Artists’ Profiles

Markus Poschner

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Conductor

Born in Munich, Markus Poschner was awarded the German Conductors Prize in 2004 and has since then received regular invitations from top orchestras both on the national and international platform. Nowadays he is above-all known for his breath-taking interpretations and recordings of Beethoven, Brahms and Mahler. Having studied at the local conservatory in Munich and as assistant of Sir Roger Norrington and Sir Colin Davies, Markus Poschner became Kapellmeister (conductor) at Komische Oper Berlin in 2006. His collaboration with directors like Nicolas Stemann, Hans Neuenfels, Peter Konwitschny, Andreas Homoki and Sebastian Baumgarten lead the Neue Zürcher Zeitung to describe him as the “most promising up-and-coming talent.”

Markus Poschner has been invited by many of the most renowned orchestras and opera houses, including Staatskapelle Dresden, Dresdner Philharmoniker, Bamberger Symphon­iker, Münchner Philharmoniker, Wiener Symphoniker, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the radio symphony orchestras in Berlin, Leipzig, as well as Staatsoper Berlin, Komische Oper Berlin, Hamburg­ische Staatsoper, Oper Köln, Oper Frankfurt and Opernhaus Zürich. In July 2010 Markus Poschner was appointed professor at the Institute of Musicology by the University of Bremen. Since the season 2017–18, Markus Poschner is Chief Conductor of the Bruckner Orchester Linz.

Maximilian Hornung

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Cellist

With his striking musicality, instinctive stylistic certainty and musical maturity, the cellist Maximilian Hornung is taking the international music scene by storm. Today, he regularly performs as a soloist with such renowned orchestras as the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under conductors such as Mariss Jansons, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Yannick Nézét-Séguin and Manfred Honeck.

Highlights of previous seasons include re-invitations to the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Mariss Jansons, the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz and the Florida Orchestra, both under Michael Francis, the Bern Symphony Orchestra under Mario Venzago, the Munich Symphony under Kevin John Edusei, the Bochum Symphony under Hans Graf and the Nationaltheater-Orchester Mannheim under Roderick Cox. Maximilian Hornung, born 1986 in Augsburg, began taking cello lessons at the age of eight. The teachers with whom he has studied most intensely are Eldar Issakadze, Thomas Grossenbacher and David Geringas. Maximilian Hornung has been supported and sponsored by the Anne-Sophie Mutter Circle of Friends Foundation and Borletti-Buitoni Trust London.