Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck

The Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck (TSOI) was founded in 1893 on the occasion of the first Tyrolean Provincial Exhibition by Musikverein teacher Martin Spörr - later co-founder and director of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Greats of music such as Otmar Suitner, Hans Knappertsbusch, Leonie Ry¬sanek and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, who belonged to the orchestra as a cellist, performed with the orchestra in Innsbruck. Since then, the TSOI has given concerts with a long list of soloists and guest conductors of international renown and, in addition to cultivating the classical concert repertoire, has premiered numerous works primarily by Austrian composers. The annual concert programme includes eight symphony concerts, the New Year's concerts in Innsbruck, Kufstein and Reutte as well as the open air concert at the Innsbruck Promenade Concerts. The TSOI has played the opening concert at the Klangspuren for many years. As the orchestra of the Tyrolean Landestheater, it also participates in all of the theatre's musical performances, from operas to musicals. With its ZUGABE programme, the TSOI focuses increasingly on music education and reaches out to children and young people of all ages with its concert education programmes. Chamber music concert formats for adults are also being steadily expanded. After Kasper de Roo, Georg Schmöhe, Dietfried Bernet and Georg Fritzsch, the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck has been able to win sought-after conductors of the younger generation - such as Christoph Altstaedt and Francesco Angelico - as principal conductors in recent seasons. With the 2019.20 season, the young Briton Kerem Hasan took over the position of principal conductor in the TSOI's concert section. The South Tyrolean Lukas Beikircher is the musical director of the music theatre section of the Landestheater.

 

Bernhard Sieberer studied conducting at the Innsbruck Conservatory with Edgar Seipenbusch and completed master classes with Sergiu Celibidache in Mainz, with Michael Gielen at the Mozarteum Salzburg and in Milan as part of a scholarship from the Alban Berg Foundation. From 1986 to 1992 he was the musical director of the Europasommer in Fiecht. Since 1988 he has regularly taught conducting, percussion technique and choral conducting at choral conducting courses and in seminars in Lower Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Tyrol and Vorarlberg, including at the Academia Vocalis; he has repeatedly led two-year choral conducting seminars in Innsbruck. From 2008 to 2010 he taught in Egypt and was responsible for sustainable musical development at the Sekem Initiative and at the Heliopolis Academy in Cairo. He was a permanent guest conductor with the chamber choir Jauna Muzika in Vilnius and has been the cultural representative of the city of Kufstein since 1993. From 2015 to 2017 he developed and supervised a choir programme for ORF Radio Tirol. Since 2020, he has been in charge of the choral conducting course at the Tyrolean State Conservatory and the Conservatory Choir for students of the Tyrolean State Conservatory and the Mozarteum Salzburg.