Since being awarded the German Conductors’ Prize, Markus Poschner has appeared with the most renowned orchestras and opera houses, including the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, SWR Symphonieorchester, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Staatskapelle Berlin, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Bamberger Symphoniker, Wiener Symphoniker, and the NHK Tokyo, as well as the Zurich Opera House and the State Operas of Berlin, Vienna, Munich, and Hamburg. In 2022, he opened the Bayreuth Festival with a new production of "Tristan und Isolde," which he also conducted in 2023. Beginning with the 2026/27 season, the Munich-born conductor, who is also a passionate jazz pianist, will become Chief Conductor of the prestigious ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Since the 2025/26 season, he has been Chief Conductor of the Basel Symphony Orchestra and will additionally assume the position of Music Director of the Utah Symphony Orchestra starting in 2027/28. From 2015 to 2025, he was Chief Conductor of the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, with which he won the renowned International Classical Music Award in 2018 for the complete recording of Brahms’s symphonies and again in 2025 for his Hindemith and Schnittke recordings. His recording of Offenbach’s "Maître Péronilla" with the Orchestre National de France received the 2021 Annual Prize of the German Record Critics’ Award. For the complete recording of all Bruckner symphonies with the Bruckner Orchester Linz, of which Poschner has been Chief Conductor since 2017, and the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, he received the 2024 Special Achievement Award from the jury of the International Classical Music Award. In 2020, Poschner and the Bruckner Orchester Linz received the Austrian Music Prize.
