Christoph König (conductor)

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Christoph König (* 1968 in Dresden ) is a German conductor .

Life

Christoph König grew up in Dresden and became a member of the Dresden Kreuzchor at the age of nine ; in 1986 he passed his Abitur. From 1988 to 1993 he studied orchestral conducting at the "Carl Maria von Weber" music college in his hometown. He gained his first experience from 1993 as a solo repetitor at the Saxon State Opera , later as Kapellmeister at the opera houses of Wuppertal and Gelsenkirchen, which were merged at the time . From 2001 he was first conductor at the Bonn Opera / Orchestra of the Beethoven Hall . From 2003 to 2006 he was chief conductor of the Malmö Symfoniorkester and from 2008 to 2014 of the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Musica . Concert tours have taken him to Brazil, Vienna, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Luxembourg and the Musica Festival Strasbourg with the Porto Symphony Orchestra. Since 2010 he has also been chief conductor of the Solistes Européens Luxembourg.

As a guest conductor, Christoph König conducts the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden , the Orchester de Paris , the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London , the Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam , the Danish National Orchestra, the Norwegian Radio Symphony Orchestra Oslo, the BBC Philharmonic and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra , which he also accompanied on a tour to China in 2008. On the American continent he works with orchestras from Los Angeles , Pittsburgh , Toronto , Houston and Baltimore , among others .

He has worked as an opera conductor at the Zurich Opera House , the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Stuttgart State Opera and the Deutsche Oper Berlin .

Christoph König lives in Vienna .

Record recordings

Christoph König's recordings include works by Gösta Nystroem (BIS), Schönberg and Prokoffieff (Romeo & Juliet), Saariaho and Sibelius (Symphony No. 2) with the Orquestra Sinfónica Casa da Música Porto (Ao Vivo), Henryk Melcer with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (Hyperion), Beethoven symphonies with the Malmö SymfoniOrkester (DB Productions) and Beethoven and Sibelius with the Solistes Européens, Luxembourg (SEL Classics). His recording with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Brahms' First Piano Concerto featured on the front cover of BBC Music Magazine in September 2009.

Publicity

His commitment to the musical life of Luxembourg was recognized in 2014 with the issue of a postage stamp from Post Luxembourg. Christoph König is the recipient of the Herbert von Karajan Foundation's sponsorship award.

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personal data
SURNAME King, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden