Christoph Koncz

The young Austrian conductor Christoph Koncz has already established himself as one of the outstanding musicians of his generation, performing worldwide with orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra London, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo and Hong Kong Philharmonic.

During the current season, Christoph Koncz will appear for the first time with the Wiener Symphoniker, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Utah Symphony Orchestra and return to the London Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic and Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal. He will also lead performance series of Don Giovanni at the National Theatre Prague and The Magic Flute at the Opera North Leeds as well as a new production of La Traviata at the Opéra national du Rhin Strasbourg. 

In the 2023/24 season Christoph Koncz started his tenure as Music Director of the Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse. Currently in his sixth season as Chief Conductor of the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, he has also been appointed Principal Guest Conductor of Les Musiciens du Louvre and has enjoyed a close partnership with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra. His conducting debut at the 2013 Salzburg Mozartwoche was followed by concerts at such prestigious venues as the Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg and Munich Philharmonie, Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus, KKL Lucerne and Concertgebouw Amsterdam as well as at the 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 he has held until 2023.

Christoph Koncz is particularly noted for his interpretations of the works by Mozart. His recording of the Complete Violin Concertos as soloist and conductor with Les Musiciens du Louvre was released by Sony Classical in 2020 and caused an international sensation for being the first recording of these famous works on the composer’s original Baroque violin.

At the Vienna State Opera Christoph Koncz made his debut as a conductor in 2023 with Arvo Pärtʼs Tabula Rasa in the ballet program Goldberg-Variationen. In the 2024/25 season, he returns to conduct the Vienna State Opera Orchestra in the Vienna State Ballet premiere of Christopher Wheeldonʼs The Winterʼs Tale with music by Joby Talbot.