Hahn (born 1995), who, with the orchestra of the Tiroler Festspiele, performed a thrilling Rossini packed with glittering ensembles and soulful melodies: Hahn’s naturalness, paired with artistic solemnity, elevated the simple farce “L’occasione fa il ladro” (Opportunity Makes the Thief) almost right next to Rossini’s main works.”

(Neue Musik Zeitung, NMZ , January 2019)

“The orchestra plays precisely […] in the lively tempo of the outstandingly good conductor Patrick Hahn, who does his job so well and directs the overall event so cleanly that one actually would like to see him occupied more often at the festival. Not only he holds everything together in a wonderful way, but also accompanies the recitatives in a highly eloquent and witty way.”

(Marfa, December 2018)

“To observe Patrick Hahn’s conducting is a pleasure as he shows passion and euphoria and a precision that suited the works grandeur. In the first three movements Hahn is able to carve out a mixture of ceremonial song of praise and sensitive melancholy through his sensitive conducting. The meaning of the Lobgesang was wonderfully developed from the orchestra and the Chorakademie der Tiroler Festspiele up to the fulminant final chorus.”

(Tiroler Tageszeitung, April 2017)