short vita

Moritz Gnann has been teaching accompaniment and score reading at the UdK Berlin since 2022 and is also in charge of the opera conducting program, where he regularly leads courses. His work as a conductor encompasses a broad symphonic and operatic repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to contemporary music. Moritz Gnann began his professional career at the Theater Aachen. This was followed by positions at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, the Landestheater Coburg, and the Deutsche Oper Berlin, before he joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra as an assistant conductor. There, he made his debut with Mahler’s First Symphony at Tanglewood; further performances with the orchestra at Boston Symphony Hall and Tanglewood followed.
His artistic development was shaped by his collaborations with Andris Nelsons and Christian Thielemann, as well as his regular work at the Bayreuth Festival from 2010 to 2016.
As a guest conductor, Moritz Gnann has worked with, among others, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, the Suzhou Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Badische Staatskapelle, and the Kiel Philharmonic Orchestra.
In the field of musical theater, he has conducted at venues including the Semperoper in Dresden, the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, the Volksoper in Vienna, the Leipzig Opera, and the Staatstheater in Kassel, as well as at the Soirées Lyriques de Sanxay, where he most recently conducted new productions of Puccini’s La Bohème and Mozart’s The Magic Flute.