o.Univ.-Prof. Stefan Vladar
Born in Vienna Stefan Vladar is one of Austria’s most remarkable musical personalities. He performs regularly as a conductor and a pianist in music centres in Europe, America and Asia.
Stefan Vladar was appointed Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra in 2008. In this season Stefan Vladar will also conduct the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, the Portland Symphony Orchestra, the Bankok Symphony Orchestra, the Cairo Symphony Orchestra and the Tschaikowsky Symphony Orchestra Moscow. As a pianist he will perform e.g. with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Prague and the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz and play solo recitals in Vienna, Zagreb, Munich and Budapest amongst others.
In autumn 2015 the Austrian Label CAPRICCIO is starting a close partnership with Stefan Vladar and will first release a CD with piano solo compositions by Maurice Ravel. In 2016 a 4CD-Box with the complete recording of Beethoven´s solo concertos - 5 piano concertos, triple concerto, violin concerto, 2 violin romances – will follow, Stefan Vladar performing as a pianist and conducting his Vienna Chamber Orchestra. In addition, a recording of Schubert’s three major song cycles is being prepared with Bo Skovhus.
In 1985 he won the 1st prize of the prestigious International Beethoven Piano Competition in Vienna. Since then, he has been performing under the baton of conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Vladimir Fedosejev, Christopher Hogwood, Louis Langrée, Sir Neville Marriner, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Simon Rattle and Christian Thielemann in appearances with numerous orchestras such as Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Bayerische Staatsorchester, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokio, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Tonhalle-Orchestra Zurich.
As a conductor he has worked with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, Residence Orchestra Den Haag, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Tschaikowsky Symphony Orchestra Moscow, Stuttgart Philharmonic, RSO Budapest, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra as well as the chamber orchestras of Basel, Cologne, Prague and Zurich among others. He has performed together with soloists such as Tzimon Barto, Janine Jansen, Isabelle van Keulen, Viktoria Mullova, Julian Rachlin, Heinrich Schiff and with singers such as Ian Bostridge, Johan Botha, Jonas Kaufmann, Angelika Kirchschlager, Thomas Quasthoff, Ramon Vargas and Pretty Yende. Stefan has a close long term musical cooperation with the baritone Bo Skovhus.
