Dirigent
Biography:
MARKUS ELSNER studied conducting with Ulrich Weder and Edwin Scholz. He received important impulses for his work from master classes with Jorma Panula. As a guest conductor at the Teatr Wielki Lodzs (Poland), at the Ukrainian National Opera in Lviv, at the Freies Landestheater Bayern and in numerous touring productions, he has developed a repertoire of more than 30 operas. Obligations as a conductor of various chamber orchestras have also taken him to Austria, Bulgaria and the Ukraine. Markus Elsner is intensively committed to contemporary music and has conducted numerous premieres and first performances. In 2006 he founded the Ensemble Zeitsprung, and since 2011 he has been the artistic director of the Bamberg New Music Days. He has received many awards for his work, including the Bavarian Art Promotion Prize. In 2008 he was a scholarship holder at the International Artists' House Villa Concordia in Bamberg.
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