Christoph Gedschold

Christoph Gedschold is the new chief conductor of the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra and will be working on a Bruckner and a Mahler cycle as well as Bach's important choral works over the next few years. A joint guest performance will take them to the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg this season with Haydn No. 45 & Schumann No. 2.

As Music Director of Leipzig Opera (2022-2024), he presented works such as Rosenkavalier, Elektra, Salome, Tristan und Isolde, Lohengrin, Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Peter Grimes and Otello with the Gewandhausorchester.
A much sought-after Strauss and Wagner interpreter, he has conducted ‘Elektra’ and ‘Ariadne auf Naxos’ at the Semperoper Dresden, ‘Ariadne’ in Frankfurt, ‘Flying Dutchman’ in Düsseldorf, ‘Götterdämmerung’ and “Lohengrin” in Oviedo and ‘Der Bürger als Edelmann-Suite’ with the Staatskapelle Dresden.

Another of his musical loves is the Slavic repertoire. He has conducted new productions such as ‘The Passenger’ by Weinberg at the Semperoper Dresden and at the Frankfurt Opera, “Rusalka” in Cologne, ‘Eugen Onegin’ in Zurich, ‘Katja Kabanova’ in Hamburg, and Shostakovich No. 11 with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.
During his piano and conducting studies in Leipzig and Hamburg, he was already a member of the International Opera Studio in Zurich. In 2002, he became conductor and répétiteur at the Lucerne Theatre and worked at the Lucerne Festival for Claudio Abbado, Mariss Jansons and Pierre Boulez, among others. In 2005, he assisted Ulf Schirmer at the Bregenz Festival and subsequently worked at the Nuremberg State Theatre, the Karlsruhe State Theatre and the Leipzig Opera.


In addition to his regular collaboration with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, he has conducted the Staatskapelle Dresden, Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra, MDR Symphony Orchestra, German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Saarbrücken, Gürzenich Orchestra, Orchestra of the National Theatre Mannheim. Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, Zurich Opera Orchestra, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Basel Symphony Orchestra and New Japan Philharmonic.