Jochen Rieder
Conductor
Jochen Rieder is a regular guest in many of the world's leading opera houses and concert halls, collaborating with some of today's most admired soloists and orchestra.
Over the years, a long and intense musical friendship has become established with tenor Jonas Kaufmann. Together, they have performed at the Royal Festival Hall in London, Baden-Baden’s Festspielhaus, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, the KKL Lucerne, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, Seoul Arts Center in South Korea, the Sydney Opera House/Australia, the Suntory-Hall Tokyo, the Carnegie Hall New York and Arena di Verona.
He conducts numerous renowned orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala Milano, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin, Bruckner Orchestra Linz, RAI Symphony Orchestra, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Residentie Orkest The Hague and BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Besides concerts all over the world, they made several recordings together, released by SONY: 2014 with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin CD and DVD with Operette-Arias (awarded with Platinum and Gold and the «Echo-Klassik 2015»), 2015 the DVD of the Puccini-concert at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, which has also been screened in many cinemas, 2016 the DVD «Dolce Vita – My Italy», accompanied by the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino and 2018 CD and DVD «An italian night», from the Waldbühne Berlin, again with the Rundfunk-
Sinfonieorchester Berlin and awarded with the OPUS KLASSIK 2019. Further Releases have been 2020 “My Vienna”, 2020 “It´s Christmas” and 2023 “The Sound Of Movies”.
Conductor Jochen Rieder was born in the German region of Rhineland-Palatinate. He has followed a classic Kapellmeister career path that has taken him from conducting positions in Karlsruhe via Bremen to the Zurich Opera House.
December 2024