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| | Dohnányi Christoph von | | direttore d'orchestra |   
| Born in Berlin, Christoph von Dohnányi began to study law in Munich. After two years he chose to join the Munich Academy of Music to study composition, piano and conducting. At the end of his studies, he was awarded the Richard Strauss Prize by the City of Munich. He then went to Florida State University to continue to study with his grandfather, Ernst von Dohnányi. |
| In 1953 Christoph von Dohnányi was appointed repetiteur and conductor at the Frankfurt Opera by Sir Georg Solti. At the age of 27 he moved to Lübeck where he became Germany's youngest General Music Director, before being appointed Chief Conductor of the Westdeutsche Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester in Cologne. He held positions as General Music Director and Opera Director in Frankfurt, and was Intendant and Chief Conductor of Hamburg Opera. During his tenures in Frankfurt and Hamburg he aimed to balance productions of traditional opera and innovative music theatre. Stage directors and designers such as András Fricsay, Klaus Michael Grüber, Peter Mussbach, Rudolf Noelte, Volker Schlöndorff, Erich Wonder, Luc Bondy, Jürgen Flimm, Herbert Wernicke and Achim Freyer made highly acclaimed débuts at this time. Agnes Baltsa, Ileana Cotrubas, Eva Marton, Julia Varady and Hildegard Behrens also launched their international careers in Frankfurt, whilst Dohnányi himself directed new productions of Le nozze di Figaro and Fidelio. |
| In December 1981 Christoph von Dohnányi first conducted The Cleveland Orchestra and was appointed Music Director Designate the following year. He served as Music Director from September 1984 to August 2002, and became Music Director Laureate in September 2002. In addition to subscription concerts in Cleveland, Dohnányi and the orchestra have appeared throughout the USA, Asia and Europe, including visits to the Salzburg Festival, Proms and Edinburgh Festival, and have been in residence at Carnegie Hall. In May 1998, for the first time in the orchestra's history, they performed in China. During Dohnányi's tenure, the orchestra's musical home, Severance Hall, was renovated and expanded, and the restoration of the magnificent Norton Memorial Organ brought the instrument back into the concert life of Cleveland. |
| With The Cleveland Orchestra he has recorded the complete symphonies of Beethoven, Brahms and Schumann, selected symphonies by Bruckner, Dvorák, Mahler, Mozart, Schubert and Tchaikovsky, and works by Adams, Bartók, Berlioz, Birtwistle, Busoni, Ives, Ravel, Richard Strauss, Varèse and Webern. Operatic recordings include Wagner's Die Walküre and Das Rheingold. |
| Dohnányi's discography with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra includes Beethoven's Fidelio, Berg's Wozzeck and Lulu, Schoenberg's Erwartung, Richard Strauss's Salome, Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer and symphonic works by Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky. He has also recorded the Violin Concertos of Glass and Schnittke with Gidon Kremer, the Dvorák Piano Concerto with András Schiff and chamber music transcriptions for orchestra of Beethoven?s String Quartet Op.95 by Mahler and Brahms Piano Quartet in G minor by Schoenberg. |
| As a regular guest at the Salzburg Festival, Christoph von Dohnányi has led the Vienna Philharmonic in several new productions, including Der Rosenkavalier, Salome, Così fan tutte, Schoenberg's Erwartung, Bartók's Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Die Zauberflöte and Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos. Also in Salzburg he conducted the Vienna Philharmonic in the world premières of Henze's Die Bassariden and Cerha's Baal. |
| Christoph von Dohnányi has BEEN INVITED as a guest conductor at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, for whom he conducted Die Frau ohne Schatten last season, La Scala Milan, Metropolitan Opera New York, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Zurich Opera and Vienna State Opera, where he conducted the new production of the complete 'Der Ring des Nibelungen' by Richard Wagner in 1992/93. He has appeared as guest conductor with the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Orchestre de Paris, New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Chicago Symphony and Boston Symphony Orchestras. |
| In September 1997 Christoph von Dohnányi became Principal Conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra having been its Principal Guest Conductor since 1994. In addition to their subscription series in London's Royal Festival Hall, he has conducted the Orchestra in a number of productions at the Châtelet Theatre in Paris, including Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten, Schoenberg's Moses und Aron, Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex, Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel, Strauss's Die Schweigsame Frau, and Strauss's Arabella. In Summer 2002, Christoph von Dohnányi and the Philharmonia Orchestra opened the Edinburgh Festival, appeared at the Proms and were invited for two concerts at the Luzern Festival.@ @Christoph von Dohnányi has recently signed a contract as Chief Conductor of the NDR Symphony Orchestra in Hamburg, a position which will commence in the season 2004/05. |
| Christoph von Dohnányi's future plans include guest appearances at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Zurich Opera, the Boston and Chicago Symphony, LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC, Israel Philharmonic, and concerts with the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, BBC Proms and on tour in the USA. |
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