Marcus Bosch

Curriculum Vitae

Marcus Bosch is one of the most prominent and innovative minds in the German conducting scene, a sought-after guest conductor globally, and head of an extremely successful conducting class.
His conducting has been described as “a new benchmark of classical clarity and depth.”

Since 2010, Marcus Bosch has been Artistic Director of the Opera Festival in his hometown of Heidenheim, which he has developed into one of Europe’s most successful classical festivals (“Best Festival 2025”). A key factor in this success was the founding and development of the festival’s own orchestra, Cappella Aquileia, which, under his direction, has drawn international attention with acclaimed concerts and recordings — including early Verdi operas, Beethoven’s stage music, and the complete Schumann symphonies.
The Gramophone Magazine praised the Beethoven recordings as “reference recordings" and labelled Marcus Bosch as “one of the 10 leading Bruckner conductors of today” (January 2024 issue).

Twice awarded the Opus Klassik, the German conductor of Brazilian-Italian heritage began his career with positions at the state theatres of Wiesbaden, Halle, and Saarbrücken, later serving as Chief Conductor of the Kammerphilharmonie Graubünden, General Music Director (GMD) in Aachen from 2002 to 2012, and then GMD of both the Staatsphilharmonie and State Theatre in Nuremberg from 2011 to 2018.

Since 2016, Bosch has been a highly successful Professor of Conducting in Munich, where he also leads the University Symphony Orchestra. In addition, he is Chief Conductor of the North German Philharmonic in Rostock and Principal Guest Conductor of the Bodensee Philharmonie.
Upcoming engagements will take him to National Centre of Performing Arts in Beijing (Siegfried), Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra, Catania, Parma (La Toscanini), Verona, Palermo, Wexford (Il trovatore), and Stuttgart.
Marcus Bosch has conducted over 100 orchestras worldwide, including the Semperoper and the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. He has also worked with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, and Orchester National de Lyon, as well as various orchestras in cities such as Seville, Bilbao, and Gran Canaria, and at the opera houses in Gothenburg, Basel, Verona, and Modena. Additionally, he has developed close connections with the Hamburg State Opera, Stuttgart Philharmonic, Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana Palermo, Orquesta Sinfonica des Islas Baleares, and Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz as principal guest conductor.

His operatic repertoire includes more than 110 musical theater works, including major projects such as Wagner's Ring tetralogy and Berlioz's Les Troyens. The live CD recordings of Anton Bruckner's symphonies with the Aachen Symphony Orchestra caused an international sensation. “An exciting listening experience,” was the verdict of Kulturspiegel, and WDR concluded that the Aachen cycle “doesn’t need to fear any prominent names.” The Brahms recordings also confirmed the outstanding quality that Bosch had achieved with the Aachen Orchestra. In Nuremberg, Marcus Bosch achieved a similar feat by recording all of Dvorák's symphonies and the symphonic poems. Klassik.com spoke of a “lucky stroke for all Dvorák fans”.
In general, the “listening seducer”, as Deutschlandfunk Kultur called him, is constantly taking new and innovative paths: Bosch frequently develops new concert and event formats and conducted the world’s first freely accessible live internet broadcast (“Salome” in Aachen) in 2008. In 2012 the first opera premiere broadcast live in cinemas (“Tristan and Isolde” in Nuremberg). With the Nuremberg Klassik Open Air, he repeatedly led the largest classical music event in Europe.
Marcus Bosch maintains a stylistically broad concert and opera repertoire from the baroque to the contemporary. He has been responsible for numerous premieres and worked with influential stage directors such as Peter Konwitschny, Calixto Bieito and Stéphane Braunschweig as well as internationally known singers and instrumental soloists.

He has also served as Chairman of the German GMD and Chief Conductors’ Conference since its founding in 2012.


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