conductor
biography
Franz Schottky is Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Munich Kammerphilharmonie dacapo, which he has founded in 2000. With its own full-season subscription concerts series in the Herkules Hall the orchestra has secured a big core audience and a permanent place in the rich cultural life of Bavaria’s state capital and has also become a popular guest orchestra in Germany and abroad. For the Austrian Label Gramola Schottky and his orchestra recorded their first CD with works by Haydn together with violinist Thomas Albertus Irnberger, which has been nominated for the prestigious award of the German LP critics (Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik).
Franz Schottky has been invited regularly to conduct all over the world: as guest he has conducted renowned orchestras such as the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra dell'Arena di Verona, Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Filarmonica Gioachino Rossini di Pesaro, Orchestra Sinfonica Metropolitana di Bari, Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc, Capella Cracoviensis, Filarmonica Oltenia Craiova, Szolnok Symphony Orchestra, Kazakh State Chamber Orchestra "Academy of Soloists" and Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México OSEM. He has performed in venues such as Musikverein Vienna, Smetana Hall Prague, Liszt Academy Budapest, Henry Crown Hall Jerusalem and Gasteig Munich.
For many years now Schottky has shown particular dedication to the symphonic works of Anton Bruckner: in Nur-Sultan (Astana) he conducted the first performance of the 4th Symphony, in Kharkiv the first performance of the 6th Symphony as well as in Chișinău the first performances of the 3rd and 6th Symphony.
Many popular international soloists such as Natalia Gutman, Anna Tifu and Ingolf Turban appreciate Schottky as a very flexible and sensitive accompanist. This is also due to Schottky's special conducting technique which he has learned from his teacher Sergiu Celibidache, former musical director of the Munich Philharmonic orchestra.1991, at the age of 20, Schottky entered his conducting class and became one of his last and closest students until Celibidache's death in 1996. The teaching included the so called Musical Phenomenology, Celibidache's own music philosophy, which Schottky nowadays passes on as a guest lecturer (most recently at the Shanghai University and the Prague Conservatory).
Since 2014 Schottky is member of the jury of the Verona International Piano Competition. In 2019 Schottky has given his USA debut with Brahms's 2nd Symphony. In 2024 Schottky returned to the Orchestra dell'Arena di Verona with an all Brahms program and conducted Bruckner’s 6th Symphony in his first program with the Orquesta Juvenil Edoardo Mata de la UNAM.
www.franzschottky.de
