Christoph Gedschold

Christoph Gedschold is the new chief conductor of the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra and will be working on a Bruckner and a Mahler cycle as well as the important choral works by Bach over the next few years.  A joint guest performance will take them to the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg this season with Haydn No. 45 & Schumann No. 2.
As Music Director of Leipzig Opera (2022-2024), he presented works such as Rosenkavalier, Elektra, Salome, Tristan und Isolde, Lohengrin, Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Peter Grimes and Otello with the Gewandhausorchester.
A much sought-after interpreter of Strauss and Wagner, he has conducted “Elektra” and “Ariadne auf Naxos” at the Semperoper Dresden, “Ariadne”
in Frankfurt, “Flying Dutchman” in Düsseldorf, “Götterdämmerung” and “Lohengrin” in Oviedo and “Der Bürger als Edelmann-Suite” with Staatskapelle Dresden.
Another of his musical loves is the Slavic repertoire. He has conducted new productions such as “The Passenger” by Weinberg at Semperoper Dresden and at Frankfurt Opera, “Rusalka” in Cologne, “Eugen Onegin” in Zurich, “Katja Kabanova” in Hamburg, and Shostakovich No. 11 with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.
During his piano and conducting studies in Leipzig and Hamburg, he was already a member of the International Opera Studio in Zurich. In 2002, he became conductor and répétiteur at the Lucerne Theater and worked at the Lucerne Festival for Claudio Abbado, Mariss Jansons and Pierre Boulez, among others. In 2005, he assisted Ulf Schirmer at the Bregenz Festival and subsequently worked at the Staatstheater Nürnberg, the Staatstheater Karlsruhe and the Leipzig Opera.
In addition to his regular collaboration with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, he has conducted the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the MDR Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken, the Gürzenich Orchestra, the Orchestra of the National Theater Mannheim, the Orchestra of the Zurich Opera, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, the Basel Symphony Orchestra and the New Japan Philharmonic.