Mario Venzago
MARIO VENZAGO
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BIOGRAPHY
Mario Venzago was, until summer 2021 and for 11 years, the Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Bern Symphony Orchestra. Before, he has led as Principal Conductor or General Music Director, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Basque National Orchestra in San Sebastian, Basel Symphony Orchestra, Graz Opera und Graz Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Frankfurt (now Bremen), Theatre and Philharmonic Orchestra of the City of Heidelberg and Musikkollegium Winterthur. From 2010 to 2014 he was Principal Conductor of Royal Northern Sinfonia, from 2010 to 2019 Artist in Association of the Finnish Tapiola Sinfonietta and from 2000 to 2003 Artistic Director of Baltimore Summer Fest, as successor to Pinchas Zukermann and David Zinman.
The 2024-25 season sees Mario Venzago conducting the Taiwan Philharmonic,Singapore Symphony, Malmo Symphony, Estonian National Orchestra, and in North America, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. The 2023/24 season took him to the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, to Asia to the Yomiuri Nippon, Singapore and KBS Symphony Orchestras, to the Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, Berner Symphonieorchester, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Staatskapelle Halle, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz and many others.
Mario Venzago has conducted Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the orchestras in Philadelphia and Boston, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Filarmonica della Scala and NHK Symphony Orchestra. He is a regular guest conductor with internationally renowned orchestras such as Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Konzerthausorchester Berlin and Frankfurter Museumsorchester. He has given concerts with the world's most famous soloists, and collaborated with directors such as Ruth Berghaus, Peter Konwitschny and Hans Neuenfels.
Several of Venzago’s CDs have won international prizes such as the Grand Prix du Disque, the Diapason d'or and the Edison Award. His recordings of the operas “Venus” and “Penthesilea” and of all choral works by Othmar Schoeck with the MDR choir and symphony orchestra received great international recognition and prestigious awards, as did his first film, “My Brother the Conductor” by Alberto Venzago, which was shown in cinemas across Europe and brought out on DVD. The project “The other Bruckner” with the recording of all ten symphonies, whose individual releases were acclaimed by international critics, was released at CPO. A collaboration with Sony Classical led to the spectacular recording of Franz Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony with the Kammerorchester Basel, completed and conducted by Mario Venzago, and the recording of all serenades and symphonies by Johannes Brahms. The most recent CD projects have been recordings of Othmar Schoeck’s opera “Schloss Dürande” in a new version with Berner Symphonieorchester, the cantata “Vom Fischer und syner Fru” with Musikkollegium Winterthur (both Claves) and the recording of Schubert's reconstructed 7th Symphony with Bern Symphony Orchestra (Prospero). In June 2023, the recording of the Suite from Bernard Herrmann's “Wuthering Heights” with Singapore Symphony Orchestra was released on Chandos Records.
2024/2025
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