JUN MARKL

Jun Märkl was music director of the Orchestre National de Lyon from 2005 to 2011 and principal conductor/artistic advisor of the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony to 2012. He has appeared as a guest conductor with the orchestras of Philadelphia, Cleveland, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, City of Birmingham, and the Munich, Oslo and Helsinki Philharmonics among others, and at the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, Vienna State and Dresden Semper Operas. He also enjoys a close relationship with the NHK Symphony with which he conducted the first Japanese Ring cycle in Tokyo. Born in Munich, Märkl studied initially with Sergiu Celibidache and Gustav Meier, then at Tanglewood with Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa. His first music directorships were at the Staatstheater in Saarbrücken and at the Mannheim Nationaltheater. He went on to become permanent conductor of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, a position he held until 2006.

Jun Märkl is represented by Susie McLeod at Intermusica, smcleod@intermusica.co.uk.

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A MAN OF THE WORLD – Jeremy Siepmann talks to the conductor Jun Märkl

Jun Märkl Completes His Debussy Orchestral Cycle

Interview with Jun Märkl

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Role: Conductor
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