Biography
Julius Zeman, born in Vienna in 1998, graduated with distinction from the Mozarteum University in Salzburg with degrees in conducting, piano, and organ.
His upcoming engagements as a conductor include concerts with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, the Wiener Symphoniker, the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker and the Orchestra Sinfónica do Porto. With Bachs Christmas Oratorio he will give his debut at the Tyrolean Festival Erl.
From 2023-2026 Julius Zeman worked as a Kapellmeister and répétiteur at the Saarländisches Staatstheater, where he conducted a wide-ranging musical theater repertoire such as Mozarts Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Verdi's Aida, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet and Kálmán's The Duchess of Chicago. His premiere performance of Holsts Savitri and Schoenbergs Erwartung attracted considerable attention from audiences and the press (FAZ: A modern opera highlight!). During that time he also made guest appearances at the Oper Bern with Mozarts Zauberflöte, at the Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg and the Theater im Pfalzbau with Bock's Anatevka.
From the beginning of his musical career, Julius Zeman has been committed to realizing innovative, well-thought-out programs. He repeatedly seeks proximity to the audience in lecture concerts, thus creating new spaces for encounter and shared experience and discovery of great music.
Julius Zeman also regularly performs as a song accompanist and chamber musician with renowned artists, recently for example on Mozart's original fortepiano with Emmanuel Tjeknavorian (violin) at the Mozartwoche Salzburg. Together with Shun Oi, he recorded Anton Bruckner's 7th Symphony in its original version for two pianos for the first time worldwide for the label ARS.
Parallel to his studies, Julius Zeman worked as an assistant conductor with Leo Hussain at the Theater an der Wien and with Leopold Hager, with whom he also collaborated closely as a harpsichordist, organist, and pianist. His cultural studies and music analysis essays have been published in the Freiburger Universitätsblätter and the Literarischer Zaunkönig.
He is a Bösendorfer Artist.
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