Vinzenz Praxmarer

Vinzenz Praxmarer

Conductor

Since his opera debut in 2006, Austrian conductor Vinzenz Praxmarer established himself as a sought-after international opera and concert conductor. As founder and artistic director of Divertimento Viennese, he and his chamber orchestra focus particularly on the music of ostracized and persecuted Jewish composers of that period.

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The coming season will see Mr Praxmarer conducting the new year’s concert with the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra and the ball of the Wiener Philharmoniker at the Musikverein, amongst many other engagements in Vienna, Linz, St Pölten (Austria), and Ludwigsburg (Germany).

The past seasons saw Praxmarer’s critically acclaimed debut at Musiktheater Linz and at the helm of the Czech National Symphony Orchestra for the opening concert of the Gustav Mahler Festival in Iglau. He also conducted the official opening concert at the 2022 Salzburg Festival and the Salzkammergut Festival Gmunden, commemorating the 125th birthday of Erich Wolfgang Korngold and featuring violinist Benjamin Schmid and Divertimento Viennese.

In 2006 Vinzenz Praxmarer made his opera debut at the Lehár Festival Bad Ischl, which he went on to serve as music director until 2011. Further debuts took him to Opéra National de Paris, Opéra National de Lyon, Vienna’s Volksoper, the Bregenz Landestheater, and the opera houses of Bern and Sankt Gallen. He regularly conducted concerts featuring Angelika Kirchschlager and Camilla Nylund as soloists and led performances of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro at the Klosteneuburg Opera Festival. From 2013 to 2015 he conducted the children’s opera at the Vienna Staatsoper.

A coveted conductor also in the symphonic field, he has been invited by renowned orchestras, including Tonkünstler Orchestra, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra in Riga, Musikkollegium Winterthur, the Munich Radio Orchestra, Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Tchaikovsky Orchestra in Moscow, Moscow State Symphony Orchestra and Sofia Philharmonic. He also regularly works with the summer academy of the Vienna Philharmonic. With Divertimento Viennese, he recently appeared with Camilla Nylund, Angelika Kirchschlager, Norbert Ernst and Rafael Fingerlos appearing with them at the Vienna Konzerthaus and Brucknerhaus Linz.

Vinzenz Praxmarer began his career assisting Franz Welser‐Möst, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Kirill Petrenko, Philippe Jordan, Valery Gergiev, Christoph Eschenbach, and Marc Albrecht. He has served as assistant conductor and director of studies at the Salzburg Festival, Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Theater an der Wien, Opéra National de Lyon, and Dutch National Opera.

Born in Linz, Vinzenz Praxmarer studied the piano from the age of six, later also adding organ and double-bass. He studied music and romance studies at the Vienna University, later conducting with Georg Mark at the Vienna University for Music and the Arts. In 2004, he received a scholarship of the Richard Wagner Association and was its fellow at the Bayreuth Festival.

Contact

Dr. Marcus Felsner – +49 89 20 500 85624 – marcus@felsnerartists.com