Patrick Hahn

“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: BR Münchner Rundfunkorchester
Principal Guest Conductor: Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Patrick Hahn is one of the most sought after and exciting conductors of his generation. In his last season as General Music Director in Wuppertal, Patrick Hahn presents Wagner’s monumental Ring cycle in concert across the season with an internationally renowned cast featuring Catherine Foster, Benjamin Bruns, Michael Kupfer-Radecky and Karen Cargill amongst others.

As a guest conductor in the 2025/26 season, Patrick Hahn makes his first appearances at Gewandhausorchester Leipzig with Sol Gabetta, Staatskapelle Dresden, WDR Sinfonieorchester with Ilya Gringolts and Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg with Timothy Ridout. Return visits include Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin with Fazil Say on a five-concert tour in China. Opera highlights include his debut at Deutsche Oper Berlin with Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus, Richard Strauss’ Intermezzo at Semperoper Dresden, and Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at Bayerische Staatsoper.

Previous seasons’ highlights include his first appearances at hr-Sinfonieorchester, Brussels Philharmonic with Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Anastasia Kobekina, RAI with Truls Mørk, and Staatsoper Hamburg with Wagner’s Parsifal. Successful return visits include Wiener Symphoniker in Vienna and on tour and Tonhalle Orchester Zürich.

Patrick Hahn 1 (c) C&G Pictures — Patrick Hahn © C&G Pictures

In his second season as Principal Guest Conductor at the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Patrick Hahn is joined by Frank Dupree with his jazz trio for Gershwin’s Concerto in F in a programme which also sees Patrick Hahn on the piano for Antheil’s A Jazz Symphony. His other programmes include Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 and Elgar’s Cello Concerto with Kian Soltani alongside Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem and Scriabin’s Poem of Ecstasy. His collaboration with Münchner Rundfunkorchester continues with an all-Johann Strauss programme and Hans Werner Henze’s Requiem.

CD releases this season include an all-Gottfried von Einem album with Royal Scottish National Orchestra on Linn Records and Ethel Smyth’s opera Der Wald with Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal on the CPO label, marking the first time Der Wald is recorded in its original German language.

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 37^th Annual Jazz Festival.

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Season Highlights

March 2025

Flagey

Repertoire:

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)

April 2025

Usher Hall

Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Repertoire:

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Elegischer Gesang Op.118

ALBAN BERG: Violin Concerto (1935) (WoO)

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Requiem, K626

Soloists:

Carolin Widmann - Violin

Mhairi Lawson - Soprano

Hannah Hipp - Mezzo-soprano

Jamie MacDougall - Tenor

Daniel Okulitch - Bass-baritone

May 2025

Prinzregententheater

Bayerischer Rundfunk / Münchner Rundfunkorchester

Repertoire:

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH: Chamber Symphony, Op. 49a

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH: Jewish Folk Poetry, Op. 79

June 2025

Historische Stadthalle Wuppertal

Wuppertaler Bühnen und Sinfonieorchester

Repertoire:

OLIVIER MESSIAEN: Turangalila Symphony

June 2025

Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra

July 2025

Herz Jesu Kirche

Bayerischer Rundfunk / Münchner Rundfunkorchester

Repertoire:

MICHAEL TIPPETT: A Child of Our Time

July 2025

Stefaniensaal

Repertoire:

ANTON BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 7

“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)