Patrick Hahn is Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, General Music Director of Sinfonieorchester und Oper Wuppertal and Principal Guest Conductor of Münchner Rundfunkorchester of the Bayerischer Rundfunk. He is one of the most sought after and exciting conductors of his generation.
In his last season as General Music Director in Wuppertal, Patrick Hahn presents Wagner’s monumental Ring cycle in concert across the season with an internationally renowned cast featuring Catherine Foster, Benjamin Bruns, Michael Kupfer-Radecky and Karen Cargill amongst others.
As a guest conductor in the 2025/26 season, Patrick Hahn makes his first appearances at Gewandhausorchester Leipzig with Sol Gabetta, Staatskapelle Dresden, WDR Sinfonieorchester with Ilya Gringolts and Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg with Timothy Ridout. Return visits include Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin with Fazil Say on a five-concert tour in China. Opera highlights include his debut at Deutsche Oper Berlin with Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus, Richard Strauss’ Intermezzo at Semperoper Dresden, and Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at Bayerische Staatsoper.
Previous seasons’ highlights include his first appearances at hr-Sinfonieorchester, Brussels Philharmonic with Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Anastasia Kobekina, RAI with Truls Mørk, and Staatsoper Hamburg with Wagner’s Parsifal. Successful return visits include Wiener Symphoniker in Vienna and on tour and Tonhalle Orchester Zürich.
In his second season as Principal Guest Conductor at the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Patrick Hahn was joined by Frank Dupree with his jazz trio for Gershwin’s Concerto in F in a programme which also saw Patrick Hahn on the piano for Antheil’s A Jazz Symphony. His other programmes include Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 and Elgar’s Cello Concerto with Kian Soltani alongside Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem and Scriabin’s Poem of Ecstasy. His collaboration with Münchner Rundfunkorchester continues with an all-Johann Strauss programme and Hans Werner Henze’s Requiem.
CD releases this season include an all-Gottfried von Einem album with Royal Scottish National Orchestra on Linn Records and Ethel Smyth’s opera Der Wald with Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal on the CPO label, marking the first time Der Wald is recorded in its original German language.
Aside from his work in classical music, Patrick Hahn accompanies himself on the piano singing cabaret songs by the Austrian satirist and composer Georg Kreisler. As a jazz pianist, he received awards from the Chicago Jazz Festival and the ‘Outstanding Soloist Award’ from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse as the best jazz pianist of the 37th Annual Jazz Festival.
