Bruckner Orchester Linz

The Bruckner Orchester Linz looks back on more than two hundred years of history and tradition, and over the past few decades it has become one of Central Europe's leading orchestras.

With its 110 musicians it manages not only the music for staged productions of the Linz's Upper Austrian State Theater, but also the orchestras concerts. The Bruckner Orchester Linz fulfils a number of prominent tasks, including participation in the Bruckner Festival, the Ars Electronica Festival, the Linzer Klangwolke, and the Voestival. In the last few decades the orchestra has earned an outstanding reputation for itself both in Austria and abroad.
Throughout 2009, Linz' year as the Cultural Capital of Europe, the Bruckner Orchester will not only perform it's variety of duties in Linz, but has the important role of ambassador for Linz and Upper Austria abroad. Having toured in 2008/09 to Istanbul, Cologne, and Paris, among other European cities, the orchestra will embark upon its second great U.S. tour in November 2009 under the direction of Dennis Russell Davies.
Other guest performances have taken the ensemble to Hungary, Germany, Italy, France, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Spain, Turkey, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, Greece, Japan, China and the US, and to leading festivals such as the Carinthian Summer Music Festival, the Bratislava Festival, the Bringhton and Bath Festivals, the Klangspuren in Schwaz, the Festival de Musica de Canarias, the International Beethoven Festival in Bonn, and the Athens Festival.

Another focal point of the orchestras work is its CD recordings. The Bruckner Orchester has made a name for itself over the decades with its recordings of works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, Siegfried Matthus, Franz Schmidt, Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Gustav Holst and especially by Philip Glass. The orchestra recently released a complete set of recordings of Anton Bruckner's symphonies in their original version unter their Chief Conductor Dennis Russell Davies.

In the course of its history, the orchestra has been conducted by guest conductors such as Clemens Krauss, Hans Knappertsbusch, Sergiu Celibidache, Kurt Eichhorn (appointed as the orchestra's honorary conductor in 1989), Vaclav Neumann, Christoph von Dohn‘nyi, Zubin Mehta, Serge Baudo, Horst Stein, Vladimir Fedosejew, Michael Gielen, Bernhard Klee and Franz Welser-M¦st and shaped by chief conductors such as Theodor Guschlbauer, Manfred Mayrhofer and Martin Sieghart. Since the 2004/05 season Heinrich Schiff has been the orchestra's first guest conductor. The Orchestras resident conductor is Ingo Ingensand.
Dennis Russell Davies was appointed as Chief Conductor of teh Orchestra in Linz 2002.

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