Mario Venzago
Zurich, Switzerland
He was born in Zurich.
- 11 years leading the Bern Symphony
- Chief in Indianapolis and Gothenburg
- All ten Bruckner symphonies, CPO
- Completed Schubert's Unfinished
- Grand Prix du Disque, Diapason d'Or
“Venzago shapes each phrase into a narrative of its own.”
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He has been chief conductor or general music director of the Indianapolis Symphony, the Gothenburg Symphony, the Basque National Orchestra, the Basel Symphony, the Graz Opera and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie. For eleven years, until 2021, he led the Bern Symphony Orchestra. He has conducted the Berlin Philharmonic, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Philadelphia and Boston orchestras and the NHK Symphony, and returns regularly to the St.
Petersburg Philharmonic. For CPO he recorded all ten Bruckner symphonies, a project he called The Other Bruckner. For Sony Classical he completed Schubert's Unfinished and recorded it with the Kammerorchester Basel.
His discs have won the Grand Prix du Disque, the Diapason d'Or and an Edison. He composes more and more: a violin concerto in 2021, a cello concerto in 2026. In April 2027 he conducts the Oregon Symphony in Berg, Schumann, Liszt and Strauss's Don Quixote with Zlatomir Fung.
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