David Danzmayr, Conductor

Described by ´The Herald´ as "extremely good, concise, clear, incisive and expressive" David Danzmayr is widely regarded as one of the most talented and exciting European conductors of his generation.
Danzmayr is Music Director Designate of the Oregon Symphony, starting his tenure there in the 2021/22 season. He holds the title of Honorary Conductor of the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, where he was serving as Chief Conductor in prior seasons. Performing regularly to sold out audiences in Zagreb´s Lisinski Hall and having been awarded the Zagreb City Award, Danzmayr and the orchestra also toured to the Salzburger Festspielhaus, where they received standing ovations performing the prestigious New Year’s concert and to the Wiener Musikverein.
In addition David is Music Director of the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, an orchestra comprised of musicians from all over the USA. His contract there has recently been extended.
Previously David Danzmayr had served as Music Director of the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra in Chicago, where he was lauded regularly by both the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Classical Review for the performances. He was also the only conductor in the Chicago area, who programmed a piece of American music on every concert.
David has won prizes at some of the world´s most prestigious conducting competitions including at the International Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition and at the International Malko Conducting Competition. For his extraordinary success he has been awarded the Bernhard Paumgartner Medal by the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum.
Propelled by these early successes into a far reaching international career, Danzmayr has quickly become a sought after guest conductor for orchestras around the globe, having worked with the Symphonies of Minnesota, Indianapolis, Detroit, Houston, North Carolina, San Diego, Colorado, Utah, Milwaukee and New Jersey, the Pacific Symphony, Chicago Civic Orchestra, and in Europe the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Bamberg Symphony, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Mozarteum Orchester, Essener Philharmoniker, Hamburger Symphoniker, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Salzburg Chamber Philharmonic, Bruckner Orchester Linz, and the Radio Symphony Orchestras of Vienna and Stuttgart to name a few.
David frequently appears in the world´s major concert halls, such as the Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg, Usher Hall Edinburgh and the Symphony Hall in Chicago. He has served as Assistant Conductor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, performing in all the major Scottish concert halls and in the prestigious, Orkney based, St Magnus Festival.
David Danzmayr received his musical training at the University Mozarteum in Salzburg where, after initially studying piano, he went on to study conducting in the class of Dennis Russell Davies. He finished his studies with the highest honours.
Danzmayr was strongly influenced by Pierre Boulez and Claudio Abbado in his time as conducting stipendiate of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and by Leif Segerstam during his additional studies in the conducting class of the Sibelius Academy. Subsequently he gained significant experience as assistant to Neeme Järvi, Stephane Deneve, Carlos Kalmar, Sir Andrew Davis and Pierre Boulez, who entrusted Danzmayr with the preparatory rehearsals for his own music.
Samuel Barber
Adagio for Strings, op. 11
Béla Bartók
Concerto for Orchestra
Romanian Folk Dances
Divertimento for Strings
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 1 C-Major, op. 21
Symphony No. 2 D-Major, op. 36
Symphony No. 3 E flat-Major, op. 55, »Eroica«
Symphony No. 4 B flat-Major, op. 60
Symphony No. 5 c-minor, op. 67
Symphony No. 6 F-Major, op. 68, »Pastorale«
Symphony No. 7 A-Major, op. 92
Symphony No. 8 F major, op. 93
Symphony No. 9 d-minor, op. 125
Symphony No. 10 E flat-Major (1st movement, reconstructed by Barry Cooper)
Overture to »Leonore« No. 3 C-Major, op. 72
Overture to »Coriolan« c-minor, op. 62
»Egmont« Overture f-minor, op. 84
Alban Berg
3 Stücke aus der »Lyrischen Suite«
Leonard Bernstein
»West Side Story« Symphonic Dances and Overture
»Candide« Overture
Blagoje Bersa
Dramatic Overture, op. 25a
Idila, op. 25b
Capriccio Scherzo, op. 25c
Georges Bizet
»L’Arlesienne«, Suite No. 1 & 2
»Carmen«, Suite No. 1
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 1 c-minor, op. 68
Symphony No. 2 D-Major, op. 73
Symphony No. 3 F-Major, op. 90
Symphony No. 4 e-minor, op. 98
Benjamin Britten
»Young Person´s Guide to the Orchestra«
»Four Sea Interludes«
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 4 E flat-Major
Symphony No. 5 B-flat major, WAB 105
Symphony No. 7 E-Major
Ferruccio Busoni
Tanzwalzer, op. 53
Aaron Copland
»Music for the Theater«
»Fanfare for the Common Man«
»Lincoln Portrait«
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto grosso op. 6, No. 8 in g-minor, »Christmas Concerto«
Concerto grosso op. 6, No. 3 in c-minor
Claude Debussy
Images for Orchestra No. 2, »Ibéria«
»La Mer«
»Children‘s Corner«
»Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune«
Leo Delibes
»Coppelia« Suite
Paul Dukas
»The Sorcerer´s Apprentice «
Antonin Dvořák
Symphony No. 7 d-minor, op. 70
Symphony No. 8 G-Major, op. 88
Symphony No. 9 e-minor, op. 95, »From the New World «
Serenade d-minor, op. 44
»In Nature´s Realm «, Concert Overture, op. 91
»Carnival«, Concert Overture, op. 92
»Othello«, Concert Overture, op. 93
Edward Elgar
»Pomp and Circumstance« March No. 1
»Enigma Variations«
Serenade for Strings, op. 20
Duke Ellington/Tchaikovsky
Nutcracker Suite
Manuel de Falla
»Three Cornered Hat« (Ballet and Suites No. 1 & 2)
Cesar Franck
Symphony in d minor
Francesco Geminiani
Concerto grosso d-minor »La Folia«
Edvard Grieg
»Holberg« Suite, op. 40
»Peer Gynt« Suite No. 1, op. 46
Elegiac Melody
Georg Friedrich Händel
Water Music, Suite Nr. 2
Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 34 d-minor
Symphony No. 45 f sharp-minor, »Farewell Symphony«
Symphony Nr. 75 D-Major
Symphony No. 90 C-Major
Symphony No. 92 G-Major »Oxford«
Symphony No. 104 D-major
Michael Haydn
Music for Voltaire´s »Zaide«
Paul Hindemith
Chamber Music No. 4, op. 36 No. 3
Concert Music for Strings and Brass, op. 50
Gustav Theodore Holst
»The Planets«, op. 32
Charles Edward Ives
»Three places in new England«
Leoš Janáček
»Taras Bulba«
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
»Straussiana«
Joseph Martin Kraus
Overture d minor to »Olympia«
Franz Lehár
»A Vision, my Youth«
Overture to »The Land of Smiles«
Anatoly Liadov
»Baba Yaga«
MacCunn
»The Land of Mountain and Flood«
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 1 D Major
Symphony No. 2 c-minor, »Resurrection Symphony«
Symphony No. 3 d-minor
Symphony No. 4 G-Major
Symphony No. 5 c sharp-minor
Symphony No. 6 a-minor
Songs of a Wayfarer
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Overture b-minor, op. 26, »The Hebrides«
»A Midsummer Night´s Dream« op.21 and op. 61
Symphony No. 3 a-minor, op. 56, »Scottish«
Symphony No. 5 d-minor, op. 107, »Reformation«
Darius Milhaud
»Le boeuf sur le toit«
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 29 A-Major, KV 201
Symphony No. 34 C major, KV 338
Symphony No. 35 D-Major, KV 385, »Haffner«
Symphony No. 36 C-Major, KV 425, »Linzer«
Symphony No. 37 G-Major, KV 444 (actually M. Haydn)
Symphony No. 38 D-Major, KV 504, »Prague«
Symphony No. 39 E flat-Major, KV 543
Symphony No. 40 g-minor, KV 550
Symphony No. 41 C-Major, KV 551, »Jupiter«
»The Magic Flute«, KV 620
»Gran Partita«, KV 361
Great Mass in c minor, KV 427
Requiem, KV 626
Divertimento D-Major, KV 136
Divertimento F-Major, KV 138
Overture to »The Marriage of Figaro«
Overture to »Don Giovanni«
Selections from »Les Petits Tiens« KV 10/299b
Serenade in G, KV 525 »Eine kleine Nachtmusik«
Symphony No. 32 G-Major, KV 318
Modest Mussorgsky-Ravel
»Pictures at an Exhibition«
»Night on a bald mountain«
Carl Nielsen
Little Suite
»Pan and Syrinx«
Carl Orff
»Carmina burana«
Hubert Parry
»Blest pair of sirens«
Walter Piston
»The incredible flutist«
Sergej Prokofjew
»Romeo and Juliet«, Suites 1, 2, 3
Symphony No. 1, »Classique«
Symphony No. 7 c-sharp minor, op. 131
»Cinderella«
Giacomo Puccini
»La Bohème«
Maurice Ravel
»Bolero«
Ottorino Respighi
Fountains of Rome
Ancient Airs and Dances No. 3
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
»Sheherazade«
Gioacchino Rossini
Overture to »The Barber of Seville«
Camille Saint Saens
»Christmas Oratorio«
Dmitri Schostakovitch
Symphony No. 5 d-minor, op. 47
Symphony No. 12 d-minor, op. 112
»Festival Overture«, op. 96
Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 1 D major, D 82
Symphony No. 2 B-flat major, D 125
Symphony No. 3 D major, D 200
Symphony No. 4 c-minor, D 417
Symphony No. 5 B flat-Major, D 485
Symphony No. 6 C major, D 589
Symphony No. 7 b-minor, D 759, »Unfinished«
Symphony No. 7 b-Minor, D 759 completed version
(B. Newbould, M. Venzago)
Symphony No. 9 C major, D 944
Symphony No. 10 D major, D 936A
(reconstructed by Brian Newbould)
Overture to »Rosamunde«
Mass No. 5
6 German Dances
Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 2 C-Major, op. 61
Alexander Scriabin
»Poeme de extase«
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 1 e-minor, op. 39
Symphony No. 4 a-minor, op. 63
»Finlandia«
»The swan of Tuonela«
Bedřich Smetana
Overture to »The Bartered Bride«
Johann Strauss, Sohn
Overture to »The Bat«
Waltzes and Polkas
Richard Strauss
»Don Juan«, op. 20
»Till Eulenspiegels Merry Pranks«, op. 28
»Burleske«
Suite op. 4
Also Sprach Zarathustra
Rosenkavalier Suite
Igor Strawinsky
»The Firebird«, Suite 1919 & Suite 1945
»Dumberton Oaks«
»Histoire du soldat«
»Circus Polka«
»Pulcinella« Suite
Franz von Suppe
Overture to the Beautiful Galathea
Johan Svendsen
Symphony No. 2 B flat-Major, op. 15
Villem Tausky
Coventry ***
Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowski
Symphony No. 2 c-minor, op. 17
Symphony No. 4 f-minor, op. 36
Symphony No. 5 e-minor, op. 64
Symphony No. 6 b-minor, op. 74, »Pathétique«
»The Nutcracker« Suite, op. 71a
»Swan Lake« Suite
»Romeo and Juliet« Overture
Serenade for Strings, op. 48
Tommaso Traetta
Armida Overture
Richard Wagner
»Ride of the Valkyries«, WWV 86 B
»Siegfried Idyll«
»Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod«
Overture to »Rienzi«
Overture to »Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg«
Carl Maria von Weber
Overture to »Freischütz«, op. 77, J. 277
Overture to »Oberon«, J. 306
Anton Webern
Concert, op. 24
6 Pieces for orchestra
Langsamer Satz
Ralph Vaughan Williams
»Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis«
»Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus«
Norfolk Rhapsody No. 2
Alexander von Zemlinsky
Symphony No. 1 d-minor ***
CONTEMPORARY REPERTOIRE
Actor, L.
Divertimento for small orchestra
Dance Suite
Opening Remarks
Ades, T.
These premises are alarmed
Ager, K.
Gesang zur Nacht
Akiho, A.
Percussion Concerto*
Alvarez, J.
Brazos de Niebla*
Arnold, M.
English dance Nr. 4
Tam o’Shanter Overture
Auerbach, L.
Eterniday
Icarus
Concerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra*
Bacewicz, G.
Overture
Bolcom, W.
Commedia for 18th Century Orchestra
Boulez, P.
Memoriales
Brkanovic, I.
Piano Concerto
Brouwer, L.
Concierto de lieja
Tres Danzas Concertantes
Cech, Ch.
S´ Herz
Clyne, A.
Within her arms
Danzmayr, W.
Tableux Epilog *
Get up Salzburg
Wes Ohr diese Musique höret *
Transkript
Die Ballade vom Träumer *
Heira´s Schwester
Elegie (orchestral version) *
Daugherty, M.
Deus ex machina **
deRoo, M.
Seelenwanderung – Ostwind*
Doss, T.
Seitenwindspiele
Wurdalak*
Drakulic, S.
Novo Djelo*
Ebrisim, D.
Sei du mein Trost *
Eder, H.
Entreacte
Eryilmaz, E.
Wrestling Airs*
Fogg, E.
Bassoon concerto
Fulmer, D.
Jauchzende Bögen ***
Fürst, P.W.
Seis ventanas
Getty, G.
Overture to Plump Jack
Gilbertson, M.
The Cosmos*
Golijov, O.
Last round
Sidereus
ZZ´s Dream
Three songs
Grassl, H.
Frisch voran
Grime, H.
Percussion Concerto*
Gulda, F.
Concerto for myself
Konzert für Violoncello und Blasorchester
Haas, G.F.
Tria ex uno
Harvey, H.
Recorder concerto
Higdon, J.
Percussion concerto
Hillborg, A.
Four Transitory Worlds
Holten, B.
Gaudi Pageant
Hummel, S.D.
Behind the Quietness *
Irgmaier, J.
Zum arabischen Coffee Baum
Jacob, G.
Double Bass concerto
Kantscheli, G.
Midday prayers
Kelemen, M.
Preludio
Kernis, A.
Musica Celestis
Koppel, A.
Marimbaphoneconcerto Nr. 1
Marimbaphoneconcerto Nr. 3
Kotschy, J.
Es ist genug*
Krall, J.
fortune – foatsch(o)n *
Kühr, G.
Ohne Antwort
Larsen, L.
Symphony Water Music
Lazic, D.
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
Lee, Y.K.
If Mahler would weep
Leitner, E. L.
Drei Moritaten nach Texten von Richard Bletschacher *
Lena Frank, G.
Five Dances*
Elegia Andina
Liebermann, L.
Flute concerto
Ligeti, G.
Mysteries of the Macabre
Melodien
Violin Concerto
Lopez, J.
Fiesta
Lothar, M.
Momo
MacMillan, C.
Veni, veni, Emmanuel
Seraph
Marquez, A.
Danzon No. 2
Miani, R.
Doubles II
Montero, G.
Babel *
Morlock, J.
Solace
Nikiteanu, A.
Der klingende Stein*
Nussbichler, L.
Schattenspiele IV - jeu de mime
Norman, A.
Switch
Palanovic, D.
In medio Ignis*
Three Croatian Folk Dances for Orchestra*
Pärt, A.
Wenn Bach Bienen gezüchtet hätte
Penderecki, K.
De natura sonoris, Nr. 3
Piazzola, A.
Concierto para quinteto (arr. Zamastil) *
Quatro estaciones porteñas (arr. Desyatnikov)
Fuga y misterio
Coral (arr. Califfi for string orchestra)
Platts, K.
Tapestries
Popovitch, I.
Der Brief für meinen Vater *
Puts, K.
How Wild the Sea
Puckett, J.
Concerto Duo
Richardson-Schulte, A.
The sleeping giant
Richter, M.
On the nature of daylight
Richter, M./Vivaldi, A.
The four seasons recomposed
Rissman, P.
The three Wee Hens *
Supersonic
Rodriguez, J.G.
Polly Nichol‘s Sketch
Roman, J.
Awakening*
Rosauro, N.
Marimbaphoneconcerto
Roscher, W.
Musik daran die Welten hägen
Rota, N.
Divertimento concertante
Schmidt, H.
Antonietta (Violakonzert Nr. 2) *
Aphorismen *
Schnittke, A.
Violinkonzert
Schuller, G.
Concerto for string quartet and orchestra
Schwertsik, K.
Now you hear me, now you don´t
Scofano, R.
Ibera (Bandoneon Concerto)*
Seierl, W.
Fünf Frauen *
Kette - Schaltung - Schwarz
Spin II *
Funk II *
Karnak *
Sipus, B.
E sarai solo sul lago
Snider, S.
Something for the dark
Steinkogler, S.
Das Lied der Zither *
Stills, W. G.
The East
Stills, W. G.
The East
Stout, C.
Tingaholm *
Tao, C.
Over*
Traiger, L.
Re-Inventions *
Tuscano, F.
Strofe *
Varese, E.
Octandre
Vereno, K.
Pirouette *
Danse melancolique *
Waksman, F.
Solarstorm
Walker G.
Lyric for Strings
Watkins, H.
Three Welsh Songs ***
Little Symphony ***
Williams, J.
Horn Concerto
Wimberger, G.
Bachonanzen
Winther Christensen, Ch.
Viola Concerto*
Zamastil, W.
Le mouton enrage *
Archive IV / Passacaglia *
Zender, H.
Orchestral Arrangements of 5 Preludes by Debussy
* = World premiere, ** = UK premiere, *** = US premiere
Representation:
DK, NO, SE, FI, IS