Sascha Goetzel was born in Vienna in 1970. Studied the violin: with his father from the age of five and subsequently at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Graz. At the age of eleven he began to study conducting under Professor Richard Österreicher. Studied at the Juilliard School and Brooklyn College, and at the invitation of Seiji Ozawa he appeared for two summers as a fellowship conductor at the Tanglewood Music Festival (Massachusetts), training further under Jorma Panula at the Sibelius Academy (Helsinki) and taking lessons from Zubin Mehta, Seiji Ozawa, Riccardo Muti, André Previn and Bernard Haitink.
He has been Artistic Director of the Austrian-Korean Philharmonic Orchestra (Vienna; 2004–2008), Principal Conductor of the Kuopio Symphony Orchestra (Finland; 2007–2013) and Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne (2012–2015) and the Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra (Japan; 2013–2017), as well as Resident Conductor of the Pacific Music Festival (Sapporo, Japan) and Music Director of the International Orchestra Institute Attergau, formed under the aegis of the Wiener Philharmoniker. From 2009 to 2020 he was Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, together with which he has appeared at the Salzburg Festival, the BBC Proms in London, the Hong Kong Arts Festival, the Musikverein and the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Meistersingerhalle Nürnberg, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. Artistic Director of the Istanbul foundation Music for Peace (since 2014). Principal Conductor of the Kirishima International Music Festival (Japan; since 2018) and Principal Guest Conductor of the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra (since 2019). In late 2021 it was announced that from September 2022 Sascha Goetzel will be Music Director of the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire for a tenure lasting four years, and in 2022–2023 he will, additionally, be Music Director of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada (Toronto). Has made appearances with the NHK Symphony Orchestra (Tokyo), the Münchner Philharmoniker, the Dresdner Philharmonie, the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France (Paris), the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, the Israel Philharmonic (Tel Aviv), the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Malmö Symphony Orchestra (Sweden), the Aarhus Symfoniorkester (Denmark) and the Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra among numerous other ensembles.
Has collaborated with Daniil Trifonov, Yuja Wang, Rudolf Buchbinder, Murray Perahia, Maxim Vengerov, Vadim Repin, Nemanja Radulović, Roberto Alagna, Arcadi Volodos, Julian Rachlin, Daniel Hope, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Anna Netrebko, Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson, Bryn Terfel, Piotr Beczała and Ian Bostridge.
Frequently appears as an opera conductor. Has taken part in productions at the Mariinsky Theatre, the Volksoper Wien, the Tiroler Landestheater (Innsbruck), the Opernhaus Zürich, the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, the Angers Nantes Opéra, the Opéra National de Montpellier, Tokyo’s Bunka Kaikan hall, the Opéra de Rennes and the Opéra National de Lorraine (Nancy). Following an appearance at the Vienna State Opera (Le nozze di Figaro) he conducted a further six productions at that theatre: Die Fledermaus, La Bohème, Don Giovanni, Rigoletto, Die Zauberflöte and Der Rosenkavalier.
Co-founder and Principal Creative Director of the digital platform Vienna Art Network, mentor of the Norwegian Dirigentløftet programme of support for young conductors and co-founder and Director of the Opera by the Fjord academy and festival for vocalists and instrumentalists (this project is run in partnership with the Bergen Nasjonale Opera).
Together with the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra he has recorded several albums on the labels Deutsche Grammophon and Onyx, among them discs featuring works by Respighi, Hindemith and Florent Schmitt (2010), Rimsky-Korsakov’s Schéhérazade and opuses by Balakirev, Ippolitov-Ivanov and Ulvi Cemal Erkin (2014), Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto and Variations on a Rococo Theme (2017), Berlioz’ Symphonie fantastique and Mark-Anthony Turnage’s double violin concerto Shadow Walker (2018), as well as the album Music from the Machine Age (2012; Prokofiev, Bartók, Ravel, Erwin Schulhoff and Gustav Holst). In 2015 the French label naïve released a CD featuring violin concerti by Bach and Schnittke’s Concerto grosso No. 3 performed by the Nemtanu sisters and the Orchestre de chambre de Paris under the baton of Sascha Goetzel.
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