Patrick Hahn

Patrick Hahn (born 17 July 1995 in Graz) is an Austrian conductor, pianist and composer. He was appointed as the General Music Director of the Wuppertaler Bühnen und Sinfonieorchester GmbH, becoming the youngest GMD in Germany, starting in the 2021/22 season.[1]

Patrick Hahn (2018)

Career

His musical education began as a treble soloist with the Graz Boys Choir and led him at age 11 to study piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, where he also completed his studies in conducting and correpetition.[2] His family comes from a non-musical background.[3]

He has taken part in Masterclasses with Kurt Masur and Bernard Haitink and was a Conducting Fellow at both the Aspen Music Festival as well as the Tanglewood Music Center.[4]

Hahn gave his professional debut as a conductor in 2014 with the Orchestra of the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest sharing the stage with Piotr Beczała and Ferruccio Furlanetto at a gala concert on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Austrian-Hungarian border.[5] In the following years he had debuts with major orchestras such as the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, the NDR Radiophilharmonie, the Tonkünstler Orchestra Niederösterreich, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Camerata Salzburg, the recreation - Grosses Orchester Graz, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, the Camerata Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Opéra de Rouen Normandie, the Bavarian State Opera Munich, the Hamburg State Opera, and the Tyrolean Festival Erl.[6]

With a performance of Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 by the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra in the spring of 2019, Hahn became the youngest conductor in the big hall of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.[7] His Japanese debut took place in the summer of 2019 on tour with the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa and Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii as well as French trumpeter Lucienne Renaudin Vary.[8] Within the field of contemporary music he has a close relationship with Klangforum Wien.

As a pianist, he performed with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg or as a Lied accompanist in the Vienna Musikverein,[9] for the season 2017/18 he was also a solo repetitor at the Hamburg State Opera.[2] In close collaboration with Kirill Petrenko, he was musically responsible for the 2019 new productions of Salome and Die Tote Stadt at the Bavarian State Opera as well as Fidelio at Festspielhaus Baden-Baden.[10][11]

Miscellaneous

Continuous contact with the field of opera as a treble soloist led him to write his first composition at the age of 12 - the opera "Die Frittatensuppe", which was premiered in 2008 under his direction in Graz.[2] In 2013 he was awarded the 2nd prize at the Penfield Music Commission Project Contest (New York, USA). As a composer and arranger he has published music with Tierolff Muziekcentrale (Roosendaal, the Netherlands) as well as Helbling (Rum/Innsbruck).[4][10]

Aside from his work in classical music, Hahn has a keen interest in both cabaret-songs by the Austrian satirist and composer Georg Kreisler as well as in jazz music, having received awards as a pianist at jazz festivals in Chicago and the "Outstanding Soloist Award" from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse as the best jazz pianist of the 37th Annual Jazz Festival.[2][12]

References
  1. "Patrick Hahn appointed General Music Director of Wuppertaler Bühnen und Sinfonieorchester GmbH". HarrisonParrott. 2020-07-02. Retrieved 2020-07-03.
  2. "Youngster on the Conductor's Podium". WELT. 3 July 2018.
  3. "Vom Knabensolist zum gefragten Dirigenten". WDR - West German Radio and Television Cologne. 30 January 2019.
  4. "Patrick Hahn". Munich Philharmonic Orchestra.
  5. "Ungarn für Deutschland 1989 -2014 und die Oper für Europa".
  6. "Patrick Hahn". Bavarian State Opera Munich.
  7. "PATRICK HAHN DEBUTS AT ELBPHILHARMONIE WITH HAMBURGER SYMPHONIKER". HarrisonParrott. 2019-03-18. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
  8. "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". 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 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-04-21.
  9. "Recital Vienna Musikverein". Musikverein Vienna.
  10. "Die den Takt angeben". Süddeutsche Zeitung. 2 January 2019.
  11. "Anything but usual". Süddeutsche Zeitung. 13 December 2019.
  12. "Exclusive Interview: Patrick Hahn, Conductor". klassik-begeistert.de. 17 November 2018.
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