JUN MARKL

Jun Märkl is currently chief conductor of the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony, and from 2005–2011 was music director of the Orchestre National de Lyon. He has guest-conducted many distinguished orchestras worldwide, including in 2011: Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Gurzenich Orchester Cologne, Oslo Philharmonic, Helsinki Philharmonic, Residentie Orkest, City of Birmingham Symphony, Royal Scottish National, Mito Chamber, and NHK Symphony (Tokyo), where he returns every season. Märkl was until 2006 permanent conductor of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. He conducted a complete Ring Cycle at the Deutsche Oper and at the New National Theatre in Tokyo (directed by Keith Warner). He has also been a regular guest at the Berlin State Opera, Vienna State Opera and the Semper Oper Dresden, made his Royal Opera House début with Götterdämmerung in 1996 and at the Metropolitan Opera with Il Trovatore in 1998.

Born in Munich, his (German) father was a distinguished concertmaster and his (Japanese) mother a solo pianist. Märkl studied violin, piano and conducting at the Musikhochschule in Hannover, going on to study with Sergiu Celibidache in Munich and with Gustav Meier in Michigan. In 1986 he won the conducting competition of the Deutsche Musikrat and a year later won a scholarship from the Boston Symphony Orchestra to study at Tanglewood with Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa. Soon afterwards he had a string of appointments in European opera houses followed by his first music directorships at the Staatstheater in Saarbrücken (1991–94) and at the Mannheim Nationaltheater (1994–2000).

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

Interview with Jun Märkl

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Role: Conductor
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