Philippvon Steinaecker

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About Philipp

Music Director, Mahler Academy & Orchestra

Drawing on profound musical insight, Philipp von Steinaecker is a thoughtful and versatile conductor whose reputation continues to grow across an exceptionally broad repertoire, spanning from Baroque & Early Classical to German Romanticism and the Second Viennese School. His passion for historically informed performance practice led him to found the Mahler Academy’s Originalklang project—an internationally acclaimed initiative that brings together leading musicians from Europe’s foremost orchestras alongside outstanding young talents to rediscover the original sound world of Mahler’s Viennese orchestra.

In 2024, the Mahler Academy undertook a major European tour, offering audiences in Vienna, Amsterdam, Paris, and Cologne a unique listening experience that vividly captured the authentic essence of Mahler’s music. A further major European tour with the orchestra is planned for summer 2026.

Steinaecker’s expanding roster of orchestral collaborations includes the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Orchestra, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, SWR Symphonieorchester, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. He also served as Principal Guest Conductor of the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra from 2019 - 2022.

Philipp is based in Bolzano

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Season Highlights

Aug 2026
Various
European Tour: Mahler Academy Orchestra Mahler: Symphony No. 9 Performances in Bolzano, Toblach, Stresa, London, Cologne, Amsterdam, Linz, Vienna & Hamburg

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Sample Programmes

  • The Last Symphony

    Schönberg 1. Kammersymphonie 1906 ——— Strauss Alpen-Symphonie 1914

  • Per aspera ad astra

    Schumann Manfred Overture Schumann Nachtlied Schumann Genoveva Overture ——— Schumann Symphony N.2

  • Strauss-Dyptich

    Don Quixote - Satyricon ——— Heldenleben - Tragedy und Apotheosis

  • Identity

    Wagner Parsifal-Vorspiel and Karfreitagsmusik Benjamin Dream of the song ——— Mendelssohn Symphony No. 5 'Reformation' or Wagner Parsifal-Vorspiel Liegti Violin Concerto ——— Mendelssohn Symphony No. 5 'Reformation'

  • Love in the 30s

    Berg: Lulu-Suite ——— R.Strauss: Liebe der Danae Act 3

  • Biedermeier-Romantik

    Spohr Jessonda Ouverture Schubert/Reger Gretchen am Spinnrade Schubert/Webern Du bist die Ruh Schubert/Schubert An Sylvia Schubert/Britten Die Forelle Schubert/Brahms Ellens zweiter Gesang Schubert/Berlioz Der Erlkönig Wagner Die Feen Ouverture ——— Schubert Symphonie Nr.1

  • Alpine summer vacations 1909/10

    Schönberg Five pieces for Orchestra Mahler Adagio X ——— Strauss Rosenkavalier Suite (own arrangement)

  • Mondgesteine

    Schubert 3.Symphonie Berg Sieben frühe Lieder ——— Bruckner 1.Symphonie (or 4 3, 4, 7)

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  • Orquesta Ciudad de Granada | Beethoven Symphony No. 5

    Auditorio Manuel de Falla, Granada
    Jan 2026

    • Philipp von Steinaecker, a conductor of clear gesture and deep musical thought, impressed with an agile, highly animated approach which—stripped of all artifice—revealed a background closely linked to historically informed performance practice. This translated into readings attentive to detail, without ever becoming merely academic. His work with the OCG showed careful planning of musical discourse, constant attention to internal balance, and an organic conception of form, particularly evident in the concert’s overall dramatic progression. Steinaecker also demonstrated a natural ability to adapt to the different aesthetic worlds of the programme, without forcing common traits, while endowing the evening as a whole with a shared expressive logic.

  • Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Mendelssohn Scottish

    Vienna Konzerthaus, Berlin Philharmonie, Köln Philharmonie, Augsburg Mozartfest
    May 2025

    • Steinaecker plays out this high-wire act with courage and conviction, pushing it to the very edge without ever letting the thread snap…. He and the MCO do not shy away from the abyssal shadows lurking beneath the supposed idyll, and after the interval, they launch an outright attack, sweeping away Wagner’s defamatory tirades against Mendelssohn’s music. The Scottish Symphony emerges gleaming with spray—whipped up, surging, and overflowing—right to the limits of what the Kammermusiksaal [of the Philharmonie] can contain. Dramatic bliss.

      • Tagesspiegel
      • 28 May 2025

  • Mahler Symphony No. 5 | Mahler Academy Orchestra

    European Tour
    Sep 2024

    • It felt as if Gustav Mahler himself was back in the building. Words are inadequate to describe this transformative experience... von Steinaecker conducting marvellously from memory, always a beacon of calm and overview.

      • Trouw
      • 14 September 2024

    • This interpretation could be one of the few that will one day be called trend-setting.

      • Neue Zürcher Zeitung
      • 10 August 2024

    • Transparent, heart-breaking, shatteringly modern: this is how one wants to hear all Mahler symphonies from now on.

      • Der Tagesspiegel
      • 21 July 2024

    • The Mahleriatics around Philipp von Steinaecker achieve an unrivalled audience triumph with the Fifth Symphony

      • Süddeutsche Zeitung
      • 12 September 2024

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