ChristophSietzen

The 2024-25 season sees Christoph as Artist in Residence at Koelner Philharmonie, where he brings various programmes alongside the Ancient Academy of Music and Bogdan Bacanu, MOTUS percussion, and Tabea Zimmermann and Mahan Esfahani in a programme for percussion, harpsichord and viola. Christoph will bring Johannes Maria Staud’s concerto Whereas the Reality Trembles to Cologne, with WDR Symphonieorchester and Brad Lubman, followed by performances with SWR Sinfonieorchester in Stuttgart and Hamburg and the Bruckner Orchester in Linz. These concerts follow Christoph’s world premiere performance of the work last season with the Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Most, and the Austrian premiere with Vienna Symphony and Andris Poga.

Other orchestral highlights include Christoph’s debut with HR Sinfonieorchester, performing Detlev Glanert’s percussion concerto in its German premiere alongside Andre de Ridder. Christoph will also bring the work to the Euskadiko Orchestra with Christoph-Mathias Meuller, with whom he recently performed the piece’s world premiere with the Arctic Philharmonic. Christoph has collaborated with orchestras such as the Bavarian, Austrian and Polish Radio Symphony Orchestras, Luxembourg Philharmonic, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg and conductors such as Francois-Xavier Roth, Ilan Volkov, Marin Alsop, Howard Griffiths, Yutaka Sado, Frank Strobel, Alexander Liebreich and Cristian Mandeal.

Upcoming recital highlights include performances at Konzerthaus Berlin in collaboration with Christian Jost, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg with Sao Soulez Lariviere for the ECHO Rising Star concerts and Heidelberger Fruhling Festival with MOTUS Percussion.