Patrick Hahn

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Patrick Hahn conducts from the fortepiano
Patrick Hahn (2018)

Patrick Hahn (born July 17, 1995 in Graz ) is an Austrian conductor , pianist and composer . At the beginning of the 2021/22 season he was appointed the youngest general music director in German-speaking countries at Wuppertaler Bühnen und Sinfonieorchester GmbH .

Career

Patrick Hahn is the son of a locksmith and an industrial clerk. He has two brothers. His musical training began as a boy soloist with the Graz Kapellknaben and, at the age of 11, took him to study piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz , where he also completed his conducting and accompaniment studies.

Masterclasses took him to Kurt Masur and Bernard Haitink and as a Conducting Fellow to the Aspen Music Festival and the Tanglewood Music Center .

Hahn made his conductor's debut in 2014 with the Orchestra of the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest alongside Piotr Beczała and Ferruccio Furlanetto at a gala concert on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Austro-Hungarian border. In the same year he conducted for the first time in the Musikverein Graz . In the following years, debuts followed with the Munich Philharmonic , the Munich Radio Orchestra , the Gürzenich Orchestra , the Dresden Philharmonic , the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra , the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra , the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria , the Vienna Symphony Orchestra , the Camerata Salzburg , the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra , the Camerata Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra , the Orquestra Simfònica de les Illes Balears, the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn , the recreation - Grosses Orchester Graz , the Opéra de Rouen Normandie, the Bavarian State Opera Munich , the Hamburg State Opera and the Tyrolean Festival Erl .

With the performance of Bruckner's 7th Symphony by the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra in spring 2019, Hahn became the youngest conductor in the great hall of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg . He made his Japan debut in the summer of 2019 on tour with the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa and the Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii and the French trumpeter Lucienne Renaudin Vary .

As a pianist he has given concerts with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg and as a lied accompanist in the Wiener Musikverein , and for the 2017/18 season he was also solo repetitor at the Hamburg State Opera. In close cooperation with Kirill Petrenko , he took over the rehearsal of the new productions of Salome and Die Tote Stadt at the Bavarian State Opera in 2019 and of Fidelio at the Baden-Baden Easter Festival in 2020 .

Others

Constant contact with the opera as a boy soloist prompted him to write his first composition at the age of 12 - the opera “Die Frittatensuppe” , which premiered in Graz in 2008 under his direction . In 2013 he received 2nd prize at the Penfield Music Commission Project Contest ( New York , USA ). As a composer and arranger , he has published music for the music publisher Tierolff Muziekcentrale ( Roosendaal , Netherlands ) and Helbling (Rum / Innsbruck ).

In addition to his work in classical music, as a chansonnier he is also very interested in the songs of the Austrian composer and satirist Georg Kreisler as well as in jazz music and has received awards at jazz festivals in Chicago and the “Outstanding Soloist Award” from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse as best jazz pianist at the 37th Annual Jazz Festival.

In 2017 he was awarded the prize of the Federal Ministry for Science, Research and Economy .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Patrick Hahn appointed General Music Director of Wuppertaler Bühnen und Sinfonieorchester GmbH. July 2, 2020, accessed on July 3, 2020 .
  2. ^ ORF (Vienna): [Conductor and all-rounder] , Ö1 Klassik Treffpunkt, presentation: Albert Hosp , March 21, 2020
  3. ↑ From boy soloist to sought-after conductor. WDR - Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, January 30, 2019, accessed on May 31, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b WORLD: Patrick Hahn: Youngster at the conductor's desk . July 3, 2018 ( welt.de [accessed May 31, 2019]).
  5. ↑ a b c Patrick Hahn. In: Munich Philharmonic. Munich Philharmonic, March 1, 2018, accessed on May 31, 2019 .
  6. ^ A b c Süddeutsche de GmbH, Munich Germany: Patrick Hahn: Youngster at the conductor's desk - culture news. Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 3, 2018, accessed on August 14, 2020 .
  7. ↑ PPS: Hungary for Germany 1989-2014 and the Opera for Europe - News & PR. Accessed May 31, 2019 (German).
  8. ↑ "Reviews". Accessed May 31, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: At the desk of the Munich Philharmonic: Interview with the conductor Patrick Hahn | BR classic. Accessed May 31, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Patrick Hahn conducts "Hansel & Gretel". In: Blog Grafenegg. November 26, 2018, accessed on May 31, 2019 (German).
  11. ↑ Lucerne Symphony Orchestra: Lucerne Symphony Orchestra. Accessed May 31, 2019 .
  12. ^ Grazer Orchester recreation: Patrick Hahn stormed through the program. October 2, 2018, accessed May 31, 2019 .
  13. ^ Bavarian State Opera: Hahn Patrick. Accessed May 31, 2019 .
  14. ^ Salzburger Nachrichten: Erl guest conductor Hahn does not want to be an "omniscient dictator". Accessed May 31, 2019 .
  15. ↑ mir media-interface engineering, cologne- www.mir.de: Orchester. Accessed May 31, 2019 .
  16. ↑ PATRICK HAHN DEBUTS AT ELBPHILHARMONIE WITH HAMBURGER SYMPHONIKER. March 18, 2019, accessed May 31, 2019 .
  17. ↑ 辻 井 伸 行 ル シ エ ン ヌ パ ト リ ッ ク ・ ハ ー ン 指揮 オ ー ケ ス ト ラ ・ サ ン サ ン ブ ル 金 沢. Retrieved May 31, 2019 (Japanese).
  18. ↑ Have fun with Freud 'with even more drive. Accessed May 31, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Lieder recital Wiener Musikverein. Accessed May 31, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Who set the pace . In: sueddeutsche.de . January 2, 2019, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed May 31, 2019]).
  21. ↑ a b c Large exclusive interview, Patrick Hahn, conductor, Munich. In: Classic enthusiasts. November 17, 2018, accessed on May 31, 2019 (German).
  22. ↑ Prize winners. Accessed May 31, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hahn, Patrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian conductor, pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz