Conductor

Austrian conductor Vinzenz Praxmarer has established himself as a dynamic and versatile opera and concert conductor. As artistic director and founder of the Divertimento Viennese Orchestra, he has presented unique programmes focusing on the brilliant music of the Viennese fin de siècle and lesser-known works by Jewish composers. Praxmarer is known for his innovative concert planning and passionate interpretations, which have earned him regular invitations to prestigious institutions such as the Salzburg Festival.
In 2024, Vinzenz Praxmarer conducted concerts with the Tonkünstler Orchestra at the Wiener Musikverein, the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra in Ankara, the Wiener Kammerorchester in Rabat, and with the Divertimento Viennese Orchestra at the Wiener Musikverein, Brucknerhaus Linz, Forum am Schlosspark in Ludwigsburg, the Salzburg Festival, and the Salzkammergut Festwochen Gmunden. He also made his debut at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt with Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet and directed a production of Korngold’s Die Stumme Serenade at the Kulturfabrik Helfenberg. At the end of 2024, he made his debut at the Tiroler Festspiele in Erl with Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and at the Strauss Festival Orchestra with gala concerts at the Wiener Konzerthaus and in Udine. In 2025, he received invitations to the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, and the Macedonian National Opera in Skopje. In autumn 2025, he took over the direction of the newly founded Orchestra Academy at the Tiroler Festspiele in Erl, a collaboration that will continue in 2026.
In 2006, he made his operatic conducting debut at the Lehár Festival in Bad Ischl, where he remained as Musical Director until 2011. His artistic work in the operetta genre is documented by three world premiere recordings, which have been released on the cpo label: Fatinitza (Franz von Suppè), Der fidele Bauer (Leo Fall), Frasquita (Franz Lehár). Other debuts include the Wiener Volksoper, Landestheater Bregenz, Theater Bern, Theater St. Gallen, Opéra national de Paris, Theater Chemnitz, and Linzer Musiktheater. From 2013 to 2015, he was the conductor of the Children’s Opera at the Vienna State Opera.
In the symphonic field, he has been invited to conduct renowned orchestras, including the Latvian National Orchestra in Riga, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Tchaikovsky Orchestra in Moscow, the Tonkünstler-Orchester, the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra del Friuli Venezia Giulia, the Musikkollegium Winterthur, the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, the Wiener Kammerorchester, the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra Ankara.
Vinzenz Praxmarer completed his conducting studies at the Vienna University of Music and Arts with Prof Georg Mark. He subsequently worked as an assistant to Franz Welser-Möst, Kirill Petrenko, Philippe Jordan, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Christoph Eschenbach, Valery Gergiev and Marc Albrecht, and was a study director at the Theater an der Wien, the Salzburg Festival, La Scala in Milan, the Opéra national de Lyon and the Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam. Praxmarer has a close working relationship with the Vienna Philharmonic Summer Academy.