Christoph Koncz
Conductor
The Austrian conductor Christoph Koncz is one of the most outstanding musicians of his generation and appears worldwide with renowned orchestras such as the Cleveland Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Orchestre, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. He also works regularly at tradition-rich opera houses, including the Zurich Opera House, the Prague National Theatre, the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Vienna State Opera.
In the 2026/27 season Christoph Koncz will conduct orchestras including the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Baroque, the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and the Dresden Philharmonic. He will also appear at the Festival de Pâques in Aix-en-Provence, Müpa in Budapest and the Vienna Konzerthaus. As an opera conductor he will conduct new productions of Lohengrin at the Linz Landestheater and Ariadne auf Naxos at the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg, along with a new production of Le nozze di Figaro at the Semperoper Dresden.
From September 2027 Christoph Koncz will be chief conductor of the Bruckner Orchestra Linz and music director of the Linz Landestheater. Since 2023 he has been music director of the Orchestre National de Mulhouse. Since 2019 he has been chief conductor of the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein. He was also appointed principal guest conductor of Les Musiciens du Louvre.
Christoph Koncz was born in Konstanz in 1987, the youngest son in an Austrian-Hungarian family of musicians, and at the age of four received his first violin lessons. Just two years later he entered the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, where in 2005 he also began conducting studies with Mark Stringer. His artistic training was enriched by masterclasses with Daniel Barenboim, Daniel Harding and David Zinman. At the age of only nine, Christoph Koncz came to international attention through his role as the wunderkind Kaspar Weiss in the Canadian feature film The Red Violin, whose film music was awarded an Oscar. In 2008 at
the age of just 20 he was appointed sec-tion leader of the second violins in the Vienna Philharmonic, a position he held until 2023.
Christoph Koncz has won especial acclaim for his interpretations of works by Mozart. His recording of Mozart’s five violin concertos with Les Musiciens du Louvre — on which he appears as both soloist and conductor — was released in 2020 by Sony Classical and garnered international attention as the first recording of these works to be performed on the composer’s original Baroque violin.
