The Austrian conductor Christoph Campestrini received his musical education in the United States. He studied music in New York at The Juilliard School and was admitted to the prestigious founding class of the Yale University/Affiliate Artists Conducting program, where he worked with prominent conductors such as Wolfgang Sawallisch, Lorin Maazel and Kurt Sanderling. In addition he also studied languages and philosophy at Columbia University.
After his return to Europe he started an active international career, conducting more than 100 orchestras on all 5 continents. Among them are the London Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Radio Symphony, Deutsche Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Cologne Radio Symphony, Prague Philharmonia, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Vienna Radio Symphony, Orquestra Metropolitana Lisbon, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Orchestre Lamoureux Paris, Queensland Philharmonic (Australia), National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, Israel Sinfonietta and many others.
He has worked together with soloists such as Gidon Kremer, Julian Rachlin, Rudolf Buchbinder, Alisa Weilerstein and Julia Fischer.
Christoph Campestrini has served as 1.Kapellmeister (Principal Conductor) at the prestigious Essen Aalto Musiktheater in Germany and in addition has appeared in opera productions at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, National Arts Centre Ottawa and The Hongkong Opera Academy. In Japan he conducts annual productions at the Sakai City Opera Osaka, most recently "Rusalka" (Dvorak) and "Cendrillon" (Massenet).
Within the last seasons he has also established an impressive presence in North America. He appears regularily with orchestras such as The Philadelphia Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Chicago Grant Park Festival Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Columbus Symphony, Florida Orchestra, San Antonio Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, National Arts Centre Orchestra Ottawa, Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, Calgary Philharmonic and many others.
In Asia Christoph Campestrini has worked with the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and Korean Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra (KBS) as well as The Hongkong Academy, both in China and on tour.
In Europe he recently conducted New Years concerts at the Teatro Regio Torino (Italy), the opening concert of the Carinthian Summer Festival 2011 (Austria), the Orquesta Sinfonica de Navarra (Spain) and the Hungarian Radio Symphony Budapest.
With the leading Belgian orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège he performed 2011 in Liège and Brussels, as well as in an acclaimed tour appearance at the prestigious Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein.
Highlights of the current season include a Beethoven Gala with Lang Lang and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, a new production of "Werther" (Massenet) at the Minnesota Opera, his debut with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and a tour of France with the Chamber Orchestra of the Vienna Symphony.
Christoph Campestrini has recorded for the labels ORFEO (Munich), SIGNUM (Heidelberg), as well as for the Austrian (ORF), West German (WDR) and Czech (CR) radio stations.
