Conductor Elisabeth Fuchs
The Austrian principal conductor of the Salzburg Philharmonic studied orchestral conducting, oboe, school music and mathematics. Elisabeth Fuchs loves to break musical boundaries, which has led to special collaborations with greats such as Stjepan Hauser of 2Cellos or Rolando Villazon.
About the conductor
Conductor and passionate music educator
Elisabeth Fuchs, the most celebrated female conductor from Austria, is described by the press as „passionate, powerful, moving and overwhelming!“
Born in Austria, Elisabeth Fuchs is principal conductor of the Salzburg Philharmonic Orchestra. She combines a multi-year collaboration with the Stuttgart Philharmonic, the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra and the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra. She also conducted the Brucknerorchester Linz, the Tonkünstlerorchester Niederösterreich, the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, the Hamburger Symphoniker, the Dortmunder Philharmoniker, the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, the HR Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, the Münchner Symphoniker and the Münchner Rundfunkorchester.
At the Prague State Opera, Elisabeth Fuchs made her debut with the Magic Flute, at the Salzburg Festival she conducted Shostakovich's "Das Neue Babylon" and the Mozart operas "Bastien and Bastienne" and "Der Schauspieldirektor", which were recorded on DVD by Deutsche Grammophon ,
Elisabeth Fuchs loves to break musical boundaries, leading to special music & performance projects with Quadro Nuevo, Stjepan Hauser (2 Cellos), David Orlofsky Trio, Klazz Brothers, Henry Threadgill, Pacho Flores, Andreas Martin Hofmeir, Benjamin Schmid, Sergej Malov, Per Arne Glorvigen, Nikolai Tokarev, Rolando Villazón, Iris Berben, Maria Bill, Cornelius Obonya, Philipp Hochmair.
A big concern for her is the participatory music education, which leads to large choir projects with more than 300 contributors, education projects for children, adolescents and students. Therefore Elisabeth Fuchs initiated in the the year 2007 the Kinderfestspiele, 2013 the apprentice concerts in the big festival house and 2018 for students the lecture "UV Musicology interactive including concert experiences".
From 2009 to 2018 she was the Artistic Director of the Salzburger Kulturvereinigung.
Elisabeth Fuchs studied orchestral conducting, choir conducting, oboe, music education and mathematics at the University Mozarteum Salzburg, at the Paris Lodron University Salzburg and at the Music University Cologne.
She lives with her two children in Salzburg.
