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Patrick Hahn

Patrick Hahn is a versatile figure whose activities extend to conducting, piano playing, composition, and jazz. He is the general music director of the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra. Hahn was born on July 17, 1995, in Graz, Austria. Although his family was not musical, he earned a place in the Graz Boys Choir as a boy treble soloist. Hahn enrolled at the Graz University of the Arts at age 11, studying piano. As he continued his studies, he added conducting and composition. At 12, he wrote an opera, Die Frittatensuppe, which was premiered the following year in Graz under his own direction. Hahn took conducting master classes from Kurt Masur and Bernard Haitink, and he rounded out his conducting education with fellowships at the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado and the Tanglewood Music Center in Massachusetts. He made his conducting debut with the Orchestra of the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest in a concert marking the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Austrian-Hungarian border. Hahn remained active as a pianist, performing with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg and as a lied accompanist in the Vienna Musikverein and serving as a rehearsal pianist at the Hamburg Staatsoper. In that city, he conducted the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra in Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 in E major at the Elbphilharmonie concert hall; he was the youngest conductor ever to have appeared there. Hahn made his recording debut in 2020, leading the Kammerakademie Potsdam in accompaniment to Olivier Cavé in an Alpha recording of Beethoven's Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2. Hahn has appeared with top orchestras, including the Munich Philharmonic, London's Philharmonia Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. In 2021, he became Generalmusikdirektor of the Wuppertaler Bühnen und Sinfonieorchester GmbH, a durable city position that encompasses conducting the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra as well as opera productions; his contract there has been extended through 2026. Hahn has also served as the principal conductor of the Munich Radio Orchestra, which he conducted in 2022 on a BR Klassik recording of Viktor Ullmann's Der Kaiser von Atlantis, and the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra. Hahn returned on Alpha in 2023, leading the Philharmonia Orchestra on a recording of violin concertos by Bruch and Britten, with Kerson Leong as soloist. Hahn is also active as a jazz pianist, having made several appearances in the U.S. Midwest and received the Outstanding Soloist Award at the University of Wisconsin - La Cross Jazz Festival. He has a strong interest in the music of cabaret composer Georg Kreisler.
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