Bruckner Orchestra as “Orchestra of the Year”

Chief conductor Markus Poschner is nominated in the category “Best Musical Performance”.

The series comprises five concerts between October 2020 and June 2021 in the Brucknerhaus in Linz. In addition to Poschner, Julian Rachlin will appear before the Bruckner Orchestra as a conductor and violin soloist as well as the first guest conductor Bruno Weil. Other soloists in the five concerts are Emmanuel Tjeknavorian (violin), Avi Avital (mandolin) and Hugo Siegmeth (saxophone). He will play a solo part in a chamber symphony by the Georgian composer Sulchan Nassidse, together with Markus Poschner on the piano, who edited the composition and thus brings it to a new “world premiere”.

Link old and new

Because Upper Austria and its people are characterized by an unmistakable mixture of tradition and modernity, old and new are also linked in the program of the first concert series, says chief conductor Markus Poschner, who recalled the successes of his first own concerts at the beginning of the year, for Concert, wants to connect.

Own concert series “long awaited”

As a new cultural offer, interested parties can choose from three subscriptions with the concerts in the Brucknerhaus and performances in the music theater and the Schauspielhaus. For Poschner, as he emphasized at the presentation on Monday in Linz, his own concert series is “long-awaited”. After the break due to CoV, the orchestra needed access to the audience “with all senses”. “We need the experience of the community, we live from the community in the orchestra and with the audience, we need the ritual,” said the chief conductor. The new concert series is “a kind of reflection” for the musicians.

Governor of Culture Thomas Stelzer (ÖVP) described the Bruckner Orchestra as a symbol for Upper Austria, but also for internationality. For the chief conductor and the Bruckner Orchestra, this year’s Austrian Music Theater Prize is the “gold medal”, says Stelzer.

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