ChristophSietzen

The 2023 - 24 season sees Christoph make his Cleveland Orchestra debut with the world premiere of Johannes Maria Staud’s percussion concerto Whereas the Reality Trembles, conducted by Franz Welser-Möst. He will also bring Staud’s concerto to the Vienna Symphony for its Austrian premiere. Also this season, Christoph brings the world premiere of Glanert’s Percussion Concerto to the Arctic Philharmonic at the Bodø BEAT festival. Other orchestral highlights include Kammerakademie Potsdam and Academy of Ancient Music in Vienna and Viersen. Christoph will perform recitals with Motus Percussion at Klangspuren Schwaz, the Wave Quartet at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and an organ duo with Christian Schmitt at Musikverein Graz, amongst others.

Christoph regularly performs at prestigious venues such as Vienna’s Konzerthaus and Musikverein, Salzburg’s Great Festival Hall and Mozarteum, Romanian Atheneum in Bucharest, Philharmonie Luxembourg, London’s Barbican Centre, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Berlin’s Konzerthaus, Cologne’s Philharmonie, Müpa Budapest, Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Palau de la Música Barcelona, Stockholm Konserthuset, Bozar Brussels, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Suntory Hall in Tokyo as well as at festivals such as Salzburg and Grafenegg.

His orchestral collaborations include the Bavarian, Austrian and Polish Radio Symphony orchestras, Luxembourg Philharmonic, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, as well as the Academy of Ancient Music with conductors such as François-Xavier Roth, Ilan Volkov, Marin Alsop, Howard Griffiths, Yutaka Sado, Frank Strobel, Alexander Liebreich and Cristian Mandeal.