Biography

Christoph Gedschold studied Piano and Conducting in Leipzig and Hamburg with Christof Prick.

Following the engagements at Theater Lucerne and Staatstheater Nuremberg, he became the Kapellmeister at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, where he led i.a. Martinu’s The Greek Passion, Euryanthe, La Gioconda, the German first performance of Weinberg’s Die Passsagierin, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Der fliegende Holländer, Lohengrin, Der Rosenkavalier, Ariadne auf Naxos, Otello, Boris Godunov, and Peter Grimes.
In 2015, he has made his successful debut in North America conducting Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11 with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, followed by re-invitations.
In 2016, he led Die Passagierin on the occasion of the Wiener Festwochen, as well as Ariadne auf Naxos.
 
Christoph Gedschold is a regular guest at the Semperoper Dresden and the Staatsoper Hamburg. In Dresden he already has conducted Der Freischütz, Die Zauberflöte, Don Giovanni, as well as the premiere of Die Passagierin, and productions in Hamburg include, among others, La Traviata, Simon Boccanegra, Manon Lescaut, La Bohème, Katja Kabanowa, and Eugene Onegin.
He has been at the conductor’s stand of renowned orchestras, such as the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Staatskapelle Dresden, Hamburg Philharmonics, Gürzenich-Orchestra Cologne, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Museumsorchester Frankfurt, Nationalorchester Mannheim, Bayerische Staatsphilharmonie Nuremberg, as well as the Basel Symphony Orchestra and the New Japan Philharmonic Tokyo.
 
Since the season 2015/16, Christoph Gedschold is the Kapellmeister at the Oper Leipzig conducting a broad repertoire including i.a. Die Zauberflöte, Der Freischütz, Tannhäuser, Hansel and Gretel, Rigoletto, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Pagliacci, Tosca, La Bohème and Madama Butterfly, as well as The Bartered Bride, Rusalka, Bluebeard’s Castle and West Side Story.
 
Upcoming engagements include, among others, Der fliegende Holländer, Rusalka, La Bohème, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Rigoletto and La Traviata at Oper Leipzig, his debut in Spain leading the new production of Götterdämmerung at Opera de Oviedo, Die tote Stadt and Pique Dame at Staatsoper Hamburg, Der Freischütz at Semperoper Dresden, as well as Turandot at Opera Cologne.

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