Chief Conductor and Artistic Director: Orquestra de València
Designated Chief Conductor: Taipei Symphony Orchestra
Chairman Richard-Strauss Gesellschaft
Music Director of the Orquestra de València and Artistic Advisor of the Palau de la Música València since the 2022/23 season, the distinguished conductor Alexander Liebreich, has previously held the positions of Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra (2018-2022), Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (NOSPR / 2012-2019 season), and Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Munich Chamber Orchestra (2006–2016). A German conductor with Moravian-Jewish roots, Liebreich has also been Chairman of the Richard-Strauss-Gesellschaft since 2018, following Wolfgang Sawallisch and Brigitte Fassbaender in this position.
His extensive career has seen him as guest conductor with many prestigious orchestras including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Munich Philharmonic, Bamberg Symphony, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, Dresden Philharmonic, St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra and Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich. Recent and upcoming highlights include debuts at the Grafenegg Festival, George Enescu Festival, La Folle Journée in Warsaw, the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie and the Gulbenkian Orchestra Lisbon, He regularly performs with distinguished soloists such as Lisa Batiashvili, Veronika Eberle, Krystian Zimerman, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Gautier Capuçon, Alban Gerhardt, Leila Josefowicz, and Isabelle Faust. On the opera stage his repertoire has included Enescu’s Oedipe and Otmar Schoeck’s Penthisilea for Oper Frankfurt, Massenet’s Cendrillon at the Grand-Théâtre du Luxembourg, and Madama Butterfly for the Netherlands Reisopera, and he has led concert performances of major repertoire from Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Gluck’s Orfeo ed Eurydice to Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress and Strauss’s Salome and Elektra.
The 24/25 season sees him bringing signature symphonic and choral repertoire to the Orquestra de Valencia, including Strauss’s Eine Alpensinfonie and Also Sprach Zarathustra, Zemlinsky’s Lyrische Sinfonie, Mendelssohn’s 3rd, Mahler’s 9th and Bruckner’s 7th symphonies, Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra and Wagner’s Die Walkure. He appears as guest conductor with the Orchestre de l’Auvergne, the George Enescu Philharmonic and the Taipei Symphony, and leads a tour of Hong Kong and Korea with the Sinfonia Varsovia. Recently he opened the season of the MDR Sinfonieorchester in Leipzig, and returned to the Antwerp Symphony and the Japan and Brno Philharmonic Orchestras, in repertoire ranging from John Adams, Beethoven and Janacek, to Gubaidulina and Weinberg.