Bio
THOMAS RÖSNER, conductor
Thomas Rösner was born in Vienna and conducted his first orchestral concerts at the age of 14. He studied in Vienna, attending masterclasses by Ilya Musin, Myung-Whun Chung und Hans Graf.
It was Fabio Luisi who invited Thomas Rösner at a day’s notice to conduct on a tour of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, which marked the real beginning of his international conducting career. Since then, Rösner has been invited to conduct more than 50 orchestras, including the Deutsches Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Vienna Symphony, Bamberg Symphony, Hamburg Symphony, the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Orchestre National de Bordeaux, the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Israel Sinfonietta, the Houston Symphony, the Calgary Philharmonic and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra.
From 2005 to June 2011, Thomas Rösner was chief conductor of the Orchestre Symphonique Bienne in Switzerland. Together with this orchestra, he has embarked on an extensive series of concerts in Switzerland and abroad.
Thomas Rösner has also conducted at renowned opera houses: at the Bavarian State Opera Munich, the Semperoper Dresden, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Stuttgart, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Geneva Opera, at the Edinburgh Festival, the Bregenz Festival, the Opéra National de Lyon, in Nantes, Marseille, Bordeaux, in Rome and at the New National Theatre in Tokyo.
In 2005 he made his debut at Glyndebourne Touring Opera with “Le nozze di Figaro” which led to an invitation to the Glyndebourne Festival with “Die Fledermaus” and to the Welsh National Opera with “Hansel and Gretel”. In spring 2011 he returned to WNO with a highly acclaimed new production of “Die Fledermaus”.
His upcoming projects include a creation by Franck Schwemmer “Cosi fan tutte” and “Fidelio” at Opernhaus Zurich, “Die Fledermaus” at Staatsoper Stuttgart and “Cosi fan tutte” at the Théatre de la Monnaie in Brussels as well as concerts with the Sinfonieorchester Basel, the Wiener Concertverein, the Prague Philharmonia Orchestra, and recordings with the Bamberger Symphoniker.
Rösner has recorded Il Trovatore on DVD for Opus Arte, Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass and various CDs with the Orchestre Symphonique Bienne for ATMA and Guildmusic and Gramola as well as for the BBC, ORF, DRS and Bavarian Radio.
October 2011
Biography
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