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 the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, the Wiener Symphoniker, the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, the Orchestra Sinfónica do Porto and the Tyrolean Festival Erl.
From 2023-2026 Julius Zeman was Kapellmeister 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 Julius Zeman 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, he has been committed to realizing innovative, well-thought-out programs and the associated music education. Julius Zeman therefore 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 regularly performs as a song accompanist and chamber musician with renowned artists. For example, he performed 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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