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)
Principal Guest Conductor: Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Principal Guest Conductor: BR Münchner Rundfunkorchester
‘Instinctive confidence and zeal of a seasoned maestro’ (The Scotsman), Patrick Hahn is one of the most exciting conductors of his generation.
Opening the 2026/27 season, Patrick Hahn conducts Barrie Kosky’s production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at Wiener Staatsoper. New operatic productions this season also include Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges at Oper Frankfurt, directed by Damiano Michieletto, and Wagner’s Rienzi at Semperoper Dresden, directed by Eva-Maria Höckmayr. He also returns to New National Theatre Tokyo for Jonathan Miller’s revival of Richard Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier.
Maintaining an equally distinguished presence in both opera and symphonic concerts, Patrick Hahn’s 2026/27 concert engagements include debut appearances with Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, performances of Mahler’s Symphony No.9 with Berner Symphonieorchester and Academy of St Martin in the Fields and return invitations from Wiener Symphoniker and RAI Torino with Jan Lisiecki. He also returns to Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Münchner Rundfunkorchester as their Principal Guest Conductor. Choral performances this season include Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in Munich.
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Highlights of recent seasons include engagements with Münchner Philharmoniker, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and London Philharmonic Orchestra, alongside opera productions at Opernhaus Zürich, Bayerische Staatsoper and Dutch National Opera.
Patrick Hahn’s highly successful tenure as General Music Director in Wuppertal made a lasting impact over five seasons. He concluded his directorship with concert performances of Wagner’s monumental Ring cycle across the 2025/26 season, featuring an internationally acclaimed cast including Catherine Foster, Benjamin Bruns, Michael Kupfer-Radecky and Karen Cargill.
His critically acclaimed discography includes an all-Gottfried von Einem album with Royal Scottish National Orchestra on Linn Records, and Ethel Smyth’s Der Wald with Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal for cpo, marking the opera’s first-ever recording in its original German. Recordings of Zemlinsky’s Eine florentinische Tragödie and Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis with Münchner Rundfunkorchester have been released on the BR Klassik label.
Alongside his classical career, Patrick Hahn performs the cabaret songs of Austrian satirist and composer Georg Kreisler, accompanying himself at the piano. An accomplished jazz pianist, he has received awards from the Chicago Jazz Festival and the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse, where he was honoured with the Outstanding Soloist Award as Best Jazz Pianist at the 37th annual jazz festival.
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“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.”




































