MEDIA
03/06/2024
Jumping-in and debut with the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne
More information about the program and tickets here.
23/05/2024
"German composer and conductor Oscar Jockel, born in Regensburg in 1995, demonstrated his skills in the Great Hall of the Vienna Musikverein at the beginning of May. He conducted the Vienna Symphony Orchestra with precision and temperament in equal measure in his debut as stand-in conductor for Joana Mallwitz, who had fallen ill."
ORF OE1
13/05/2024
"Jockel is one of those conductors whose gestures seem to create the music. Wherever and however the hands moved, the sound of the orchestra resounded there and then.
The Prague Philharmonia Orchestra under the direction of conductor Oscar Jockel offered several wonderful events in the eighth concert of its 30th anniversary season. (...) After the interval, the stage belonged to the orchestral presentation in Robert Schumann's Symphony No. 1 in B flat major op. 38. The first movement was pure joy, to which the conductor brought the music in impeccable symbiosis with the orchestra. Jockel is one of those conductors under whose gestures the music seems to emerge. Wherever and however the hands moved, the sound of the orchestra resounded there and then. Among the great moments of the performance were the colorful entries of individual instruments or even entire groups. For the score, perhaps everyone had studied the lines from Schumann's letter to conductor Wilhelm Taubert and kept them in mind: 'Could you breathe a little longing for spring into your orchestra as you play?
Klasika Plus, Rafael Brom
06/05/2024
"Oscar Jockel - A young conductor who makes people sit up and pay attention on the podium of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra
(...) He took over Mallwitz's program unchanged and how. Already in Beethoven's "Leonore" Overture No. 3, he made the audience sit up and take notice with his accurately placed accents, building up tension and making the music float. The coordination with the winds from the outside was fabulous. The Vienna Symphony Orchestra followed him with great concentration. Then Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto in E flat major. The soloist Francesco Piemontesi harmonized with the orchestra with his crystal-clear touches, played his cadenzas with care and only came up trumps during his extended encores. The qualities of this conductor could be heard in Paul Hindemith's symphony "Mathis der Maler", which the composer generated from his opera of the same name. It was clear why the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden orchestra brought Jockel to the podium. He savored the finest nuances of Hindemith's sound paintings, always paying attention to transparency and precision and was rightly applauded."
Der Kurier, Susanne Zobl
01/05/2024
Jumping-in and Debut with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Press release from the Wiener Musikverein:
"Unfortunately, Joana Mallwitz had to cancel her participation in the concerts on May 4 and 5 with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra for health reasons. We thank Oscar Jockel for taking over the conducting of the two concert
Ludwig van Beethoven
Leonoren-Ouvertüre Nr. 3, op. 72b
Konzert für Klavier und Orchester Nr. 5 Es-Dur, op. 73
Paul Hindemith
Symphonie „Mathis der Maler”
20/03/2024
Semperoper Dresden
Oscar Jockel returns to the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden in May 2024 for a new production of "Benvenuto Cellini" by Hector Berlioz at the Semperoper Dresden.
In his early opera "Benvenuto Cellini", which premiered in Paris in 1838, Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) creates a phenomenal work of art that makes one of the most important artists of the 16th century its protagonist: Benvenuto Cellini.
Hector Berlioz was known for his phenomenal and highly differentiated use of the instruments in his orchestra and found many admirers, including Richard Wagner. The varied score contains both large-scale tableaux with their rousing choral scenes and chamber theater situations that are uniquely orchestrated.
All information and dates can be found here.
10/03/2024
Johann Christian Bach's opera ZANAIDA at the Prinzregententheater in Munich
"...the piece, however, is a great pleasure to listen to. Not only because there are highly respectable to excellent soloists, but also because there is a hothead on the podium: Oscar Jockel, assistant to Kirill Petrenko with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, drives the Munich Radio Orchestra into the red zone. The music is played with constant excitement and a strong application of color. This is not only "historically informed", but above all enormously enjoyable."
Münchner Merkur, Markus Thiel
Photo: Wolf Silveri
14/02/2024
Documentary with Oscar Jockel and the Ensemble intercontemporain
This documentary provides insights into the unique and innovative project with the Ensemble intercontemporain under the direction of Oscar Jockel in collaboration with 35 dancers in a touching choreography by Noé Soulier. The project 'clocks & clouds' from 2023 was a tribute to the Hungarian composer György Ligeti and his music for his 100th anniversary year.
01/26/2024
The world premiere of 'floris glacialis' by Oscar Jockel in the ORF daily news
The day after the premiere of the work 'floris glacialis', ORF reported on its success at the Vienna Musikverein with the Vienna Concert-Verein Orchestra under the direction of Oscar Jockel.
01/26/2024
A Sensitive Radio Portrait
OE1 'Intrada' of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ORF created a sensitive portrait on the radio about the work of Oscar Jockel. Philipp Weismann was in conversation with the composer and conductor, which you can listen to in full length here.
Photo: Tom Thiele
01/22/2024
»Reality only comes into being at the moment when I
create something, when I enter into a connection with people.«
Oscar Jockel in an interview with the magazine 'Musikfreunde' of the Vienna Musikverein. Read the complete article by Ulrike Lampert here.
16/01/2024
Munich's Prinzregententheater
Oscar Jockel takes over the musical direction at the Prinzregententheater for a special opera production: Zanaida by Johann Christian Bach, who, as the youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach, achieved worldwide fame as an avant-garde composer of his time with his gallant music. Singers from the renowned Theaterakademie August Everding will perform and the Munich Radio Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio will play under the direction of Oscar Jockel.
12/01/2024
Premiere of the Month: Oscar Jockel's new work
The Strad magazine chose the piece 'floris glacialis' (2024) as the premiere of the month. You can read the whole article here.
10/11/2023
Debut of Oscar Jockel at the Vienna Musikverein
Oscar Jockel conducts the Tonkünstler Orchestra in the Golden Hall.
04/11/2023
Oscar Jockel with Lisa Batiashvili at the Philharmonie Berlin
Lisa Batiashvili is the Berliner Philharmoniker's Artist in Residence for the 2023/24 season. She performed the first concert of her residency with the Karajan Academy.
09/10/2023
Portrait concert in the Berlin Philharmonie
Music from all directions Oscar Jockel presents: 1615 to 2023
Oscar Jockel and the musicians of the Karajan Academy cover a good 400 years of music history in today's concert, from the Renaissance to the present day. Giovanni Gabrieli's four-choir motet, which can be heard instrumentally today and was published in 1615, opens the concert with a rich surround sound. The world premiere of Oscar Jockel's paths in the sky showcases Jockel's dual talent - he is not only a gifted and ambitious conductor, but also an equally gifted composer. Veronika Eberle is in no way inferior to him in her skills on her instrument, the Stradivarius "Ex Ries 1693", in Alban Berg's Violin Concerto from 1935, which he dedicated to the memory of an angel. The musical tour de force through the centuries ends brilliantly with Beethoven's rhythm-driven Seventh Symphony.
06/10/2023
NEW CD RELEASE
"Du holde Kunst" - Lieder and instrumental music by Franz Schubert
Well-known and lesser-known composers have repeatedly arranged Franz Schubert's piano songs with orchestra. These versions are in no way intended to call into question the powerful quality of the originals - they merely illuminate them in a different way and/or attempt to make them more suitable for performance on a larger scale: When the art song cannot be performed in an intimate salon or chamber music hall, but should make an impact in a large concert hall. For the new BR-KLASSIK CD, baritone Benjamin Appl has compiled nineteen of these arrangements from the 19th and 20th centuries. The Munich Radio Orchestra under the direction of Oscar Jockel provides a subtle and appropriate accompaniment.
01/09/2023
»Sometimes I feel like a chef«
A conversation with Oscar Jockel
Oscar Jockel doesn’t like to be categorised. He is successful as both a composer and conductor; he has a French mobile phone number, an old house in a remote Austrian mountain village and, now also a flat in Berlin. He assists chief conductor Kirill Petrenko at the Berliner Philharmoniker. For the past two years, he has held a conducting fellowship at the Berliner Philharmoniker’s Karajan Akademie, and is now premiering his new work paths in the sky with them.
(Photo: Peter Adamik)
05/06/2023
World premiere at the Brucknerhaus Linz with the Quatuor Diotima
“
Sensational music by Oscar Jockel
(...) "Wie weiße Früchte eines Zeitbaums" for string quartet and electronics skillfully and fascinatingly combines sounds "from other spaces, from other heavens": electronic sounds as a necessity, which led to the strings interacting intensively with the digitally generated sounds. Here, too, Oscar Jockel proved to be an ingeniously creative organizer of both worlds. (...)
Conclusion: An absolutely extraordinary evening of chamber music with a sensational world premiere."
Oberösterreichische Nachrichten
01/05/2023
Announcement for the portrait concert of Oscar Jockel at the Berlin Philharmonie on 9/10/2023
Oscar Jockel is absorbed in music - both as a conductor and as a composer: "When I make music, I have the feeling that I no longer exist," says the conducting scholarship holder of the Karajan Academy and musical assistant to Kirill Petrenkos. In this portrait concert, the Regensburg-born composer can show the full range of his skills - with performances of baroque music, Alban Berg's touching violin concerto (soloist: Veronika Eberle), Beethoven's stirring Seventh Symphony and the world premiere of his new composition paths in the sky.
27/04/2023
07/04/2023
SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG
The 'Westbam Meets Wagner' project, for which Oscar Jockel wrote a 90-minute orchestral score and took over the conducting, was described by the Süddeutsche Zeitung as one of the most spectacular events of this year's Salzburg Easter Festival.
Click here for the full review.
Photo: Erika Mayer
05/04/2023
Oscar Jockel receives the Herbert von Karajan Preis
Oscar Jockel received the Herbert von Karajan Prize for his work to date as a composer and conductor, which was presented to him by Arabel Karajan and Nikolaus Bachler during the 2023 Salzburg Easter Festival. The previous prize winners were the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden (2022), Hilary Hahn (2021), Janine Jansen (2020), Mariss Jansons (2019), Sol Gabetta (2018) and Daniil Trifonov (2017).
Photo: Zura Gvantseladze
12/02/2023
Easter Festival Baden-Baden: Die Frau ohne Schatten
Oscar Jockel takes over for Kirill Petrenko at the Berliner Philharmoniker as rehearsal and musical assistant for Richard Strauss' monumental opera 'Die Frau ohne Schatten'.
Premiere is on 1 April 2023. Click here for tickets and more info.
04/01/2023
Ensemble intercontemporain: innovative dance project with György Ligeti’s music
Oscar Jockel can be experienced in four concerts with the Ensemble intercontemporain, which has set up an extraordinary and unique project with Noé Soullier as choreographer. 40 dancers move in a standing flow of time like Ligeti's micropolyphony to his iridescent music.
Click here for tickets and more info.
Photo: Anne-Elise Grosbois
01/01/2023
Spectacular world premiere of 'ash is white. (Oscar Jockel) for three orchestras and percussion.
The Bruckner Orchestra Linz, under the direction of its principal conductor Markus Poschner, together with percussion soloist Christoph Sietzen, premiered Oscar Jockel's monumental work 'asche ist weiß.' for the New Year's Concert at the Brucknerhaus Linz.
The work was commissioned by the Brucknerhaus Linz as part of Oscar Jockel's time as Composer in Residence in the 2020/21 season.
Click here for score and recording.
Photo: Wolf Silveri
05/12/2022
Franz Schubert: CD recording with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester
Oscar Jockel recorded a CD of orchestrated works by Franz Schubert with Benjamin Appl (baritone) and the Munich Radio Orchestra. Rarities, well-known works and first recordings will be heard.
Jockel was interviewed about this in BR Klassik's Sweet Spot. Listen to it here.
17/11/2022
Oscar Jockel signed with Opus 3 Artists (General Management)
Daniel Lebon (Artist Manager) and Miriam Goldmann (Assistant Artist Manager) will support Oscar Jockel in his work from now on.
All enquiries to:
Dr. Daniel-Frédéric Lebon
dlebon@opus3artists.com
Tel.: +49 (0) 30 889 101 55
Mob.: +49 (0) 160 66 00 756
Assistant Artist Manager
Miriam Goldmann
Tel.: +49 (0) 30 8891 0153
Mobile: +49 (0) 171 5477 255
15/10/2022
Oscar Jockel will make his debut at the Salzburg Easter Festival 2023
On 6 April 2023, Oscar Jockel will join Westbam and the Mendelssohn Academy of the Gewandhaus Orchestra for an extraordinary project at the Felsenreitschule.
25/09/2022
Debut with the Berliner Symphoniker
On 25 September Oscar Jockel will perform 'The Planets' by Gustav Holst together with the Berliner Symphoniker and the Max Reger Choir.
Click here for tickets and more info.
Photo: Tom Thiele
12/09/2021
The Oberösterreichisches Volksblatt on the opening of the International Brucknerfest 2022
11/09/2022
Oscar Jockel conducts the opening concert at the International Brucknerfest Linz 2022
Anton Bruckner's path to modernity will be shown in a radical programme. In addition to the fragmentary final movement of Bruckner's last symphony, composed shortly before his death, groundbreaking bridges to modernity will be built with works by Olivier Messiaen, György Kurtag and a world premiere by the Austrian composer Klaus Lang.
Click here for tickets and more info.
Photo: Oliver Erenyi
10/07/2022
Oscar Jockel as assistant conductor to Sir Simon Rattle at the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Jockel took over as assistant conductor at the BRSO for Sir Simon Rattle at short notice to work with the orchestra for this year's 'Klassik am Odeonsplatz'.
Photo: Astrid Ackermann
27/04/2022
CD production at WDR with Tabea Zimmermann and Berlioz 'Harold en Italie' and the BJO
Together with Tabea Zimmermann and the Bundesjugendorchester a recording was made at the WDR with Hector Berlioz 'Harold en Italie' and Beethoven's 6th Symphony.
Here you can see the last take of the recording days in the WDR radio studio in Cologne.
17/12/2021
Winner of the International Composition Competition "FRANCO DONATONI"
International Meeting for Young Composers
Oscar Jockel, together with two other composers, has been named one of the winners of the "Franco Donatoni" composition competition announced by the Divertimento Ensemble. In addition to a commission for 2023, he will be invited to Milan to attend a performance of his short opera "lob des schattens. rewriting.”
06/12/2021
Composition by Oscar Jockel
asche ist weiß. flocke. [ash is white. flake.] (Bonn version)
Live recording - Beethovenfest Bonn - 29.08.2021
Campus-Projekt 2021
Bundesjugendorchester (BJO / German National Youth Orchestra), musicians from the European Federation of National Youth Orchestras (EFNYO) and from the E-MEX-Ensemble.
Oscar Jockel (Conductor)
Bonn version: reduced and shorter version of the original composition "asche ist weiß." (Linz version), originally commissioned by the Brucknerhaus Linz 2020.
Recording by Deutsche Welle (DW)
Photography by Lucas Jockel
More info about the piece can be found here.
05/11/2021
New CD release
The piece for violin and piano "all the darkness we can hear - all the silence we can see" was released by GRAMOLA recorded by Elena Denisova and Alexei Kornienko.
Now available on all streaming services and on gramola.at
27/10/2021
Interview with the conductor Oscar Jockel
Oscar Jockel from Regensburg has won the conducting competition of the Karajan Academy. Now he is allowed to assist the chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, Kirill Petrenko, for two years. BR-KLASSIK spoke with him.
24/10/2021
Oscar Jockel and Christian Blex both impressed in today's selection process for the "Siemens Conductors Scholarship" of the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic at the Philharmonie and will share the prize: the conductors will both receive a 2-year scholarship, during which they will, among other things, each assist the chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, Kirill Petrenko, for one year and take over the conducting of their own portrait concert with the chamber orchestra of the Karajan Academy at the Philharmonie Berlin.
15/09/2021
Oscar Jockel wins the selection conducting at the Philharmonie de Paris for the conducting assistantship with the Ensemble intercontemporain and its musical director Matthias Pintscher.
Starting in February 2022, Oscar Jockel will take up his position as assistant conductor with the renowned Ensemble intercontemporain in Paris for two seasons, together with Nicoló Umberto Foron.
More info at concertclassic.com
29/08/2021
Beethovenfest Bonn 2021 with the Bundesjugendorchester (German National Youth Orchestra)
The Campus Project, which brings together young musicians from all over the world as part of an intercultural exchange at the Beethovenfest Bonn, celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2021. Originally, a performance of Stockhausen's legendary "Gruppen" for three orchestras was planned well in advance for this occasion, with Oscar Jockel being one conductor of three needed for a live performance. Due to the Corona pandemic, however, the three orchestras with musicians from all over the world did not take place, so that Oscar Jockel instead conducted the rehearsals with the new concert programme, which, however, only requires one conductor, with the Bundesjugendorchester alone at first and then handed it over to Johannes Kalitzke.
In addition, the Bundesjugendorchester (German National Youth Orchestra) played a spontaneous premiere of the piece "quasi" by Jockel, who conducted the piece himself in the last concert of the Campus Project at the Beethovenfest Bonn, as an encore.
16/08/2021
Winner of an “Aspen Conducting Prize 2021”
Oscar Jockel was awarded an "Aspen Conducting Prize" by music director Robert Spano as a Conducting Fellow of the prestigious American Conducting Academy within the Aspen Music Festival 2021 and has been invited back for next year's Aspen Music Festival 2022 to conduct in several concerts throughout the whole summer (22/06/22 – 21/08/2022).
18/06/2021
Mahan Esfahani premieres "honey.sea.light" for harpsichord and electronics at the Brucknerhaus Linz
© Reinhard Winkler
Ohne Titel, Alberte Barsacq (* 1945), 1997
18/06/2021
!!! CD publication !!!
The piece for organ solo ”Denn er hatte noch eine dringende Verabredung mit den drei Eichen und den zwei Bächen am Fuß des goldenen Berges.” [Because he still had an urgent appointment with the three oak trees and the two streams at the foot of the golden mountain.] has been published by OehmsClassics together with a world premiere recording of Anton Bruckner’s 1. Symphony for organ performed by Hansjörg Albrecht.
Now available on all streaming platforms.
31/03/2021
Acceptance into the DIRIGENTENFORUM
Oscar Jockel has passed the selection process and has been accepted into the prestigious DIRIGENTENFORUM of the German Music Council, where he will work with outstanding orchestras in Germany and conducting mentors within the next two years.
29/11/2020
Mozart Requiem in the Great Hall of the Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg
On the occasion of the anniversary of W. A. Mozart's death, Oscar Jockel conducts his unfinished Requiem in the original fragment version in the final concert of the International DIALOGE Festival together with the Camerata Salzburg, the Bachchor Salzburg, Marie-Dominique Ryckmanns (soprano), Patricia Nolz (mezzo-soprano), Bryan Lopez Gonzalez (tenor) and Douglas Williams (bass) in the Great Hall of the Mozarteum Foundation.
Jockel interpolates the program with a world premiere by Klaus Lang, a premiere of his own, and works by Giacinto Scelsi, Guillaume de Machaut, David Lang and György Kurtág, among others.
(cancelled due to the covid pandemic)
24/10/2020
Jumping in for Sylvain Cambreling at Klangforum Wien
As a cover conductor for Sylvain Cambreling, Oscar Jockel conducted Klangforum Wien at short notice in rehearsals for Wien Modern with Olivier Messiaen's "Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum" for 34 wind instruments and 6 percussionists at the Vienna Konzerthaus.
23/10/2020
A live composition at the Lentos Museum of Modern Art in Linz
In the 2020/21 season, the Brucknerhaus Linz will be a guest at Linz museums with an innovative format that combines short concert, live composition and guided exhibition visit. The model for this is Les Vendredis, Quartet Fridays, which the Russian music lover, publisher and patron Mitrofan Belaieff organized every Friday in his house in St. Petersburg since the early 1880s. At the LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz, the Atalante Quartet presents a selection of pieces written for or at these soirées, including a string quartet that four composers gave to Belaieff, the man of the house, for his 50th birthday in 1886 and that makes his name resound in the form of the tone sequence B-la-f. The live composition, whose premiere will conclude the evening, is contributed by Oscar Jockel.
(Text: Jan David Schmitz)
Short rehearsal with the Atalante Quartet before the premiere immediately after the completion of Jockel’s string quartet composition.
© Reinhard Winkler
05/09/2020
Opening of the sound installation at the Taubenmarkt in Linz
"there is no difference between bruckner and collapsing buildings"
It's easy to think about the past and it's easy to think about the future. But it is very difficult to be in the here and now. But it's the only reality we have.
Hourly: by chance either Bruckner or collapsing buildings - the surely occurring but uncontrollable chance.
Always: the screened and processed sound of the Taubenmarkt in real time - the unpredictable but perceivable reality.
Duration: daily from 5/9 - 11/10/20
Excerpt of the self-programmed software for the live processing of the recorded sounds of the miked square and the playback of the signals to the distributed loudspeakers all over the square with the help of a Pure Data patch.
© Reinhard Winkler.
Nightly installation of microphones and speakers throughout the entire Taubenmarkt.
03/06/2020
Announcement as first Composer in Residence at the Brucknerhaus Linz for the season 2020-21.
"Passion, everyone can do that!" wrote Arnold Schönberg in 1914 to the then 22-year-old conductor Hermann Scherchen, who had dared to perform the composer's 1st Chamber Symphony. And he added: "But intimacy, the chaste, higher form of feeling, seems to be denied to most people. That is quite understandable; for the feeling underlying it must be felt, and not merely represented!" The German composer and conductor Oscar Jockel, just 24 years old, who won the organ composition competition of Anton Bruckner Private University and Brucknerhaus Linz in June 2019 and whom the Brucknerhaus is now promoting as Composer in Residence with a series of composition commissions, has obviously understood this for a long time ... READ MORE
30/05/2020
For 13 singers and electronics.
Composition for the Opera Studio of the University Mozarteum. Composed and performed in isolation during the Corona-Pandemic 2020.
26/01/2020
Press review Hildesheimer Allgemeine Nachrichten. Symphonic concert in the “Theater für Niedersachsen”.
24/11/2019
Press review Salzburger Nachrichten. Stiftung Mozarteum DIALOGE 2019.
12/06/2019
Award (1st prize) of the Bruckner Composition Competition for Organ 2019 in Linz.
© Reinhard Winkler
01/02/2019
Visiting professor at the Indian Insitute of Technology in Hyderabad, lecture series about "music and science".
23/10/2018
Composer's portrait on the radio OE1 ORF
03/01/2018
Announcement of Lob des Schattens [praise of the shadow]
Opera in Japanese with light architecture
29/12/2017
20/12/2017
07/08/2017
04/07/2017