AndreasOttensamer

Andreas Ottensamer has captured audiences and critics alike with his distinct musicianship and versatility as conductor, artistic director and clarinettist.

In the 2023-2024 season, Andreas will give conducting debuts with the NHK Symphony Orchestra in a program entirely dedicated to Johannes Brahms, Orchestre Metropolitain Montreal as their Artist in Residence of the season, Seoul Philharmonic, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Sofia Philharmonic, Basel Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonisches Orchester Erfurt, Münchner Kammerorchester, Janáček Philharmonic and the Liszt Chamber Orchestra. Ottensamer will return to conduct the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, having made his Asian conducting debut there in 2023. He will also return to Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra in three programmes, the Aichi Chamber Orchestra and the Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra.

Recent conducting highlights include Seoul’s KBS Symphony Orchestra and collaborations with orchestras such as the MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, the Prague Philharmonia, the Orquestra Gulbenkian in Lisbon, the Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra, the Real Philharmonia Galicia and the Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse. In December 2022 Andreas joined Maestro Riccardo Muti to work on Verdi‘s Messa da Requiem as part of his Italian Opera Academy in Ravenna, Italy and in March 2023 he joined Maestro Muti for the production of Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera at the Tokyo Spring Festival. In 2021 Ottensamer was awarded the Neeme Järvi Prize of the Gstaad Festival Conducting Academy.

His artistic partnerships as a chamber musician include work with Yuja Wang, Seong-Jin Cho, Lisa Batiashvili, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Phillippe Jaroussky, Gautier Capuçon and Sol Gabetta. He regularly performs at festivals such as the Salzburger Festspiele, the Gstaad Menuhin Festival, the Rheingau Musik Festival and the Festival de Pâques d’Aix en Provence.

Ottensamer is Artistic Director of the Bürgenstock Festival and has held the position of principle clarinettist with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra since 2011.