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Conductor

Sascha Goetzel

Wien, AT

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Viennese born Sascha Goetzel&rsquos trademarks are conviction and passion, as audiences and critics
around the world have consistently noted. He is Principal Conductor of the Kuopio Symphony
Orchestra, Finland, and Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Borusan Istanbul
Philharmonic Orchestra, and has held posts as Resident Conductor at the Pacific Music Festival
founded by Leonard Bernstein, Music and Artistic Director of the Austrian-Korean Philharmonic,
and Associate Conductor of the Attergau Institute Orchestra, the training orchestra of the Vienna
Philharmonic.
Having initially trained as a violinist, Goetzel began his orchestral career working at close quarters
with many of the world’s greatest conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti and Seiji
Ozawa. He has made successful debuts abroad with the City of Birmingham Symphony, Berlin
Symphony, Luxembourg Philharmonic, NDR Hannover, NHK Symphony, Shanghai Symphony,
Moscow Symphony, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Tokyo and Nagoya Philharmonic
Orchestras, Deutsche Kammerakademie, the Basel and Helsingborg Symphony Orchestras, the
Deutsche Radiophilharmonie and the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire in a wide spectrum
of repertoire, including several world premieres. With the Baltimore and Toronto symphonies he
has conducted Viennese music in New York, Washington and Baltimore, and has worked with
instrumentalists such as Rudolf Buchbinder, Vadim Repin and Hilary Hahn. Last season saw
debuts in Italy, the Netherlands and Denmark, and at the Salzburg Festival and the Carinthischer
Sommer, and conducting the Freedom Concert in Amsterdam in the presence of HM Queen
Beatrix of the Netherlands, an event that was shown live on television.
Sascha Goetzel is an accomplished opera conductor, and has to his credit performances of
Drattell’s Nicholas and Alexandra in Los Angeles, acclaimed new productions of the three Mozart
Da Ponte operas and La Bohème at the Tiroler Landestheater, Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker at the
Vienna State Opera, Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro and Lehár’s Land of Smiles which received
unprecedented critical acclaim at Vienna’s Volksoper, Così Fan Tutte at the Attersee Klassik Festival
and Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the legendary Mariinsky Theater at Valery Gergiev’s invitation. He
has worked with world class singers such as Placido Domingo, José Carreras, Anna Netrebko,
Renée Fleming, Joseph Calleja, José Cura, Thomas Hampson, Roberto Alagna, Michael Schade, Bo
Skovhus and Vesselina Kasarova. Last season he conducted new productions of Entführung aus
dem Serail and Nicolai’s The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Volksoper, and made his debut with The
Magic Flute in Lucerne.
Sascha Goetzel has made countless television and radio broadcasts and has recorded works by
Nino Rota and Max Bruch for Koch Classics. He is a successful music arranger for various
ensembles and artists, such as José Carreras, Ramòn Vargas, the Ensemble Wien and the NTOOrchestra.
Several of his arrangements have been recorded and released by BMG and Deutsche
Grammophon. His recording of three works with links to the Orient by Respighi, Hindemith and
Florent Schmitt with the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra was released on the Onyx label
to coincide with the start of Istanbul’s tenure as European Capital of Culture in 2010, and has
astonished and delighted critics around the world. A second CD is due for release this season.

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