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 the important choral works by Bach over the next few years. A joint guest performance will take him to the Elbphilharmonie
Hamburg this season with Haydn No. 45 and Schumann No. 2.
As Music Director of Leipzig Opera (2022–24), he presented works such as Rosenkavalier, Elektra, Salome, Tristan und Isolde, Lohengrin, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Peter Grimes and Otello with the Gewandhausorchester.
A much sought-after interpreter of Strauss and Wagner, 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 Staatskapelle Dresden.
Another of his musical loves is the Slavic repertoire. He has conducted new productions such as The Passenger by Weinberg at Semperoper Dresden and at 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 Theater 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 Staatstheater Nürnberg, the Staatstheater Karlsruhe 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, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken, Gürzenich Orchestra, Orchestra of the National
Theater Mannheim, Stuttgart Philharmonic, Orchestra of the Zurich Opera, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Basel Symphony Orchestra and New Japan Philharmonic.