CHRISTOPH KONCZ
Conductor
Christoph Koncz will make his Boston Baroque debut in Handel’s Messiah in December 2026
Chief Conductor Designate: Bruckner Orchester Linz
Music Director: Orchestre National de Mulhouse
Chief Conductor: Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein
Austrian conductor Christoph Koncz performs worldwide with the Cleveland, London Symphony, Swedish Radio Symphony, Philharmonia, Israel Philharmonic and Hong Kong Philharmonic orchestras, as well as Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Wiener Symphoniker, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt. He also appears at opera houses including Opernhaus Zürich, National Theatre Prague, Teatro Real Madrid and Wiener Staatsoper. In summer 2026, he conducted Mozart’s Così fan tutte with the Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Festival.
During the upcoming season, Christoph Koncz will make his debut with Japan Philharmonic, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Boston Baroque, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Musikkollegium Winterthur and Dresdner Philharmonie. He will return to, among others, Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, Tampere Philharmonic and Stuttgarter Philharmoniker. Additionally, he will perform at the Festival de Pâques d'Aix-en-Provence, Müpa Budapest and Wiener Konzerthaus. He will conduct new productions of Lohengrin at the Landestheater Linz and Ariadne auf Naxos at the Opéra national du Rhin Strasbourg as well as a performances of Le nozze di Figaro at the Semperoper Dresden.
Christoph Koncz will be Chief Conductor of Bruckner Orchester Linz and Music Director of Landestheater Linz from September 2027. He has been Music Director of Orchestre National de Mulhouse since 2023 and Chief Conductor of the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein since 2019. He was previously Principal Guest Conductor of the renowned French period instrument ensemble Les Musiciens du Louvre and has enjoyed a close partnership with Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra. His conducting debut at the 2013 Salzburg Mozartwoche was followed by concerts at prestigious venues such as the Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg and Munich Philharmonie, Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus, KKL Lucerne, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Salzburg Festival.
Born 1987 in Konstanz into an Austrian-Hungarian family of musicians, Christoph Koncz received his first violin lessons at the age of four. Only two years later, he entered the Vienna University of Music, where he also enrolled in the conducting class of Mark Stringer in 2005. Master classes with Daniel Barenboim, Daniel Harding and David Zinman further enriched his musical education. At the age of just nine, he received worldwide acclaim for starring as child prodigy Kaspar Weiss in the Canadian feature film The Red Violin, which won an Academy Award for Best Original Score. In 2008, at the age of twenty, Christoph Koncz was appointed principal second violin of the Vienna Philharmonic, a position which he held until 2023.
Christoph Koncz is particularly noted for his interpretations of the works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His recording of the Complete Violin Concertos as soloist and conductor with Les Musiciens du Louvre was released by Sony Classical in 2020 under the title Mozart's Violin and caused an international sensation for being the first recording of these famous works on the composer's original Baroque violin.