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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: Münchner Rundfunkorchester
Principal Guest Conductor: Royal Scottish National Orchestra (from 2024/25)
Patrick Hahn is one of the most sought-after and exciting conductors of his generation. In his fourth season in Wuppertal, Patrick Hahn’s symphonic and choral programmes include Mahler’s Symphony No.5, Bruckner’s Symphony No.5, and Messiaen’s Turangalila, to name but a few. The operas there this season include R. Strauss’ Salome and Mozart’s Don Giovanni.
In his first season as Principal Guest Conductor at the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Patrick Hahn conducts performances of Dvorak’s Symphony No.9 and Mozart’s Requiem, as well as leading the orchestra on a tour of China.
As a guest conductor in the 2024/25 season, Patrick Hahn makes his first appearances at hr-Sinfonieorchester, Brussels Philharmonic with Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Anastasia Kobekina, RAI with Truls Mork, Semperoper Dresden conducting R. Strauss’ Intermezzo and Staatsoper Hamburg with Wagner’s Parsifal. Return visits include Deutsche Symphony Orchester Berlin with Gabriela Montero, Wiener Symphoniker and Tonhalle Orhestra Zürich. He will also take part in the Johann Strauss 2025 celebration in Vienna, celebrating the 200th anniversary by conducting a concert performance of Der Karneval in Rom.
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Previous seasons’ highlights include his successful debut at Zürich Opera House with Barrie Kosky’s new production of Die lustige Witwe and New National Theatre Tokyo with Der Fledermaus as well as debuts with Bamberg Symphony, alongside Sol Gabetta, and SWR with Istvan Vardai. Patrick Hahn enjoys a regular relationship with Klangforum Wien and Wiener Symphoniker, most recently conducting Schoenberg’s Ertwartung with Dorothea Röschmann at the Vienna Musikverein. Patrick has acted as Principal Guest Conductor and Artistic Advisor for Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic between 2021/23.
Patrick Hahn’s has conducted many cornerstones of the repertoire in his time in Wuppertal, such as R. Strauss’ Eine Alpensinfonie, Bruckner’s Symphony No.4 and No.9, Mahler’s Symphony No.1 and No.2, Beethoven’s Symphony No.9, Wagner/Maazel’s Ring without Words, Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde and Tannhauser, Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, as well as rarely performed gems such as Charles Ives’ Symphony No.2, von Einem’s Capriccio, Op.2.
Patrick Hahn and Münchner Rundfunkorchester’s exploration and recordings of rarely performed repertoire such as Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis and Alexander Zemlinsky’s Eine Florentinische Tragoedie have received critical acclaim. Other recordings include Alpha label’s Britten and Bruch’s Violin Concertos with Kerson Leong and Philharmonia Orchestra and Beethoven’s Piano Concertos No.1 and 2 with Olivier Cave and Kammerakademie Potsdam.
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. 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 37th Annual Jazz Festival.
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Season Highlights
Flagey
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IGOR STRAVINSKY: Concerto for Violin in D
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Suite No. 5 for Cello Solo in C minor, BWV 1011
OLIVIER MESSIAEN: Les Offrandes oubliees
Patricia Kopatchinskaja: A Play (for violin, cello and orchestra)
Usher Hall
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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Elegischer Gesang Op.118
ALBAN BERG: Violin Concerto (1935) (WoO)
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Requiem, K626
Carolin Widmann - Violin
Mhairi Lawson - Soprano
Hannah Hipp - Mezzo-soprano
Jamie MacDougall - Tenor
Daniel Okulitch - Bass-baritone
Prinzregententheater
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH: Chamber Symphony, Op. 49a
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH: Jewish Folk Poetry, Op. 79
Historische Stadthalle Wuppertal
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OLIVIER MESSIAEN: Turangalila Symphony
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Herz Jesu Kirche
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MICHAEL TIPPETT: A Child of Our Time
Stefaniensaal
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ANTON BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 7
Benedictine Monastery St. Paul
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ANTON BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 7
“He’s only 27, but conducts with the instinctive confidence and zeal of a seasoned maestro.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”