Conductor and artistic director Hartmut Rohde

Conductor Hartmut Rohde, © Josep Molina — © Josep Molina

From 2013-2017 Hartmut Rohde was the conductor and artistic director of the Leopoldinum Chamber Orchestra Wroclaw. The label cpo recently released highly-acclaimed CDs with works by Laks, Jarnach and Erich Wolfgang Korngold, which were awarded five stars by rbb Kultur.

Further conducting has taken him to the Biel Symphony Orchestra, the Lemberg Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of the Academia di Cervo, the Swedish Aurora Chamber Orchestra and the Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra. He has given guest concerts in the Berlin Philharmonie, the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, the Wratislawia Cantans Festival and the Casals Festival in France.

With the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra Budapest and the Hamburg Camerata, he conducted concerts in 2019 in the Konzerthaus Vienna and the Hamburg Musikhalle, among other places. A recording of Hans Gal’s piano concerto will be released in 2020 again with cpo. In September 2019, Rohde appeared as a guest conductor and soloist at the opening of the festival for new music with the Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra. In November 2019, Rohde conducted Beethoven’s 2nd Symphony and Mozart’s Magic Flute Overture with the Orquestra Filharmonica Projeto in Sao Paolo. He will interpret Brahms‘ 2nd Symphony with this orchestra in the year 2021, among other works. In May 2020, Rohde will again direct a chamber orchestra of the UdK Berlin as part of the crescendo festival with works by Tchaikovsky and Mozart.

In 2022, Rohde will conduct the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra at the International Music Festival in Seoul, and he will also tour through the most important German music centers with the Seoul Virtuosi. Their soloist will be the artistic director Kyung-Sun Lee, violin.